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Euros for all Member countries of the European Monetary
Union (EMU). Data relating to years prior to entry into the EMU have been converted from the former national currency using the appropriate irrevocable conversion rate. The presentation facilitates comparisons within a country over time and ensures that the historical evolution (i.e. growth rates) is preserved. However, pre-EMU euros are a notional unit and are not normally suitable to form area aggregates or to carry out cross-country comparisons. In order to clearly make the distinction between the so-obtained euro denomination of the national currency and the Euro which is the currency of the EMU, countries' units are expressed as follows : 'EUR (year of accession, ISO currency code, euro)’ e.g. EUR (1999 ATS euro) for Austria, EUR (2001 GRD euro) for Greece, etc. The conversion rates for the participating currencies are reproduced below.
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