General government (S.13)

2.68 Definition:

The sector general government (S.13) includes all institutional units which are other non-market producers (see paragraph 3.26) whose output is intended for individual and collective consumption, and mainly financed by compulsory payments made by units belonging to other sectors, and/or all institutional units principally engaged in the redistribution of national income and wealth.

2.69 The institutional units included in sector S.13 are the following:

1. general government entities (excluding public producers organised as public corporations or, by virtue of special legislation, recognised as independent legal entities, or quasi-corporations, when any of these are classified in the non-financial or financial sectors) which administer and finance a group of activities, principally providing non-market goods and services, intended for the benefit of the community ;
2. non-profit institutions recognised as independent legal entities which are other non-market producers and which are controlled and mainly financed by general government;
3. autonomous pension funds if the two requirements of paragraph 2.74 are met.