01/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday, Eurostat took a decision on the sectoral classification of a state owned real estate corporation in Austria, the Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft (BIG) and on the treatment of the transfer of government real estate to BIG. The transfer will not be treated as a market sale but as a restructuring in the context of improved management of state owned real estate. Moreover, Eurostat decided that BIG is an institutional unit and is to be classified in the...