Member States shall review the types of illegal economic activities that fall within the production boundary of ESA 2010 with the view to making exhaustiveness adjustments to GDP where appropriate and review the methods used for those adjustments to ensure their reliability. These reviews shall be made at least every five years, starting with the 2025-2029 GNI verification cycle.
The review of the types of illegal activities referred to in Article 18 shall cover the following activities:
(a)
prostitution (if illegal according to national legislation);
(b)
production and trafficking of drugs (if illegal according to national legislation);
(c)
smuggling of alcohol and tobacco products;
(d)
all other types of illegal economic activity that are deemed quantitatively significant.
Member States shall describe in the GNI Inventory, starting with the GNI Inventory following the 2025-2029 GNI verification cycle, the results of the analysis referred to in Article 18. The GNI Inventory shall include a justification and description of related modifications, where appropriate. If adjustments for specific illegal economic activities are made, the data sources and method of calculation shall be described and the value of the adjustment shall be stated.