Services in older documents also perfunctions (services)
Action performed by a natural or legal person to a customer or an object of the customer in return for appropriate remuneration. – In contrast to its performance in kind, a service is not storable and transferable. The production and consumption usually coincide in time (uno-actu principle; Uno-actu principle). In principle, services are not tangible; however, they may contain tangible components, such as a carrier medium on which the result of the service is transmitted. The nature of the service is referred to as service quality. – In German-language statistics, “goods” is the generic term, and “merchandise” and “services” are the respective subordinate terms. It is therefore logically incorrect to speak of “goods and services”, as is repeatedly done (and by whom!). – See banking services, services, non-market, services inflation, financial services, good, public, goods, securities ancillary services. – Cf. ECB Monthly Bulletin of May 2007, pp. 82 f. (difficulties of accurately measuring services), pp. 90 f. (indicators for measuring competition in the services sector), pp. 93 f. (EU Directive on Services in the Internal Market), Cf. ECB Monthly Bulletin of April 2008, pp. 37 ff. (share of services in the HICP [= 40.9 percent]; individual subsectors; sensitivity to inflation; overviews), ECB Monthly Bulletin of May 2008, pp. 65 ff. (breakdown by sector; important overviews 1999 to 2008), ECB Monthly Bulletin of July 2008, pp. 87 ff. (textbook presentation on the services sector in general and in the euro area in particular; many overviews), Deutsche Bundesbank Monthly Report of December 2008, p. 42 f. (change in prices for services within EMU and Germany since 1999), ECB Monthly Report of January 2009, p. 41 ff. (higher inflation rate explained for services versus goods; overviews), ECB Monthly Bulletin of May 2011, p. 66 ff. (exchange of services within euro area countries; trade in services between euro area and the rest of the world; numerous overviews; assessment with regard to competitiveness), ECB Monthly Bulletin of March 2014, p. 64 ff. (impact of service prices on the HICP; overviews).
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