any provision of funds to the public sector resulting or likely to result in a debit balance
bank overdraft - an agreed sum of money which by arrangement a bank allows a customers to overdraw his account, i.e. to run into debt to the bank by drawing more than the amount standing to his credit in the account
Overdraft facilities or any other type of credit facility with the ECB or with the central banks of the Member States (hereinafter referred to as 'national central banks') in favour of Community institutions or bodies, central governments, regional, local or other public authorities, other bodies governed by public law, or public undertakings of Member States shall be prohibited, as shall the purchase directly from them by the ECB or national central banks of debt instruments.
