In that sense, it is thanks to another one-off factor.
She asked Treasury minister Danny Alexander if that should not have been excluded as a one-off factor but was told that there were one-off sales included in the figures every year.
Speaking on RTL Radio, Moscovici blamed one-off factors such as slowing aircraft orders (the Paris Air Show, in June, typically delivers a boost to industry), saying: The productive forces are starting up again, production is recovering We knew the third quarter would mark a pause, it's not a surprise, it's not an indicator of decline, it's not a recession.
The deficit figures are harder to analyse because of the one-off factors (Royal Mail pension fund, the 'profits' on quantitative easing, etc), but they show that Britain faces a longer struggle to really get the debt 'under control'.
Chancellor George Osborne said the figures show "we are on the right track" but the bounce-back may have been driven by one-off factors such as the Olympics.
By contrast, the Opposition claims this is an artificial strength due to one-off factors,.
To be sure, there were some one-off factors at play.
"There will be quite a punchy number for growth for the quarter, but all from one-off factors," he said.
Output boomed in the second quarter thanks partly to one-off factors, such as the rebuilding of firms' stocks.
Many of the problems appear to be caused by unexpected maintenance costs and other one-off factors.
Stripping out this and other one-off factors, the group's effective tax rate would have been 17%, Shire said.
