(3)On 10 March 2016 the Governing Council decided to further expand the abovementioned asset purchase programmes and initiate a corporate sector purchase programme (CSPP), as part of the single monetary policy and in pursuit of its price stability objective. This decision was taken in order to further strengthen the pass-through of the Eurosystem's asset purchases to the financing conditions of the real economy, and in order to provide, in conjunction with the other non-standard monetary policy measures in place, further monetary policy accommodation and contribute to a return of inflation rates to levels below, but close to, 2 % over the medium term.