Budget transparency and oversight Sample Clauses

Budget transparency and oversight. Improvement of the budget process and ensuring an efficient and transparent management and oversight of public finances are among the key priorities of the Government. The extent and ease with which citizens can access comprehensible information on budget cycle and contribute to the process is still insufficient. Budget transparency, as the full disclosure of all relevant fiscal information in a timely and systematic manner, remains a challenge. Budget oversight, though legally regulated and defined, is not efficiently implemented.  Budget Transparency Currently, the Ministry of Finance prepares only a Medium-Term Fiscal Framework (MTFF), which sets out aggregate fiscal targets and projections. There is no Medium Term Budgetary Framework (MTBF) and no Medium-term expenditure framework (MTEF) which should be prepared on annual basis. Programme classification has to be improved and clear programme indicators defined. The budget information available is not well organised since there are various publications which are difficult to trace among the sites and portals of the key bodies involved in the budget cycle - Ministry of Finance, Government, budget users, Parliament etc. Modernisation and integration of the PFM IT model, which will have a positive impact on the quality of the data available, is not finalised yet. In addition, improved transparency could be ensured through the introduction of one single entry point and software solutions with possibilities for tracking data per year/programme/institution. Currently, insufficient data are available on preparation and execution of the budget and follow-up of audit reports. In regard to comprehensiveness and transparency of budgetary data provided, the current annual budget law includes a considerable amount of fiscal information, though significant gaps remain, namely: lack of information on deficit financing, no information on financial assets, lack of comparative data on the prior year’s outturn, breakdown of the current year’s budget by functional and administrative classification and no estimates of the budgetary impact of major revenue policy changes. The Ministry of Finance provides very detailed information on the annual budget and its final accounts for the central government, but the presentation and format of the data is not easy to follow. Although budget users are required to report details of their financial assets and liabilities, this information is not included in the consolidated statements ...
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