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Open Budget Survey. Romania. Virginia Comsa Deputy director general. OPEN BUDGET SURVEY 2015 - ROMANIA. CHANGE IN TRANSPARENCY OVER TIME. PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF BUDGET DOCUMENTS. Public Documents. IMPROVING TRANSPARENCY.
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Open Budget Survey Romania Virginia Comsa Deputy director general
OPEN BUDGET SURVEY 2015 - ROMANIA Romania - Ministry of Public Finance
CHANGE IN TRANSPARENCY OVER TIME Romania - Ministry of Public Finance
PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF BUDGET DOCUMENTS Romania - Ministry of Public Finance
Public Documents Romania - Ministry of Public Finance
IMPROVING TRANSPARENCY Romania should prioritize the following actions to improve budget transparency: • Produce and publish a Citizens Budget. • Increase the comprehensiveness of the Executive’s Budget Proposal by presenting more information on contingent liabilities and on future liabilities. • Increase the comprehensiveness of the Year-End Report by presenting more information on planned versus actual performance. Romania - Ministry of Public Finance
IMPROVING PARTICIPATION Romania should prioritize the following actions to improve budget participation: • Ensure the public is informed of the purpose of public budget engagements and provided with sufficient information to participate effectively. • Hold legislative hearings on the state of the economy that are attended by the executive and open to the public. • Establish formal mechanisms for the public to participate in audit investigations. Romania - Ministry of Public Finance
IMPROVING OVERSIGHT Romania should prioritize the following actions to strengthen budget oversight: • Ensure the Executive’s Budget Proposal is provided to legislators at least three months before the start of the budget year. • Ensure the executive receives prior approval by the legislature before implementing a supplemental budget. Romania - Ministry of Public Finance
Stages of Budget Process Key Budget Documents: 1. Audit Reports 2. Legislative Audit Committees reports Key Budget Documents: 1. Budget framework 2. Executive Budget Proposal 3. Supporting Reports Key Budget Documents: 1. In-year Reports 2. Mid-year Reports 3. Supplementary budgets Key Budget Documents: 1. Budget law 2. Reports of legislative budget committees Romania - Ministry of Public Finance
Resources • http://www.fiscaltransparency.net/resources-all/ • http://survey.internationalbudget.org/#home • http://www.internationalbudget.org/opening-budgets/open-budget-initiative/open-budget-survey/ • https://drive.google.com/folderview?pli=1&id=0ByA9wmvBrAnZYUlwdUM2alVlR2M&ddrp=1&tid=0ByA9wmvBrAnZN3ZrdzNzcS1JZzg • http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/romania • http://www.pempal.org/about/about-pempal Romania - Ministry of Public Finance