Execution of Union State Budget Found Satisfactory

At the session of the Parliamentary Assembly the deputies examined the report on implementation of the Union State budget in 2009 prepared by the Union State Council of Ministers. The Supreme State Council is recommended to approve the report of the Union State Council of Ministers on execution of the Union State budget in 2009. An appropriate resolution on the report issued by the Parliamentary Assembly Committee on Budget and Finance was passed.

At the session of the Parliamentary Assembly the deputies examined the report on implementation of the Union State budget in 2009 prepared by the Union State Council of Ministers. The Supreme State Council is recommended to approve the report of the Union State Council of Ministers on execution of the Union State budget in 2009. An appropriate resolution on the report issued by the Parliamentary Assembly Committee on Budget and Finance was passed.

Parliamentary Assembly Committee on Budget and Finance considered it important to pay attention to the following results of the Union State budget implementation in 2009. Altogether, in 2009 Union State budget revenues amounted to RUB 5,694,194.5 thousand (101% of revised budget allocations). Meanwhile, Union State budget expenditures in 2009 totalled RUB 5,098,615 thousand (which makes 90.5% of the volume of expenditures approved by budget allocations for 2009). Cash expenditures of chief administrators in 2009 made up RUB 4,920,197.8 thousand (which is 87.4% of the volume of expenditures approved by budget allocations for 2009).

On the whole, the level of execution of the Union State budget was higher than in 2007-2008.

Financing of 18 programmes, subprogrammes, and 31 events of the Union State in 2009 totalled RUB 4,751,065.9 thousand (90% of revised budget allocations). Cash expenditures amounted to RUB 4,598,385.1 thousand (87.1% of revised budget allocations).

The analysis of programmes’ and activities’ implementation in 2009 showed that the main reason for delayed exploitation of assets and emergence of target cash balance in the amount of RUB 485.9 million is improperly organized implementation of the Union State programmes and activities. In particular, delayed onset and prolonged tender procedures aimed to determine the executors of joint programmes, conclude appropriate agreements and reconcile the estimate of expenditure on activities; failure to submit the documents confirming the validity of payments to the national treasury in proper time. On the other hand, one can’t but notice the imperfection of the existing normative legal basis which impedes preparation and implementation of the Union State programmes and activities.

The Committee proposed to charge the Union State Council of Ministers with intensifying the work on development and practical application of normative documents concerning registration, evaluation and management of the Union State property, as well as reviewing the activities of ministries and agencies of Belarus and the Russian Federation as regards carrying out the decisions of the Union State Council of Ministers and normative legal acts of the Union State.