National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia / Activities / Activity details
19 March 2013 Participants of the seminar
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Public Finance Sustainability Seminar
Today, at the National Assembly House, the Committee on Finance, State Budget and Control of Public Spending and USAID – Business Enabling Project, organised a seminar on public finance sustainability for the members of the Committee on Finance, State Budget and Control of Public Spending.
The representative of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, Marinko Bosnjak, said that public finance sustainability has an institutional aspect, determined by the Law on the Budget System, and a fiscal aspect, determined by the Fiscal Strategy as a medium-term strategic document. Bosnjak stressed that public finance sustainability is achieved through a fiscal consolidation programme, stimulation of economic growth and implementation of structural reform.
Sasa Randjelovic, fiscal policy expert and assistant at the Faculty of Economics, spoke of the factors of public finance sustainability in Serbia in the medium term. He presented the structure of the public sector in Serbia to the Committee members and an analysis of the impact of the size and structure of the public sector on the state’s economic results. Randjelovic also spoke of the causes and effects of the debtors’ crisis, the factors of public finance sustainability and structural fiscal deficit as the fundamental parameter of public finance sustainability.
The representative of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, Nada Mirkovic, analysed the structure of the budget and the specific categories in the budget of the Republic of Serbia. The Committee members were especially interested in the envisaged obligation of preparing a programme budget starting from 2015.
The seminar is part of the programme of strengthening the capacities of the National Assembly’s working bodies implemented by the National Assembly in partnership with USAID.
Activities
-
after the voting – press conference of MP Miroslav Petrasinovic (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
-
11.00 - the PFG with the Republic of Tunisia meets with the Tunisian Ambassador to Serbia (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
-
12.30 - sitting of the Committee on Finance, State Budget and Control of Public Spending (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
-
13.00 - sitting of the Culture and Information Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
-
13.00 - continuation of the 23rd sitting of the Committee on Spatial Planning, Transport, Infrastructure and Telecommunications (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)
-
15.00 - the Head of the ALEKSANDAR VUCIC – Serbia Must Not Stop Parliamentary Group meets with the delegation of the United Srpska Parliamentary Group from the Republic of Srpska (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)
-
exhibition “Awakening of Lazar’s Town: Revision of Archaeological Research into the Town of Krusevac 2025” (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)