Parliamentary scrutiny of the annual budget

The parliament discusses the MTBF or a pre-budget report or similar, before it receives the annual budget proposal

Review of minutes of the parliamentary discussion. Parliamentary discussion at the level of budget and finance committee meet this criterion.

Sector committees of the parliament are engaged in the deliberation on the draft budget

Review of written inputs to the budget submitted by sector committees to the finance committee.

The time available for parliament to debate and vote on the annual budget bill is, in practice, at least three months

Review of documents’ submission dates.

The time available for parliament to debate and vote on supplementary budgets during the fiscal year is, in practice, at least six weeks

Review of parliamentary minutes. In the rare instances where there has been no supplementary budget during the year, the criterion can be considered fulfilled.

Parliaments identify the sources of funding in case they propose amendments to the budget law

Review of parliamentary minutes.