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The Bill on Amendments to the State Budget Act (520 SE), initiated by the Estonian Centre Party Group, aimed to improve the transparency of the state budget, and, to this end, to completely switch to a cost-based, i.e. input-based budget. The goal was to abandon the division of costs into performance areas and programmes. According to the Bill, the activity-based and performance-based output of expenses would have been reflected only in the appendix to the explanatory memorandum. Under the Bill, the annual budget should have outlined all state revenues and expenditures in accordance with their economic content and corresponding agency.
Lauri Laats from the Centre Party Group, Maris Lauri from the Reform Party Parliamentary Group, and Riina Solman from Isamaa Parliamentary Group took the floor during the debate. Anti Poolamets from the Estonian Conservative People’s Party Group made a speech.
The Finance Committee moved to reject the Bill at the first reading. 32 members of the Riigikogu supported rejection and 11 voted against. As a result of the voting, the Bill was dropped from the proceedings of the Riigikogu.
Verbatim record of the sitting (in Estonian)
Video recording will be available to watch later on the Riigikogu YouTube channel.
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Link uudisele: The Riigikogu rejected the Bill on the cost-based state budget
Source: Parliament of Estonia