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01/07/2022

Monthly Information, January 2022

According to provisional data, the state budget deficit amounted to EUR –3.098 billion in 2021, while without the direct effect of COVID-related measures, the deficit would have amounted to EUR –705 million. The deficit in both comparisons was smaller than in 2020, which is mainly the result of the revenue growth as economic activity has […]

12/03/2021

Monthly Information, December 2021

According to provisional data, the state budget deficit amounted to EUR –2.641 billion in the first eleven months of 2021, while without the direct effect of COVID-related measures, the deficit would have amounted to EUR –577 million. According to the Ministry of Finance’s estimate of the outturn in September, the state budget deficit is expected […]

11/04/2021

Monthly Information, November 2021

According to provisional data, the state budget deficit amounted to EUR –2.339 billion in the first ten months of 2021, while without the direct effect of COVID-related measures the deficit would have amounted to EUR –423 million. According to the Ministry of Finance’s estimate of the out-turn in September, the state budget deficit is expected […]

10/18/2021

Assessment by the Fiscal Council: Assessment of budgetary documents for 2022 and 2023

The proposed budget documents set out an additionally stimulative fiscal policy for the coming years, over and above that included in the documents currently in force, although there are already signs of overheating in the economy, with supply-side constraints emerging. This increases the risk that the temporary exceptional increase in public spending, which was largely […]

10/08/2021

Assessment by the Fiscal Council: Compliance of the draft Ordinance amending the Ordinance on the framework for the preparation of the general government budgets for the 2020–2022 period with the fiscal rules

The proposal of the amended Framework allows for additional fiscal stimulus, given that economic conditions are better than expected at the time when the current Framework was drawn up. A significant increase in expenditure in 2021 would set the stage for an inappropriate structural deterioration of public finances in the future. According to the Fiscal […]

10/05/2021

Monthly Information, October 2021

According to provisional data, the state budget deficit amounted to EUR –2.453 billion in the first nine months of 2021, while without the direct effect of COVID-related measures the deficit would have amounted to EUR –388 million. A deficit of EUR –2.747 billion is envisaged in the state budget for the whole year. Revenue in […]

Slovenia has committed itself to establishing the Fiscal Council by ratifying the international Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union, based on which the fiscal rule was integrated into the Constitution in 2013, while in 2015 an implementing act – the Fiscal Rule Act – was adopted.

The Fiscal Council is an independent and autonomous state authority supervising the management of the fiscal policy. Its fundamental task is to monitor the compliance with the fiscal rule, the medium-term balance between revenue and expenditure without borrowing, except in exceptional circumstances, and to monitor the implementation of the EU legislation regulating the economic governance in Member States.

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