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The Fiscal Council has prepared a report on its operation in the past year which it is obliged to submit, pursuant to the Fiscal Rule Act, to the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia by the end of May each year. The Fiscal Council estimates that in 2019 all the obligations imposed by the […]

On 24 April 2020, the Fiscal Council received the proposal for the Ordinance amending the Ordinance on the framework for the preparation of the general government budgets for the 2020–2022 period and the draft Stability Programme 2020 in order to assess their compliance with the fiscal rules. According to the assessment of the Fiscal Council […]

On 2 April 2020, the National Assembly approved the Act Determining the Intervention Measures to Contain the COVID-19 Epidemic and Mitigate its Consequences for Citizens and the Economy (hereinafter: the Act). International organisations recommend that measures be implemented in a rational order by addressing, as far as possible and as effectively as possible, the areas […]

The Fiscal Council concluded that the declaration of the epidemic in Slovenia constitutes an unusual event under Point 2 of Paragraph one of Article 12 of the Fiscal Rule Act (ZFisP) enabling the application of exceptional circumstances to measures mitigating the consequences of such an event, and hence allowing a deviation from the medium-term balance […]

The Prime Minister elect Mr Janez Janša responded to the invitation and visited the Fiscal Council together with Mr Andrej Šircelj, the candidate for the Minister of Finance, today. During an informal meeting the Fiscal Council expressed its views on the general government position in Slovenia. The discussion also addressed current major macroeconomic and public […]

Due to the increasing number of cancellations of international meetings around the world, the difficulties with traveling and, consequently, the cancellation of some international participants at the Ljubljana conference, the conference “Long-term Sustainability of Public Finance of Slovenia”, which should be held on March 20, 2020, is postponed to autumn 2020. The exact date will […]