English Translation

The Ministry of Finance. G. Z. 97.200/42-I/1. Decree of the Minister of Finance concerning the transfer of budgetary resources to the authorities subordinated to the central authorities. In order to enable the subordinate authorities to carry out their administrative activities in future also with regard to budgetary management under their own responsibility, the following instructions are issued: I. Allocation of the amounts authorized by budget. (') The Ministers of the Protectorate or the Central Authorities of the protectorate shall distribute the budget in good time and, if necessary, to the subordinate authorities for one accounting year, on prior notification of needs (authorities of the II. (a) either in the form of the relevant part of the budget chapter or as a compilation of the budgetary resources to be managed by them, separately from each item in the budget; in the latter case, the appropriations to be distributed shall not immediately be distributed to the subordinate authorities in full, but a part of about 20 %. The new authorising authority or the paying authority (cassa) shall be informed in writing of the allocation of the budget. In so far as the amounts withheld cannot be saved, they shall be made available to the subordinate authorities in the course of the forecast year if necessary. If the budget allocation does not follow in good time, the new authorising authorities may only make irrefutable necessary expenditure. The head of the new authorising authority is responsible for the payments made under the allocated budget. (2) In agreement with the Minister of Finance, the Minister for the Protectorate or the Central Protectorate shall determine at which level the authorities of the II. (i) the remuneration of permanent and assigned staff and the rents shall continue to be instructed by the previous authorising authorities. () The budget allocated to the authorities at the first stage shall be used to provide evidence to the public authorities in which the budget allocated for each subordinate authority shall be included, separately according to the individual items (headings) of the eligible accounting classes of the budget (Appendix 1). II. Management of the allocated budget. (') Estimate credits shall mean the maximum amount of expenditure to which they may be made and shall ensure that, if not strictly necessary, such credits are not exhausted.