Improving Accessibility of Local Budget Contents to the Citizens and the Public: Give Recommendations to Local Units to Publish Budget Documents (HR0004)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Croatia Action Plan 2012-2013
Action Plan Cycle: 2012
Status:
Institutions
Lead Institution: Ministry of Finance
Support Institution(s): Local and regional self-government units
Policy Areas
Fiscal Openness, Local Commitments, Publication of Budget/Fiscal InformationIRM Review
IRM Report: Croatia IRM Progress Report 2012-2013
Early Results: No IRM Data
Design i
Verifiable: Yes
Relevant to OGP Values: Yes
Ambition (see definition): High
Implementation i
Description
Give recommendations and instructions to all local and regional self-government units to publish, on their official web sites, key budgetary documents (budget proposal - when the executive bodies send it to the representative bodies; budget adopted by the representative body - when the representative body adopts it; semi-annual and annual report on execution - when the executive bodies send it to the representative bodies). Make a standardized format for publishing guidebooks for citizens to accompany the local and regional self-government unit budgets and recommend their timely announcement to local authorities.