Placed under the authority of a Director General, the Directorate General Budget is responsible for:

• The implementation of the government’s budgetary policy
• Forecasting fiscal developments,
• The budgetary framework,
• The preparation of draft state finance laws
• The execution of the State’s investment budget in liaison with the Ministry of Public Investment,
• Monitoring and implementation of the priority investment program, in liaison with the ministry in charge of public investment,
• Monitoring, auditing and evaluation of programs within the framework of the State budget,
• The development of procedures for the modernization of expenditure circuits,
• The collection and use of all information relating to the preparation of the budget, in liaison with the administrations concerned,
• Preparation, monitoring, evaluation and control of the execution of the State’s operating budget, in liaison with the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Spatial Development.
• The preparation of the summary notes on the execution of the State budget in liaison with the administrations concerned,
• The preparation of the budget situation notes,
• Preparation and monitoring of the application of budgetary regulations
• The development and implementation of budgetary reform, in conjunction with other relevant departments,
• Monitoring and evaluation of state subsidies to public institutions and public bodies.
• Management of receivables and public shareholdings
• Consolidation of budgetary information with that of decentralized local authorities and public institutions
• Centralization and analysis of data on public expenditure programs
• Monitoring the level of physical and financial execution of development programs or projects financed from external resources, in conjunction with the administrations concerned with the execution of the medium-term expenditure framework,
• The orientation and supervision of the action of financial controls, both at central and decentralized level,
• The consolidation of the administrative accounts of authorising officers,
• The production of the annual control report,
• The administrative accounting of State expenditure,
• The production of data and performance indicators on the evolution of budgetary expenditure,
• The implementation of the government’s wage policy, in liaison with the ministry in charge of the civil service;
• The preparation and monitoring of the application of laws and regulations relating to staff costs, in liaison with the administrations concerned,
• The analysis of the financial impact of texts relating to staff and pension expenditure;
• The compilation and consolidation of pay statistics,
• The control of pay processing structures operating within the Ministry and other administrations;
• The management of the central balance database of State personnel,
• The management of the file of life pensions and annuities,
• The production of pension statements,
• The monitoring of the repayment of pension contributions of detached staff.