OECD network of parliamentary budget officials

The OECD Working Party of Senior Budget Officials (SBO) has created a network of parliamentary budget officials. Early work to create this network involved meetings of chairpersons of parliamentary budget committees, and a meeting on the relationship between the legislature and the budget office.

Parliamentary budget institutions include such bodies as independent parliamentary budget offices and specialised units dedicated to technical support or research for parliamentary budget committees, as well as specialised professional staffs of parliamentary budget committees.

The next meeting will be held in Bern, Switzerland, 11-12 February 2010.

Past meetings:

• 1st annual meeting of OECD Parliamentary Budget Officials, Rome (26-27 February 2009)
• Meeting on the relationship between the legislature and the budget office in the budget process, Paris (2-3 October 2006)
• Meeting of OECD member country parliamentary budget committee chairs, Rome (5-6 June 2003)
• International symposium of chairpersons of parliamentary budget committees of OECD member countries: "Holding the Executive Accountable: New Challenges", Washington DC (6-7 June 2002)
• International symposium of chairpersons of parliamentary budget committees: "Holding the Executive Accountable: The Changing Role of Parliament in the Budget Process", Paris (24-25 January 2001)