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This report reviews the budget planning and management practices applied by the Committee for Environmental Regulation and Control (CERC) of Kazakhstan. It also considers possible measures that could help to secure adequate resources for the Committee’s compliance assurance activity. The OECD paper Funding Environmental Compliance Assurance served as an analytical framework for the study.
The report covers a number of critical issues, including revenue, costing approaches and budget formulation practices, funds allocation and expenditure management, as well as scenarios for addressing funding gaps. The legal and institutional aspects that have direct impact on the resource-intensity of compliance assurance (and thus financial implications) are part of the analysis. The analysis assumes that compliance assurance strategies should be guided by modern regulation and good governance principles that include, among others, orientation to achieving results, consistency, coherence and integrity, public participation, as well as transparency and accountability. Equally, sound budget management principles and use of regulatory cost-recovery should be applied to increase the efficiency of compliance assurance.
Based on existing international benchmarks, the report proposes both short- and medium-term improvements with regard to budget formulation and management practices.
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