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Zagreb

30 June - 1 July 2011

The Croatian Ministry of Finance hosted the 7th annual meeting of senior budget officials from central, eastern and south-eastern Europe (CESEE). The meeting was chaired by Richard Emery, former Assistant Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, United States.

Agenda - GOV/PGC/SBO/A(2011)5

Thursday, 30 June 2011

• Current challenges of fiscal policy in central and eastern Europe (Presentation by Peter Bekx, EU, Ivana Maletic, Croatia) 
• Workshop 1.a on new EU requirements for the budgetary frameworks of its country members, and possible consequences for the candidate and potential candidate countries (Presentation by Valentina Kostyleva, OECD)
• Workshop 1.b on fiscal consolidation: experiences of CESEE and OECD countries (Presentations by Franziska Ohnsorge, EBRD, and Colin Forthun, OECD) 
• Workshop 1.c : What is a transparent, comprehensive and effective budget classification from the perspective of the government and of the parliament? (Presentations by Noel Bezzina, Malta, and Chiara Goretti, Italy)
• Budget review of Ukraine - GOV/PGC/SBO(2011)1 - (Presentation by Dirk-Jan Kraan, OECD, and comments by Richard Adorjan, Hungary)

Friday, 1 July 2011

• Workshop 2.a on steering of executive agencies (Presentations by Peter Van Den Berg, Netherlands, and Ivani Ivanov, Bulgaria)
• Workshop 2.b on how to set up a long-term fiscal sustainability analysis (Presentations by Ilonda Stepanova, Latvia, and by Turkey)
• Workshop 2.c on how to prepare a medium-term expenditure framework, and the role of spending review (Presentations by Bohan Hedjuk, Czech Republic, and Joop Vrolijk, OECD)
• Recent developments in Croatia and the region
• Budget review of Montenegro - GOV/PGC/SBO(2011)5 - (Presentation by Valentina Kostyleva, OECD)
• Panel: fiscal consolidation in CESEE countries (Presentation by Brian Olden, IMF)
• Programme of work.

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