OECD conference centre, Paris, 3-4 June 2013

The 34th annual meeting of OECD Senior Budget Officials was chaired by Gerhard Steger, Director-General of Budget and Public Finance, Austria.

 

Monday 3 June 2013

Opening by Chairman and OECD Secretariat

Introductions by Delegates

Welcome Address – Creating Fiscal Space

• Presentation by:  Mario Marcel, Deputy Director, OECD/GOV

The 2012 OECD Budgeting Survey and Principles for Budget Institutions

• Presentation by:  Jon Blondal & Knut Klepsvik, OECD Secretariat

The Evolving Role of Budgeting and of the Budget Office – Topics

• Presentations by:  Allen Schick, Brookings Institution, United States;  Marco Cangiano, IMF

Tuesday 4 June 2013

Use of Spending Reviews

• Presentation by:  Marc Robinson, Consultant;  John Palmer, Department of Finance, Ireland

Fiscal Risk and Contingent Liabilities

• Presentations by:  Ronnie Downes, OECD Secretariat; Peter Van den Berg, Ministry of Finance, Netherlands

Developments in Performance Budgeting

• Presentations by:  Allen Schick, Brookings Institution, United States; Christian Kastrop, Ministry of Finance, Germany

Future Work Programme

• Presentation by Jon Blondal, OECD Secretariat

 

Background documents:

GOV/PGC/SBO/A(2013)5 - Provisional Agenda

GOV/PGC/SBO(2013)1 – Budgeting for Fiscal Space and Government Performance Beyond the Great Recession

GOV/PGC/SBO(2013)4/PROV – Results of the 2012 OECD Budget Practices and Procedures Survey– 1^st DRAFT

GOV/PGC/SBO(2013)5 – The Metamorphoses of Performance Budgeting

GOV/PGC/SBO(2013)6 – Spending Reviews

GOV/PGC/SBO(2013)7 – Budgeting for Contingent Liabilities – Discussion Paper