Stockholm

28-29 April 2011

 

Delegates from 25 parliaments attended the meeting, including nine parliaments that participated for the first time. The meeting was chaired by Ms. Anna Kinberg Batra, MP, Chair of the Swedish Riksdag’s Finance Committee.

 

 

Background documents:

• Background notes on Committee Structures for Budget Approval and Oversight/Interim Financial Reporting, by Lisa von Trapp (OECD Secretariat) and Jacques Jason (Canadian Parliamentary Budget Office) - GOV/PGC/SBO(2011)6  
• Repairing the budget contract:  balancing high expectations and low trust, by Allen Schick (as revised for the 32nd annual meeting of OECD Senior Budget Officials, Luxembourg, 6-7 June 2011) - GOV/PGC/SBO(2011)4 

 

 

Agenda

 

 Full versions of the Agenda are available in English and French

 

Thursday, 28 April 2011

 

The role of parliament in the approval and oversight of fiscal stimulus packages and strategies to reduce fiscal deficits

 

Presentations:

• Presentation by Bob Sunshine, Deputy Director, Congressional Budget Office (CBO), United States (pdf)
• Presentation by Marc Shattenmann, Senior Officer, Budget Committee Secretariat, German Bundestag (pdf)

 

 

Committee structures for budget approval and oversight

• Presentation by Joachim Wehner (pdf)

 

 

Repairing the budget contract: balancing high expectations and low trust

• Keynote address by Allen Schick (pdf)

 

 

Roundtable on recent parliamentary budgeting developments

 

 

 Presentations:

• The establishment of a Parliamentary Budget Office in the Austrian National Council
• Chile
• Finland
• Éléments d'information concernant la France sur les thèmes de la réunion
• Hong Kong
• Isreal
• Italy: Fiscal stimulus package and Strategies to reduce fiscal deficit 
• Italy: Adjusting the budgetary decision-making system to the new European economic governance system 
• Japan - The Role of the Diet
• Japan - Parliamentary Budget Organization
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Poland
• Recent Parliamentary Budgeting Developments in Poland from a Parliamentary Perspective 
• Portugal 
• Spain 

 

 

Friday, 29 April 2011

 

Parliamentary budget offices and fiscal councils – new institutions and challenges

 

Presentations:

• Lars Calmfors, Chair, Swedish Fiscal Policy Council (pdf)
• Robert Chote, Chair, Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), United Kingdom (pdf)
• George Kopits, former Chair of the Hungarian Fiscal Council (pdf)
• What should fiscal councils do? 

 

Discussion paper: Independent Fiscal Institutions - GOV/PGC/SBO(2011)7

 

 

The impact of parliamentary budget offices

 

Presentations:

• Presentation by Bob Sunshine, Deputy Director, Congressional Budget Office (CBO), United States, on the impact of CBO analysis on the debate on the United States new health care legislation (pdf)
• Selected CBO Publications Related to Health Care Legislation, 2009–2010

 

 

Interim reporting practices and legislative oversight in OECD countries

 

Presentations:

• Presentation by Kevin Page, Parliamentary Budget Officer, Canada (pdf)
• Supporting Parliamentary Scrutiny of the Estimates: The Integrated Monitoring Database (IMD) 

 

 

 

Report by the OECD Secretariat

 

This session updated participants on current and future projects by the OECD in the field of budgeting and public expenditures. It was also an opportunity for participants to identify emerging priority areas for future work, the nature of their interest in the subject and their willingness to participate in particular studies.

 

 

 Additional documents

• Brazil - Le procedure di bilancio in Italia e in Brasile : Alcuni contributi alla loro riforma
• Brazil - Federal Budget for Everyone
• Brazil - Economic Outlook
• Hong Kong: The Facts
• Examination of the Macroeconomic Assumptions of the Biennial Budget, Israel