To access documents and presentations listed below, please consult:
http://www.pbo-dpb.gc.ca/en/OECD_Conference/Conference+Proceedings
Background documents and submissions from delegates:
OECD Secretariat
- Revised "Principles for Independent Fiscal Institutions" (OECD Secretariat)
- Country Notes (to follow)
- Budgeting for Fiscal Space and Government Performance Beyond the Great Recession by Mario Marcel, OECD Secretariat (GOV/PGC.SBO(2013)1)
- Brazil’s Supreme Audit Institution: Enhancing audit reporting and communication is key for enhancing integrity in government accounts (OECD Secretariat)
Delegates
- Changes to the Spanish budgetary framework in 2012 by Carmen Gutierrez (Spanish Parliament)
- Italian Law 243 of December 2012: "Provisions for the application of the balanced budget principle pursuant to article 81.6 of the Constitution" (Italian Chamber of Deputies)
- Note on the establishment of the Parliamentary Budget Office in Italy (Italian Chamber of Deputies)
- A parliamentary view of Poland’s plans to enhance the role of existing institutions in place of establishing an independent fiscal institution by Dr. Zofia Szpringer (Polish Parliament)
- INTOSAI Peer Review Guide with Checklist; Annex 1 - Statements; Annex 2 - Who Audits the Auditor? (INTOSAI)
- Fiscal sustainability and the accuracy of macroeconomic forecasts: Do supranational forecasts rather than government forecasts make a difference? by Carlos Fonseca Marinheiro, Portugal.
Agenda:
Annotated draft agenda is available in English and French.
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Roundtable - New Institutions
- Chair: Kevin Page, Parliamentary Budget Officer, Canada
- Presenter (French): Jean-Philippe Cotis, Conseiller-maître, Cours des Comptes, France
- Presenter: Helmut Berger, Head, Parliamentary Budget Office, Austria
- Presenter: Puomas Pöysti, Auditor-General, National Audit Office, Finland
- Presenter: Phil Bowen, Parliamentary Budget Officer, Australia
- Presenter: chiara Goretti, Acting Head, Budget Office, Senato della Repubblica, Italy
Roundtable - Recent Developments and Views from Member Parliaments
- Chair: Kevin Page, Parliamentary Budget Officer, Canada
- Presenter: Peter Bohlbro, Head of Secretariat, Finance Committee, and Niels Hoffmeyer, Chief Economic Adviser, Danish Parliament, Denmark
- Presenter: Zofia Szpringer, Chief, Financial Analyses and State Budget Team, Bureau of Research, Sejm Chancellery, Poland
- Presenter: Marc Schattenmann, Senior Officer, Secretariat of the Budget Committee, German Parliament, Germany
Independent Fiscal Institutions and Access to Information
- Chair: John McHale, Chair, Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, Established Professor and Head of Discipline, Economics National University of Ireland, Galway
- Presenter: Tolga Yalkin, Senior Advisor to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Canada
- Presenter: Robert Chote, Chair, Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), United Kingdom
- Presenter: Bob Sunshine, Deputy Director, Congressional Budget Office (CBO), United States
Evaluating Independent Fiscal Institutions
- Chair: Phil Bowen, Parliamentary Budget Officer, Australia
- Presenter: Annamaria Vizikova, Director, Office of the President, Supreme Audit Office, Slovak Republic
- Presenter: Xavier Debrun, Deputy Division Chief, Fiscal Policy and Surveillance, Fiscal Affairs, Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Presenter: Kevin Page, Parliamentary Budget Officer, Canada
Friday, 22 February 2012
Budget Oversight under Minority (and Coalition) Governments
- Chair: Kevin Page, Parliamentary Budget Officer, Canada
- Presenter: Ingvar Mattson, Head of Secretariat, Finance Committee, Swedish Parliament, Sweden
- Presenter: David Brunoro, Committee Secretary, Public Accounts and Audit, Department of the House of Representatives, Australia
- Presenter: Eduard A.J. Groen, Deputy clerk of the House of Representatives, Head of the Committee Assistance Department on Social, Economic and Financial Affairs, Clerk of the Public Expenditure Committee, the Netherlands
- Presenter: Simon Wakefield, Head, Financial Scrutiny Unit, Scottish Parliament, United Kingdom
The Impact of Permanent Legislation on Budgeting and Budget Oversight
- Chair: Niklas Frank, Senior Economist, Swedish Fiscal Policy Council
- Presenter: Bob Sunshine, Deputy Director, Congressional Budget Office (CBO), United States
- Discussant: Ingvar Mattson, Head of Secretariat, Finance Committee, Swedish Parliament, Sweden
- Discussant: Jason Jacques, Director, Budget, Estimates and Reporting, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Canada
The Benefits of Long-term Fiscal Projections
- Chair: Robert Chote, Chair, Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), United Kingdom
- Presenter: Sebastian Barnes, Senior Economist, Economics Department, OECD, and Member of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
- Presenter: Chris Matier, Senior Director, Economic and Fiscal Analysis and Forecasting, Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Canada
- Presenter: Yong Joong Yoon, Director, Economic Policy Analysis Division, Economic Analysis Office, National Assembly Budget Office (NABO), Korea
- Presenter: Geert Langenus, Head of Division, Research Department, National Bank of Belgium
- Presenter: Wim Suyker, Programme Leader, Public Finance, Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB), the Netherlands
Adoption of the revised "Principles for Independent Fiscal Institutions", future work, and report by the OECD Secretariat
- Chair: Kevin Page, Parliamentary Budget Officer, Canada.