5th Annual Meeting of OECD Parliamentary Budget Officials and Independent Fiscal Institutions, Ottawa, Canada, 21-22 February 2013

To access documents and presentations listed below, please consult:

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

Budgeting and public expenditures