Department of Budget and Finances

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1. Department of Budget and Finances is responsible for drafting and implementing a part of the budget, which the Minister disposes of; provides financial servicing and book-keeping record of the budget; keeps accounts for EU funds; gives payments to EU beneficiaries; implements objectives regarding public assisstance and protection of competition.

2. The Department mostly deals with the matters:
1) book-keeping record of the budget in scope of earnings and expenses, and funds for financing science;
2) budget reporting of the main disponent and whole ministry, including objective budget;
3) drafting analyses of objectives completed, and earnings and expenses, including activity based budget;
4) elaborating materials for state budget draft, including activity based budget with regard to those parts which the Minister disposes of;
5) planning earnings and expenses, including providing lower-rank disponents and other authorised bodies with any information on planned earnings and expenses, and salary limits;
6) financing investments;
7) allocation of funds to implement objectives, within the settled expenses for budgetary organs and entrepreneurs;
8) schedule of budgetary expenses;
9) changes to the list of expenses for respective disponents within a budgetary year;
10) applications for target reserves form state budget, and pertinent reporting;
11) selection of a chartered auditor for examining financial reports of research and development centres subordinate to the Minister, and their approval;
12) approval of financial reports of state enterprise of public utility „Poczta Polska” and Transportation Technical Supervision, and also assessment of reports from PKP Group;
13) approval of financial plans from entities of public finances;
14) book-keeping record of EU funds;
15) payments into accounts of EU beneficiaries;
16) financial assessment:
a) application for loans to pre-finance projects funded from EU provisions,
b) applications for payments of projects co-financed from EU provisions,
c) reports from the progress of project implementation financed from Cohesion Fund,
d) applications for payments of railway infrastructure renovation and maintenance,
e) applications for payments of concluded contracts for public service provision;
17) supervision of separate book-keeping of EU provisions conducted by beneficiaries, which implement projects co-financed from structural funds;
18) cooperation with Department of EU funds in accounting and closing SOP-T, and financial management of IEOP priorities;
19) funding entrepreneurs;
20) fare reductions in public transport;
21) monitoring of pay rise in companies subordinate to the Minister;
22) public assistance;
23) protection of competition;
24) public statistics.