However, the actual funding amounts for individual areas by far exceed the spending plan approved by the lawmakers.
The reason for this are the so-called “transfers”, when – without amending the Law On State Budget and simply based on the Cabinet’s decision upon agreement with the parliamentary Committee on Budget – the allocations can be reassigned from one budget program (i.e. spending area) to another or within the same program – from consumption expenditure to development expenditure and vice versa.
