Director of the Directorate
Mr. Dobrin Pindjurov
Contact details:
102 “G. S. Rakovski” Str.
1040 Sofia, Bulgaria
telephone: (+359) 2/9859 2101

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The Budget Directorate plays a leading role in assisting the Minister of Finance in the implementation and coordination of the government policy in the area of public finance in view to maintaining macroeconomic stability, as well as in the formulation of the country’s budgetary policy in the short and medium term and the preparation of the state budget of the Republic of Bulgaria.

The Directorate has three Divisions:

• Budget Policy Division;
• Budget Methodology Division; and
• General Government Forecasts Division.

In connection with the fulfilment of the main policy objectives in the area of sustainable and transparent public finance, the functions of the Directorate are focused on the following main strands:

• assisting the Minister of Finance in implementing fiscal policy in view to achieving sustainable medium-term fiscal framework and optimising budgetary planning;
• preparing the budgetary procedure for the respective year by coordinating the activities related to the preparation of the state budget, the decree on its implementation, the medium-term budget forecast and its revision;
• developing the instructions and guidelines necessary for the planning and drawing up of the budget forecasts and the draft budgets of the first-level spending units;
• developing a methodology for the planning, drafting, implementation and reporting of the programme and result oriented budgets of the first-level spending units, including supporting its implementation;
• developing and revising the budget forecasts of the general government and its sub-sectors in accordance with the requirements of the methodology of the European System of National and Regional Accounts in the European Union 2010 (ESA 2010), as well as aggregating data on discretionary revenue and expenditure measures of the government;
• maintaining and updating databases for the main fiscal indicators on a cash basis as well as for the general government.

The Budget Directorate coordinates the preparation of budgetary legislation and the improvement of the budgetary process in line with good practices, including by means of participating in the discussion of fiscal policy and practices with international financial institutions as well as with the institutions of the European Union.