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This directive has been drafted and submitted by the Ministry of Finance pursuant to Point 36 of Government Directive No. 1950-r of 11 November 2010, Approval of the List of State Programmes of the Russian Federation.
The agency responsible for the state programme is the Finance Ministry. The Ministry of Regional Development is a participant.
The aim of the programme is to ensure nationwide access to a set of standard state and municipal services that greatly affect the quality of life of Russian citizens across the country.
The programme creates a stable financial framework for fulfilling regional and municipal government spending commitments. The framework is based on modern principles for the effective management of government and municipal finances.
The programme includes three sub-programmes:
- Improving how funds are distributed and redistributed among the budgets of various levels;
- Supporting stable budget practices among regional and municipal authorities;
- Promoting better management of regional and municipal finances.
The state programme is to be implemented in 2013-2020:
- Stage 1, 2013–2015: this stage has been synchronised with the three-year budget plan for 2013-2015;
- Stage 2, 2016–2020.
The programme aims to:
- lower the number of regional and municipal budgets for which the estimated share of inter-budgetary transfers exceeds 60%;
- reduce overdue accounts payable in consolidated regional budgets;
- increase the share of target programme-based expenditures in consolidated regional/municipal budgets;
- reduce the number of Russian regions violating budget law;
- increase estimated fiscal capacity in the 10 lowest-revenue regions (accrued total on the 2012 level);
- increase the number of regional and municipal governments employing good or acceptable regional financial management practices.
Federal budget allocations for the programme in 2013-2020 total 5.597 trillion roubles, including 5.589 trillion roubles in transfers to support stable regional and local budgets and 8 billion roubles to improve the management of regional and municipal finances. No federal funds will be needed to make improvements to the system of inter-budgetary relations.
The state programme is expected to:
- improve how financial resources are distributed and redistributed among the various levels of the Russian state budgetary system;
- limit the disparity between the levels of regions’ fiscal capacity;
- reduce overdue accounts payable;
- reduce consolidated regional budgets’ dependence on federal transfers and make regional executive bodies more independent;
- improve the management of regional and municipal finances and reduce budget law violations by regional and municipal governments.