Preliminary assessment of the fourth payment request of Romania

Number and name of the Milestone: RO-C[C8]-R[R3.0] M[201] Spending review in health and education sectors conducted

Related Measure: RO-C[C8]-R[R3.0] Improving the budgetary programming mechanism

Qualitative Indicator: Publishing the analysis of spending in the fields of education and health

Time: Q2 2023

1. Context:

Milestone 201 is part of reform C8.R3, which aims at enhancing the budgetary programming mechanism. This measure consists in the adoption of legal act(s) to ensure multi-annual budgetary planning, enhance the prioritisation of public investment and introduce systematic spending reviews.

Milestone 201 requires that the spending review in the health and education sectors is conducted, and that the analysis is published.

Milestone 201 is the third milestone of the reform, and it is accompanied by milestone 202 in this payment request, related to the adoption of a multi-annual strategy and calendar for a systematic expenditure review across all sectors. Milestone 201 follows the completion of milestone 199 and milestone 200, related to the entry into force of the amended regulatory framework to ensure multiannual budgetary planning for the significant public investment projects and have an ex-post evaluation of expenditure reviews made by the Fiscal Council and to the entry into force of the government decision for the approval of the methodology for drawing up, monitoring and reporting of the budgetary programmes respectively.

2. Evidence provided:

                          Name of the evidence                        Short description

         1          Cover note                         Summary document duly justifying how
                                                       the milestone (including all the
                                                       constitutive elements) was satisfactorily
                                                       fulfilled.
         2          Copy of Memorandum of the Memorandum of the Ministry of Finance
                    Ministry of Finance No. 475742 of presenting the spending review on
                    16      June      2022      titled Health.
                    “Memorandum approving the
                    framework for the review of
                    public expenditure and the theme
                    of the analysis in the field of
                    health, 2022-2023”, approved by

the Government on 3 August 2022.

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