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Chairman of NA Standing Committee on Monetary and Budgetary Affairs, Vice-President of “Bright Armenia” Faction Mane Tandilyan thinks that the budget on environmental programs has been approved by the government in violation of the law. "According to the Law on Budget System, the projected expenditure of each year's state budgets on environmental programs may not be less than the aggregate of actual payments for environmental and nature use fees of the second budget year preceding that year.
The costs of environmental projects for 2019 cannot be less than 40.1 billion drams, taking into account the actual revenues in this regard. A few days ago I received a response from the Minister of Finance that the costs involved are 11 billion drams, which is less than 30 billion drams. According to the same law, the costs of environmental projects in 2020 should be 54.2 billion drams, while a few days ago the government-approved project plans 15.7 billion drams, which is less than 40 billion drams.
I would like to know whether this is the result of a special strategy in the field of environment or the ignorance of the laws by the Ministries of Finance and Environment. How does the law get the approval of the government in this way?” Mane Tandilyan asked in the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia.
RA Minister of Finance Atom Janjughazyan responded: "It might as well be ... the draft is in line with the Law on the Budget System ... in our opinion we have not broken the law."
In his turn, Tandilyan responded that it was strange to hear the minister justify the submission of the budget in violation of the law.
Details are available in the 24News video.
October 14, 2019 at 13:13