Proposition 54K2139

Projet de loi modifiant la loi du 22 mai 2003 portant organisation du budget et de la comptabilité de l'Etat fédéral.

General information ¶

Submitted by

MR Swedish coalition

Submission date

Nov. 7, 2016

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Status

Adopted

Requirement

Simple

Subjects

administrative formalities national accounts public administration public sector public accounting national budget

Voting ¶

Voted to adopt

CD&V Open Vld N-VA LDD MR

Voted to reject

LE PS | SP DéFI

Abstained from voting

Groen Vooruit Ecolo ∉ PVDA | PTB PP VB

Party dissidents ¶

• Olivier Maingain (MR) voted to reject.

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Discussion ¶

Dec. 21, 2016 | Plenary session (Chamber of representatives)

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Mr Roel Deseyn, rapporteur, refers to the written report.

The discussions in the committee on this text were interesting. They were somewhat delayed because the commission considered it better to have the Court’s opinion on the draft text. This review has been analyzed and it is not quite enthusiastic.

I will not return to the content of the discussions on the text, but rather to the implementation of the federal accounting reform. The law of 22 May 2003 still suffers many shortcomings in its implementation. I would like to draw the attention of the Minister of Budget to this article in the notebook which includes a fairly comprehensive and rigorous audit on how the federal state is implementing, with much delay, the federal accounting reform.

The Court emphasizes that no less than twenty articles of the May 2003 Act still need to be executed. They need an enforcement order. Eleven of them concern the general administration and this concerns a whole range of issues: the modalities of establishing rights, the preservation of supporting documents, the preservation of books and newspapers, etc. These are very technical issues, but they are important for the proper functioning of state services.

The Court stresses that these missing judgments are classified according to a progress process, depending on whether they are ongoing, planned or unplanned. You realize that there are a number of projects or pre-projects of stops that are still very far from being in planning since they are considered unplanned. In 2016, contrary to what was expected, there will be no publication of enforcement orders.

I highlight these delays in the implementation of the regulation because they are not without impact. There is a form of legal uncertainty that results, with most departments ending by circulating provisional provisions that lack coherence and lack, above all, legal solidity.

The Court examined the reasons for this delay. She emphasizes, in particular, that only one collaborator has been appointed part-time to prepare the execution decisions, that within the management committee of the SPF Budget and Accounting, there is not really a clear vision of what these decisions should contain.

There is a form of consensus search that delays the process a lot. I do not want to upset the Minister. I know she is aware of this problem. I would simply like to encourage him to consider that this work of implementing the reform constitutes an important work, which is not necessarily very political but which is technically necessary.

The Court of Auditors’ criticisms were not challenged by the SPF as it stated that it had no comments to make regarding the Court of Auditors’ conclusions and recommendations. I assume that one day we will have the opportunity to talk about it, ⁇ in the subcommittee of the Court of Auditors.

I would like to encourage Ms. Minister in favour of this point and raise her awareness of the need to give ⁇ priority to this technical but important work.

Thank you, Mr. Dispa, for your intervention and for your encouragement. It is true that royal enforcement orders are not extremely political, but yet fundamental matters. I agree with you.

I remind you that we were waiting for this law to be voted in order to pass a royal decree of execution, which we had already deposited in the Council of State. The Council has rightly pointed out to us that we must first wait for the vote on the amendment to the law of 2003 to pass it and this on the twenty articles you are talking about. There are already seven articles. There are still thirteen. The work is not finished, I agree.

Another very important Royal Execution Decree is the Royal Actor Decree. Even if it has not yet been drafted, it should also wait for the vote on the revision of the law of 2003, so that it can take a step back and actually see who specifies the roles and responsibilities of each.

Another royal decree has not been completed but is being prepared. This is a royal decree that we are working on as a priority.

Another royal decree of which I can speak is that concerning the appointment for the Public Accounting Commission and a royal decree of organization. I asked to accelerate the step because I do not fundamentally understand what could still prevent us from moving forward.

Mr. Pope, I agree with your analysis. These are important technical matters. I hope I will be able to come before you soon if you have any questions about this and explain what it is about.