{"id":33333,"date":"2026-05-20T10:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/posudenie-plnenia-vydavkovych-limitov-v-roku-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:02:31","slug":"posudenie-plnenia-vydavkovych-limitov-v-roku-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/en\/posudenie-plnenia-vydavkovych-limitov-v-roku-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessment of Compliance with Expenditure Ceilings in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Find the complete analytical material, including the Appendix and the data file, in the download section below the article.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #13b5ea;\">Assessment of Compliance with Expenditure Ceilings in 2025<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Pursuant to obligations arising from Section 30(4) of Act No. 523\/2004 Coll. on General Government Budgetary Rules (hereinafter the \u201cAct\u201d), the Council for Budget Responsibility (CBR) assesses compliance of the budgetary outturn with the net expenditure path (the Stability and Growth Pact rule) and with the public expenditure ceiling (the national rule). At the same time, it publishes an analysis of the factors explaining deviations from the net expenditure path.<\/p>\n<p>The CBR assessment is based on data for 2023\u20132025 from the spring deficit and debt notification published by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic on 21 April 2026, supplemented by the CBR\u2019s own estimates of cyclical unemployment benefit expenditure and the impact of discretionary revenue measures.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #13b5ea;\">Incorrect initial calibration of the rules causes the ineffectiveness of expenditure ceilings in Slovakia<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The reformed Stability and Growth Pact (EU fiscal rules) was intended to enable countries to reduce deficits and debt in a sustainable and realistic manner through control of expenditure growth. Its objective was to stabilise public debt below 60% of GDP. Although this framework appears to be clearly defined at first glance, in the case of Slovakia, its initial calibration was flawed<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>, as also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/LRRZ_2024_DG-ECFIN_15-1.pdf\">pointed out<\/a> by the CBR.<\/p>\n<p>Under the applicable rules, the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic (MF SR) was the only entity authorised to request correction of this flawed initial calibration. Unlike several other EU Member States, however, the MF SR did not take such action. As a result of the passive approach of the MF SR in setting the rules<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a>, the current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/en\/failed-implementation-of-european-rules-in-slovakia-should-require-a-more-ambiotious-domestic-approach-to-mend-public-finances\/\">EU fiscal rules<\/a> now allow, according to the latest estimates, the achievement of a general government deficit of approximately 5.4% of GDP and public debt of 73.3% of GDP by the end of 2028.<\/p>\n<p>This implies that <strong>in Slovakia\u2019s case, mere compliance with EU rules would not be sufficient to ensure long-term sustainability of public finances<\/strong>. Since the national expenditure rule is derived from the EU fiscal rule, its functioning is likewise affected by this flawed initial calibration. <strong>Assessment of compliance with both rules therefore needs to be interpreted in this context.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #13b5ea;\">Growth of net expenditure in 2024 and 2025 (Stability and Growth Pact rule)<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>On 21 January 2025, the Council of the European Union <a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/HTML\/?uri=OJ:C_202500645\">approved<\/a> Slovakia\u2019s national medium-term fiscal-structural plan, including the maximum growth rate of net expenditure for individual years during 2025\u20132028 and the cumulative growth rate of net expenditure in 2028 compared to 2023 (Table\u00a01). <strong>In 2025, the rule allowed a cumulative growth in net expenditure of 10.3%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T1_Approved_expenditure_growth_trajectory_Stability_and_Growth_pact_requirements.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1451\" height=\"226\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T1_Approved_expenditure_growth_trajectory_Stability_and_Growth_pact_requirements.jpg\" alt=\"T1_Approved_expenditure_growth_trajectory_Stability_and_Growth_pact_requirements\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T1_Approved_expenditure_growth_trajectory_Stability_and_Growth_pact_requirements.jpg 1451w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T1_Approved_expenditure_growth_trajectory_Stability_and_Growth_pact_requirements-300x47.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T1_Approved_expenditure_growth_trajectory_Stability_and_Growth_pact_requirements-1024x159.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T1_Approved_expenditure_growth_trajectory_Stability_and_Growth_pact_requirements-768x120.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T1_Approved_expenditure_growth_trajectory_Stability_and_Growth_pact_requirements-480x75.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T1_Approved_expenditure_growth_trajectory_Stability_and_Growth_pact_requirements-992x155.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T1_Approved_expenditure_growth_trajectory_Stability_and_Growth_pact_requirements-1200x187.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1451px) 100vw, 1451px\" \/><\/a>Subsequently, on 8 July 2025, the Council of the European Union <a href=\"https:\/\/data.consilium.europa.eu\/doc\/document\/ST-10478-2025-INIT\/en\/pdf\">approved<\/a> activation of the national escape clause for the Slovak Republic, whereby the exemption allows defence expenditure in 2025\u20132028 to increase by up to 1.5% of GDP relative to the 2021 level without being included in expenditure subject to the ceiling<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When assessing compliance of the budgetary outturn with the net expenditure path, the CBR proceeded according to the definition of maximum net expenditure growth under the EU fiscal rules, whereby expenditure financed from the EU budget, co-financing, interest costs, cyclical unemployment expenditure and one-off impacts are deducted from total general government expenditure. Subsequently, after calculating the growth rate of net expenditure incorporating the effect of discretionary revenue measures, the impact of the defence exemption is also deducted. The CBR assesses compliance with the rule on a cumulative basis, which is fully consistent with the approach of the European Commission, which will assess the rule cumulatively in countries with an active national defence escape clause<a href=\"#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The CBR concludes that the net expenditure growth in 2025 (without applying the defence exemption) reached 1.3% year-on-year, which is 2.6 percentage points below the approved trajectory. <strong>Cumulative growth in net expenditure for 2024 and 2025, after inclusion of the defence exemption, reached 3.3%, thereby meeting the rule with a margin of 7.0 percentage points<\/strong><a href=\"#_ftn5\" name=\"_ftnref5\"><strong>[5]<\/strong><\/a> (Table 2). Such compliance with the rule is partly influenced by the government\u2019s consolidation measures approved at the end of 2023 and 2024, which increased revenues (thereby also increasing room for expenditure growth), as well as by factors outside the government\u2019s control (decline in energy subsidies due to falling energy prices). <strong>To a large extent, however, it is mainly the consequence of incorrectly calibrated rules for Slovakia<\/strong><a href=\"#_ftn6\" name=\"_ftnref6\"><strong>[6]<\/strong><\/a><strong>, since using the maximum room for expenditure growth allowed by the rule would have enabled the general government deficit to reach as high as 7.3% of GDP in 2025<\/strong><a href=\"#_ftn7\" name=\"_ftnref7\"><strong>[7]<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong> This is inconsistent with the main objective of the rule \u2013 to sustainably reduce the deficit below 3% of GDP and debt below 60% of GDP.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T2_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_year_on_year_net_expenditure_growth_rule.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1438\" height=\"746\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T2_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_year_on_year_net_expenditure_growth_rule.jpg\" alt=\"T2_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_year_on_year_net_expenditure_growth_rule\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T2_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_year_on_year_net_expenditure_growth_rule.jpg 1438w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T2_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_year_on_year_net_expenditure_growth_rule-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T2_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_year_on_year_net_expenditure_growth_rule-1024x531.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T2_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_year_on_year_net_expenditure_growth_rule-768x398.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T2_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_year_on_year_net_expenditure_growth_rule-480x249.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T2_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_year_on_year_net_expenditure_growth_rule-992x515.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T2_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_year_on_year_net_expenditure_growth_rule-1200x623.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1438px) 100vw, 1438px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><strong>Despite formal compliance with the rules, the development of public finances is significantly more negative <\/strong>than the original projected trajectory of deficit and debt by the European Commission. The Commission originally projected that compliance with the expenditure rule targets would stabilise debt and expected a deficit of 1.7% of GDP and debt of 61% of GDP in 2028. Currently, under compliance with the rules, the CBR estimates a deficit of 5.4% of GDP<a href=\"#_ftn8\" name=\"_ftnref8\">[8]<\/a> and debt of 73.3% of GDP in 2028.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #13b5ea;\">Analysis of factors explaining deviations from the net expenditure trajectory<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>By comparing the cumulative year-on-year development of individual expenditure categories (adjusted for the impact of EU funds, co-financing, interest costs and the economic cycle) with the maximum cumulative growth in net expenditure, the CBR calculated their contributions to the total deviation (Chart 1).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CH1_Contributions_to_the_actual_level_of_cumulative_growth_in_net_expenditure_in_2025.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1202\" height=\"843\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33339\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CH1_Contributions_to_the_actual_level_of_cumulative_growth_in_net_expenditure_in_2025.jpg\" alt=\"CH1_Contributions_to_the_actual_level_of_cumulative_growth_in_net_expenditure_in_2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CH1_Contributions_to_the_actual_level_of_cumulative_growth_in_net_expenditure_in_2025.jpg 1202w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CH1_Contributions_to_the_actual_level_of_cumulative_growth_in_net_expenditure_in_2025-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CH1_Contributions_to_the_actual_level_of_cumulative_growth_in_net_expenditure_in_2025-1024x718.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CH1_Contributions_to_the_actual_level_of_cumulative_growth_in_net_expenditure_in_2025-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CH1_Contributions_to_the_actual_level_of_cumulative_growth_in_net_expenditure_in_2025-480x337.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CH1_Contributions_to_the_actual_level_of_cumulative_growth_in_net_expenditure_in_2025-992x696.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CH1_Contributions_to_the_actual_level_of_cumulative_growth_in_net_expenditure_in_2025-1200x842.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1202px) 100vw, 1202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lower pace of growth in net expenditure was driven mainly by the substantial decline in expenditure related to extraordinary events, particularly energy subsidies, which recorded the sharpest decrease since 2023 (contribution of 4.2 percentage points). From the perspective of cumulative compliance with this expenditure rule, this only formally represents a permanent saving<a href=\"#_ftn9\" name=\"_ftnref9\">[9]<\/a>, provided that expenditure on energy subsidies does not return to the high levels seen in 2023. The reason is that this does not represent an active saving resulting from government policy, but merely reflects the natural decline in market prices from the extreme levels observed in 2023. A significant contribution also came from the decline in social transfers in 2025 (1.9 percentage points), mainly reflecting the reduction in the child tax credit approved back in 2022<a href=\"#_ftn10\" name=\"_ftnref10\">[10]<\/a>, as well as lower expenditure on sickness benefits and parental allowance in 2025. Investments outside the defence sector declined compared to 2023 (contribution of 1.7 percentage points).<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, expenditure on healthcare provided by health insurance companies (0.4 percentage points) and compensation of employees (0.3 percentage points) grew more rapidly, primarily reflecting wage indexation. However, the most pronounced increase in expenditure occurred in the defence sector (1.9 percentage points), mainly due to deliveries of military equipment in 2025. Given the defence exemption, however, the overall negative impact of defence amounted to only 0.4 percentage points.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #13b5ea;\">Public expenditure ceiling for 2025 (national rule)<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The nominal value of the public expenditure ceiling for 2025 was calculated by the MF SR based on the recommendation of the Council of the European Union, according to which growth in net primary expenditure in 2025 compared to 2024 should not exceed 3.8%. The same set of expenditure items fell under the public expenditure ceiling as under the definition of net primary expenditure in the reformed Stability and Growth Pact rules<a href=\"#_ftn11\" name=\"_ftnref11\">[11]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The public expenditure ceiling for 2025 was approved together with the general government budget for 2025-2027 on 3 December 2024, and its value was set at EUR 61,143,359,188. <strong>According to the CBR, the ceiling was met with a margin of EUR 1.4 billion <\/strong>(Table 3). If the assessment of the ceiling also incorporated differences in the estimate of discretionary revenue measures (DRM) compared to their value used in calculating the ceiling, and reflected the approved national defence escape clause allowing the established ceiling to be exceeded<a href=\"#_ftn12\" name=\"_ftnref12\">[12]<\/a>, the ceiling would have been met by EUR 2.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T3_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_nominul_public_expenditure_ceiling_in_2025.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1437\" height=\"643\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T3_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_nominul_public_expenditure_ceiling_in_2025.jpg\" alt=\"T3_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_nominul_public_expenditure_ceiling_in_2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T3_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_nominul_public_expenditure_ceiling_in_2025.jpg 1437w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T3_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_nominul_public_expenditure_ceiling_in_2025-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T3_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_nominul_public_expenditure_ceiling_in_2025-1024x458.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T3_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_nominul_public_expenditure_ceiling_in_2025-768x344.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T3_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_nominul_public_expenditure_ceiling_in_2025-480x215.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T3_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_nominul_public_expenditure_ceiling_in_2025-992x444.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/T3_Assessment_of_compliance_with_the_nominul_public_expenditure_ceiling_in_2025-1200x537.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1437px) 100vw, 1437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the nominally determined ceiling serves for operational budget management<a href=\"#_ftn13\" name=\"_ftnref13\">[13]<\/a> and is linked to the net expenditure growth rule under the Stability and Growth Pact, it is important for these rules to be mutually consistent. This is currently not the case, since under the nominally determined ceiling the deficit in 2025 could reach a maximum of 6.0% of GDP, while the EU rule allowed a deficit of as much as 7.3% of GDP. The main reason is the annual horizon of the national rule, since unlike the EU rule assessed cumulatively over several years, it does not take into account the degree of compliance with the ceiling in previous years. At the same time, the level of the nominally determined ceiling does not flexibly reflect changes in assumptions on the basis of which it was calculated<a href=\"#_ftn14\" name=\"_ftnref14\">[14]<\/a>. This mainly concerns changes in reported expenditure for the previous year and changes in the estimated impact of discretionary revenue measures.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This material only addresses the assessment of developments in Slovakia. However, a similar situation may also have arisen in other EU Member States where the calibrated net expenditure growth rules may not lead to a sufficient reduction in the deficit.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There is no legal basis for the European Commission to impose stricter assumptions on a Member State than those resulting from its own framework. Only the MF SR, officially on behalf of the Slovak Republic as an EU member state, could have requested such a revision, but it did not make use of this possibility.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The level of defence expenditure covered by the escape clause does not change the maximum permitted growth rate of net expenditure. However, the level of the exemption reduces the deviation of actual expenditure falling under the rule in the control account.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" name=\"_ftn4\">[4]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The European Commission will assess the rule for the first time in spring 2026, when, in the case of countries with an activated defence escape clause, it will assess compliance with the net expenditure growth rule cumulatively for 2024 and 2025.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"#_ftnref5\" name=\"_ftn5\">[5]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to the MF SR assessment, the rule was met with a margin of 6.5 percentage points. The difference in the results is explained almost exclusively by the estimated impacts of discretionary revenue measures in 2025. According to the MF SR, revenue measures generated additional revenues of EUR 1,446 million in 2025, whereas the CBR estimates their impact at EUR 1,673 million (the list of measures is provided in Annex 1).<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"#_ftnref6\" name=\"_ftn6\">[6]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Skop\u00e1l (2026), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rrz.sk\/en\/failed-implementation-of-european-rules-in-slovakia-should-require-a-more-ambiotious-domestic-approach-to-mend-public-finances\/\">Failed Implementation of European Rules in Slovakia Should Require a More Ambitious Domestic Approach to Mend Public Finances<\/a>.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"#_ftnref7\" name=\"_ftn7\">[7]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 2025, the general government deficit reached 4.5% of GDP.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"#_ftnref8\" name=\"_ftn8\">[8]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The defence exemption, which was not considered in the European Commission\u2019s original trajectory, contributes 0.7% of GDP to the 2028 deficit of 5.4% of GDP.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"#_ftnref9\" name=\"_ftn9\">[9]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From an economic perspective, this expenditure was only temporarily increased due to extremely high energy prices and its decline should therefore not be perceived as a structural reduction in expenditure resulting from government policy.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"#_ftnref10\" name=\"_ftn10\">[10]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The child tax credit was temporarily higher only in 2023 and 2024.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"#_ftnref11\" name=\"_ftn11\">[11]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Total general government expenditure was adjusted by deducting expenditure financed from the EU budget (standard EU funds, Recovery and Resilience Facility resources and EU grants), co-financing of joint Slovak Republic and EU programmes, interest costs, cyclical unemployment expenditure and one-off impacts (according to the EC approach \u2013 for example, the EC does not consider energy subsidies to be one-off expenditure, as these represent a discretionary government measure).<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"#_ftnref12\" name=\"_ftn12\">[12]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Act stipulates that the ceiling may be exceeded if an escape clause is activated, which also includes the approved exemption for defence expenditure. However, it does not define the method for assessing compliance with the nominal public expenditure ceiling, nor does it specify the factors that should be considered in its assessment. Incorporating the actual impact of discretionary revenue measures would be consistent with the fundamental rationale of the rule, i.e. it does not distinguish whether the set expenditure growth rate is achieved through revenue-side or expenditure-side consolidation measures. Another factor that could be taken into account in assessing compliance with the ceiling is the fact that expenditure for the base year 2024, from which the 2025 ceiling was calculated at the given expenditure growth rate, was also revised. However, the applicable Act does not provide for such an adjustment either.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"#_ftnref13\" name=\"_ftn13\">[13]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The MF SR allocates the nominal public expenditure ceiling into limits for individual general government entities, which are required to comply with them.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"#_ftnref14\" name=\"_ftn14\">[14]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to the MF SR, practical obstacles exist that prevent alignment of the two rules. Most inputs into the ceiling calculation change continuously and relatively frequently over time (estimated defence expenditure, amount of EU funds, expenditure of the previous year, discretionary revenue measures), which in practice makes it impossible to maintain a stable estimate of the nominal public expenditure ceiling. Moreover, the ceiling is subsequently distributed among individual budget chapters, which creates a significant implementation challenge if frequent updates are required.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find the complete analytical material, including the Appendix and the data file, in the download section below the article. 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