The Court of Auditors shows in a report published on Friday several irregularities regarding the measures taken by the Ponta Cabinet in 2014 which has budgetary illegal allocations from the Reserve Fund, this being increased, last year, 14.5 times. According the report of the Court of Auditors, several of the government decisions regarding budgetary allocations from the Reserve fund did not follow legal conditions. Moreover,the Reserve Fund at the disposal of the cabinet, destined to the financing of some urgent or unforeseen expenditure, was increased in 2014 14.5 times. ‘Through the government decisions which allocated sums from the Reserve Fund at the disposal of the government in 2014, for a large part of the expenditure the condition as urgent or unforeseen was not met, as art.30 of the law 500/2002 regarding publicfinances. For a large part of these situations, through simple ordnances, or emergency ordnances, the government approved derogations from the provisions of art.30 of the law 500/2002 regarding the public finances, thus making the mechanism through the reserve fund at the disposal of the government to allocate sums to officers without being’ urgent and unforeseen during the budgetaru exercise’ . The Reserve Fund at the disposal of the government was increased in 2014 14.5 times’ the report of the Court of Auditors said. Thus, if at the beginning of 2014 in the law 356/2013 of the state budget for 2014 was included the sum of 161,269,000 lei, the Reserve Fund was supplemented to the end of 2014 the sum of 2,340,670 lei (with the sum of 1,040,100,000 lei through the two budgetary amendments and with the sum of 1,139,301,000 lei according to the law 500/2002 regarding public finances).
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