Department of inter-budgetary relations

• ensuring of fulfilment of the Ministry's functions with respect to public policy development and legal regulation in budgeting activities concerning the relations of the federal budget with budgets of subjects of the Russian Federation, municipalities, as well as the housing and communal services sectors, relations between budgets of subjects of the Russian Federation and budgets of municipalities, and organization of the budgeting process in the Russian Federation and municipal entities;
• preparation of draft federal laws and regulations of the Russian President and the Russian Government, as well as other documents requiring a decision of the Russian Government on matters relating to the Department's scope of duties, for consideration of the Russian Government;
• development of laws and regulations with respect to the Department's scope of activities in due order, except for the issues that should be regulated exclusively by federal constitutional laws, federal laws, normative regulations of the Russian Federation, and the President of the Russian Federation, as stipulated by the Constitution, federal constitutional laws, federal laws of the Russian Federation, and decrees of the President and Government of the Russian Federation;
• preparation of draft federal budget as well as cover documents and records to be jointly considered by the State Duma under the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation with respect to financial relations with the budgets of subjects of the Russian Federation and the local budgets;
• compilation of consolidated budgets of subjects of the Russian Federation; monitoring and analysis of budgetary performance of subjects of the Russian Federation and local budgets; filing of reports and analytical statements on the performance of budgets by subjects of the Russian Federation as well as local budgets;
• determination of the amount, structure, and terms of inter-budget transfers from the federal budget to the budgets of subjects of the Russian Federation and local budgets within the scope of activities of the Department;
• determination of the amount of inter-budget transfers when meeting the federal budget and during the delivery thereof to budgets of subjects of the Russian Federation and local budgets;
• best practice guidance with respect to distribution and provision of transfers from the federal budget to the budgets of the Russian budgetary system, drawing up and meeting of the budgets of Russian Federation subjects and municipalities, as well as on the budgeting system reform, development and implementation of regional and municipal programmes to improve the efficiency of budget spending, and on anti-crisis measures for subjects of the Russian Federation and municipal entities;
• aid in the review and development of statements on the draft of the federal targeted investment programme for the next fiscal year and the scheduled period within the Department's scope of duties;
• funding of unexpected expenses undertaken by the Reserve Fund of the Russian Federation, the Russian Government Reserve Fund, and the President's Reserve Fund in order to prevent and eliminate emergency situations and natural disasters, as well as to provide economic and humanitarian aid to foreign countries and implement other state obligations related to foreign economic activities;
• consideration of documents justifying budget allocations from the Russian Government Reserve Fund to prevent and eliminate emergency situations and the aftermath of natural disasters, as well as for compensation to individuals and legal entities that have been impaired as a result of terrorist attacks and compensation for damage caused during the suppression of terrorist attacks by lawful measures;
• preparation of materials and arrangement of funding to implement the decisions of the Russian President and the Russian Government concerning budget allocations from the reserve funds;
• consideration of the reports on the targeted use of funds allocated from the reserve fund of the Russian Federation;
• preparation of materials concerning provision of humanitarian aid to foreign countries by of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry, as well as fulfilment of other state obligations related to foreign economic activities and funding of measures to implement the above;
• submission of proposals to draw up and readjust the consolidated budget breakdown of expenditures of the federal budget to the heads of the Ministry;
• duly preparation of proposals to provide repayable funds to the subjects of the Russian Federation and monitor the repayment thereof, as well as determine their source of repayment;
• development of skeleton agreements on the conditions of extra financial aid to the budgets of subjects of the Russian Federation;
• aid in the development of the procedure for the restructuring of debts of subjects of the Russian Federation and municipalities to the federal budget;
• participation in the reforming and financial rehabilitation of housing and communal services together with the federal executive authorities, including the development and implementation of governmental programmes in this area;
• development of state support measures for technology cities of the Russian Federation, closed subnational entities, single-industry municipalities, and other municipal units;
• development of proposals on standards for wage expenses and (or) the financial maintenance of public authorities of the Russian Federation;
• monitoring of the financial state of subjects of the Russian Federation and municipalities; quality assessment of financial management in the regions;
• participation in the efficiency assessment of the state administration bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation as well as the development of a methodology for efficiency assessment of local governance bodies;
• cooperation with the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation on the matters of inter-budget relations, the federal budget performance in terms of inter-budget transfers to subjects of the Russian Federation within the Department's scope of duties;
• consultations with representatives of international financial institutions on matters within the competence of the Department.