1. Slovenia and Open Budget Survey
Mitja Čok, May 2017

2. Open Budget Survey (www.InternationalBudget.org)
Independent
International Budget Partnership
Biennial (2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017*)
Comparable
Based on international standards

3. Open Budget Survey (www.InternationalBudget.org)
Transparency
Participation
Oversight
16 indicators measuring opportunities for public participation
109 indicators measuring transparency (the Open Budget Index)
15 indicators measuring the strength of the legislature and auditors

4. Open Budget Survey (www.InternationalBudget.org)
Country experts complete survey
IBP review
External review
Government review
IBP final review
18 month process
Open Budget Index

5. Open Budget Index 2015 (www.InternationalBudget.org)
The average score for all survey countries is 45 out of 100.
78 countries score 60 or less, meaning they provide insufficient information.
17 countries score 20 or less, meaning scant or no information is available to the public.

6. Open Budget Index 2015 (www.InternationalBudget.org)

7. Slovenia - Open Budget Index 2015 (www.InternationalBudget.org)

8. Slovenia - Open Budget Index 2015 (www.InternationalBudget.org)

9. Slovenia - Open Budget Index 2015 (www.InternationalBudget.org)

10. Slovenia - Open Budget Index 2015 (www.InternationalBudget.org)

11. Slovenia - Open Budget Index 2015 (www.InternationalBudget.org)

12. Slovenia - Open Budget Index 2015 (www.InternationalBudget.org)

13. Slovenia - Open Budget Index 2015 (www.InternationalBudget.org)

14. Slovenia - Open Budget Index 2015 (www.InternationalBudget.org)

15. Slovenia – Recommendations(
Improving Transparency:
Pre-Budget Statement (published too late)
Citizen Budget (not published)
Increasing the comprehensiveness of the Executive Budget Proposal (expenditures for future years, public debt information)
Increasing the comprehensiveness of the Year-End Report
Improving Participation:
Enabling mechanisms for capturing public perspectives on budget matters
Ensuring that public is informed of public budget engagements
Providing feedback on how public perspectives have been captured and taken into account

16. Slovenia – Recommendations(
Improving Oversight:
Establishing a specialized budget research office for the legislature
Changes in 2016 and 2017:
Citizen Budget (Ministry of Finance, CEF)
Fiscal council (Fiskalni svet)