Assistant Director-General for General Budget Programmes

Assistant Director General Beatriz Rodríguez Alcobendas

Directorate

Telephone number: 91 583 75 41

Functions

With regard to expenditure policies and programmes within the functional scope of its powers, it shall exercise the functions referred to in the following paragraphs:

• The implementation and monitoring of budgetary policy objectives and the elaboration of criteria for their achievement.
• The drafting of regulations and instructions to guide the annual formulation of the General State Budgets and the coordination of the process of drafting them. In particular:
  • The formulation of the proposal for budgetary stability objectives and the State's non-financial spending limit.
  • The preparation of studies reporting on the decisions of the Committee on Expenditure Policy.
  • The determination of the quantitative limits and guidelines to be respected by the management centres' spending proposals, in accordance with the decisions of the Committee on Spending Policy and the approved non-financial spending limit.
  • Preparation of the expenditure and revenue statements of the preliminary draft General State Budget on the basis of the estimates of revenue and appropriations proposed by the management centres.
  • Coordination and control of the budgetary allocation of the appropriations associated with the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan and its addendum.
  • Coordination and preparation of documentation to accompany the draft General State Budget Act.
  • Analysis of the territorial distribution of investment projects to be included or financed in the General State Budgets, in order to facilitate the analysis of the coherence of public investment as a whole.
• To provide the necessary support during the parliamentary debate process for the draft Law on General State Budgets and to implement the amendments to the expenditure and income statements approved by the General Courts.
• The report of the legal and regulatory provisions, at the stage of preparation and approval, of administrative acts, contracts and agreements, as well as of any other action affecting present or future public expenditure or revenue, in accordance with the requirements of the principles of budgetary stability and financial sustainability, when established by the applicable legislation or requested by the bodies on which it depends.
• The analysis and study of the objectives set for the management centres in the budget, as well as the application of the appropriations allocated to them, with a view to an effective budgetary allocation.
• Analysis of the evolution and execution of the income and expenses reflected in the General State Budgets.