Centre for Expenditure Policy

The division is responsible for the annual budget process and the general expenditure policy. The division’s tasks include general coordination with regards to expenditure policy, implementation of the Budget Law, rules of budget and appropriations, monitoring expenditures in central government and conducting cross-sectional expenditure analyses. In addition, the division is responsible for the national budget bill’s § 35. General Reserves and responsible of coordination of the common sections on the budget bill.

The division’s work on public finances includes fiscal policy, fiscal effect, general government budget balance, public consumption, public employment, public investment, public price and wage development, general government budget statistics and the publication of Udgiftslofter og statens finanser. In addition, the division coordinates general cross-sectional processes.