The budget calendar
On its site, the Ministry of the Economy writes that the first five months of the year, from January to Mayserve in particular to prepare the budget of the following year.
From Julywe enter the arbitration phase: “The Prime Minister (…) Address to the ministers a letter stopping the credit and jobs ceilings allocated to them. Expenditure and job ceilings and performance indicators are subject to a report presented in Parliament. »»
As we explained in July 2024, “The organic law relating to the finance laws provides that the government presents to parliamentarians, before July 15, a first assessment of the expenses incurred for the coming year”. Moreover, “Before being proposed to the National Assembly, the finance bill is subject to the High Council for Public Finance, for opinion on the“ coherence of the bill, (…) as well as [sur] The realism of the forecasts of revenue and expenditure of the bill ”, and to the Council of State, which verifies the financial assessments of each of the articles”.
The parliamentary phase begins in the fall And can last until the end of December. After being adopted in the Council of Ministers, the finance bill is “Deposited on the office of the National Assembly at the latest on the first Tuesday in October”recalls the Ministry of the Economy, and is then discussed, amended and voted in the National Assembly before reaching the Senate. The Ministry of the Economy specifies that in total “Parliament has seventy days to vote the bill”forty for the first reading in the assembly, twenty for the first reading in the Senate and ten for the parliamentary shuttle.
Once adopted by Parliament, the Constitutional Council can be seized to verify the constitutionality of the bill. The law is finally promulgated by the president and published in the Official Journal « no later than December 31 ».
