Hello dear participant !

Welcome to our training workshop on drawing up and updating commitment plans.

In this Sequence 17, we will look at the process of drawing up the final Consolidated Commitment Plan.

In the previous sequence, we saw that the initial CCP aggregates the data from all the initial SCP, in a format close to that of the Treasury department.  In this sequence, we’ll look at the steps involved in producing the final CCP, which is an update of the initial CCP.

The initial CCP is examined during a frank and realistic dialogue between DGB and Treasury department officials within the Treasury and the Budgetary Regulation Committee. During this dialogue, the needs expressed in the initial CCP are compared with the forecast availability of resources. On this basis, modifications to the initial CCP are prescribed. Once all modifications have been made, the final Consolidated Commitment Plan is produced.

The final CCP is a central-level tool. Decisions taken by the Budget and Cash Position Control Committee must be implemented at sector level. The DGB is responsible for passing on these decisions to the sectoral level. This is done by means of instructions to the various administrations, indicating the commitment ceilings to be respected. The explanatory notes accompanying each initial SCP are used to make the instructions as objective as possible.

Administrations revise their initial commitment plans on the basis of guidelines issued by the DGB, within the framework of the management dialogue organized at both ministerial and program level.

Finalized sectoral commitment plans are forwarded to the DGB for verification of compliance with instructions, and then implemented in the budget information system at the request of the Director General of Budget, the system administrator. Through this operation, commitment plans will replace the current practice of quarterly commitment quotas as part of budgetary regulation.

From this sequence, you should note that the initial CCP is modified by the Budget and Cash Position Control Committee to give rise to the final CCP. The modifications decided at central level are then passed on to the sectoral administrations via instructions received from the DGB. Implementation of these instructions results in the final SCP, which will be implemented in the budget information system and used as a binding regulatory tool.