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Public Finances

The Ministry analyses economic trends and government finances, and has lead responsibility within the government in planning and preparing the federal government’s budget.

Spend­ing Re­views The federal government has added annual spending reviews to its top-down method of preparing the federal budget. Find out more.

German Stability Programme 2021

On 21 April 2021, the fed­er­al cab­i­net adopt­ed Ger­many’s Sta­bil­i­ty Pro­gramme for 2021. In the re­port, the Fed­er­al Min­istry of Fi­nance pro­vides the EU with an overview of Ger­many’s me­di­um-term fis­cal plan­ning. With as­sis­tance pro­grammes and tar­get­ed in­vest­ments geared to­wards the fu­ture, the Ger­man gov­ern­ment is putting the con­di­tions in place for strong and sus­tain­able growth dur­ing the post-pan­dem­ic pe­ri­od. This will al­so serve to safe­guard sound fis­cal pol­i­cy in the fu­ture.

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Climate Action

On 9 Oc­to­ber 2019, the Ger­man fed­er­al cab­i­net ap­proved the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment’s Cli­mate Ac­tion Pro­gramme 2030, which rep­re­sents a step to­wards im­ple­ment­ing the Cli­mate Ac­tion Plan 2050. The aim is to en­sure that Ger­many meets its cli­mate pol­i­cy tar­gets. The ex­ten­sive pro­gramme in­cludes mea­sures for all sec­tors. Progress will be re­viewed on an on­go­ing ba­sis. The Fi­nance Min­istry is re­spon­si­ble for fi­nanc­ing the pro­gramme as well as for var­i­ous fis­cal mea­sures.

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Federal Budget Code

Work­ing trans­la­tion of the Fed­er­al Bud­get Code (Bun­de­shalt­sor­d­nung), the leg­is­la­tion which con­tains the core pro­vi­sion’s con­cern­ing the Fed­er­a­tion’s bud­get law.

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