The Ministry of Finance published for comments the draft decree establishing the spending austerity plan 2022 for the bodies that are part of the General Budget of the Nation. In accordance with the draft decree, the entities must review everything from their contracting expenses to travel expenses, events, stationery and telephony.
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One of the points of the austerity plan establishes how the personnel plant and the organizational structure of the entities “can only be modified when said reform is at zero cost or generates savings in the entity’s expenses.” These reforms must be reported to the Administrative Department of Public Function and the Ministry of Finance, which must issue a concept.
In addition, entities should review the rareas that justify the hiring of personnel for the provision of professional services and management support. In addition, it seeks to “rationalize the recognition and payment of overtime hours and adjust them to the strictly necessary”, and that no vacation is accumulated.
Virtuality will be privileged in the organization and development of events and rationalize the provision of refreshments
The regulations also establish that virtual meetings should be promoted and given priority, when face-to-face activities involve physical displacement, and that all participants national and international air travel servers will be in economy class, except for flights of more than eight hours.
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In travel expenses, the draft decree indicates that state entities must reduce study commissions to the interior or exterior of the country and in the official delegations priority will be given to public servants whose participation is strictly necessary.
On the events side, it is also established that privilege virtuality in the organization and development, and among other measures, rationalize the provision of snacks and lunches to those strictly necessary.
Assignments of security schemes will be reviewed, and official vehicles will only be used for the fulfillment of functions. In addition, only automobiles with more than six years old can be acquired.
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Other measures tend because “they should refrain from entering into advertising and / or personalized advertising contracts that promote the management of the national government, such as: diaries, almanacs, notebooks, wells, glasses, pens, acquiring magazines or the like, printing reports, brochures or institutional texts “, or stationery and telephone expenses.
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