1. Ministry of Finance of Estonia, State Budget Department Partnership and financing Katre Eljas-Taal Ministry of Finance

2. Ministry of Finance of Estonia, State Budget Department National Development Plan 2004-2006 More than 80 different partners were involved in the process of National Development Plan (NDP): Representatives of local governments and municipalities Professional associations NGOs and foundations

3. Ministry of Finance of Estonia, State Budget Department Network of Partners Ministry of Education Government Ministry of Finance Partners Estonian Bank State Chancellery Office of Prime Minister Center of Political Studies Praxis Tartu University Tallinn Technical University NDP working group European Commission Delegation in Estonia Finnish Ministry of Internal Affairs University of Jyväskyla Economic and Social research Institute (Ireland) Pre-Accession Advisers Ministry of Agriculture Ministry of Social Affairs Ministry of Economic Affairs Ministry of Transport and Communic. Ministry of Environment Ministry of Internal Affairs P a r t n e r s

4. Ministry of Finance of Estonia, State Budget Department State Budget Strategy 2007-2010 For the EU programming period 2007-2013 Estonia merges two strategic documents: State Budget Strategy 2007-2010 National Development Plan

5. Ministry of Finance of Estonia, State Budget Department State Budget Strategy 2007-2010 Objective of the merging: To organize annual budgetary process - merge planning and using of national and EU sources To make the budgetary process more clear and rational To simplify the budgetary process

6. Ministry of Finance of Estonia, State Budget Department State Budget Strategy 2007-2010 STATE BUDGET STRATEGY 2007-2010 STRUCTURAL FUNDS Cohesion Policy 2007-2013 Operational Programme ERDF ESF CFCF EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL FUND FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT EUROPEAN FUND FOR FISHERIES ESTONIAEUROPEAN UNION STATE BUDGET National sources EU funds Rural Development Plan

7. Ministry of Finance of Estonia, State Budget Department Partnership for 2007-2013 Ministry of Finance

8. Ministry of Finance of Estonia, State Budget Department State Budget Strategy 2007-2010 Network of Partners Ministry of Education Government Ministry of Finance Partners EX-ante team State Budget Strategy working group European Commission Ministry of Agriculture Ministry of Social Affairs Ministry of Economy and Communic. Ministry of Environment Ministry of Internal Affairs P a r t n e r s (Local governments, NGOs, other organizations) Environment Impact Assessment team

9. Ministry of Finance of Estonia, State Budget Department State Budget Strategy 2007-2010 Timetable STATE BUDGET STRATEGY 2007-2010 20052006 Operational Programmes Community Strategic Guidelines State Budget Strategy 2007-2010 including National Strategic Reference Framework State Budget Strategy 2007-2010 adopted by the Government National Strategic Reference Framework and Operational Programmes adopted by European Commission

10. Ministry of Finance of Estonia, State Budget Department State Budget Strategy 2007-2010 Consultation To make the consultation process more organized and to harmonize the quality of consultation the Ministry of Finance has worked out The Main Principles of Consultation

11. Ministry of Finance of Estonia, State Budget Department State Budget Strategy 2007-2010 Main Principles of Consultation The responsibility to involve partners to the process of State Budget Strategy 2007-2010 lies on ministries The Ministry of Finance and all line ministries have to update information on their homepages continuously Ministry of Finance provides twice a year information seminars Partner’s comments on working documents should be presented to the line ministry (during min 2 weeks and max 8 weeks)