Finance Minister Ionut Misa said all public institutions have enough funds to operate properly, as the country’s GDP rose from RON815.2 billion to RON837.1 billion.
The Agriculture ministry got an extra RON1.8 billion at the revision, the Interior ministry got RON1.2 billion, the Health ministry received RON431 million, the Labor ministry got RON795 million, the Finance ministry got RON2,464 million and the Justice ministry got RON357.4 million.
Local budgets were also increased by RON680.1 million.
Budgets of the ministries of Regional Development, Transport and IT&C were lowered by RON1.980 million, RON6.249.1 million and RON303.4 million, respectively, at the budget revision.
Romania’s gross domestic product grew 5.8% on the year in the first six months of 2017 and the government expects GDP growth of 5.6% for the full year. This year’s state budget was built on an economic growth projection of 5.2%.