Any budget activity must be evaluated from the beginning – by evaluating the relevance of positions, instead of increasing the base for the next years without carefully evaluating the expenditure of previous years. In this work, there should be no red lines: the budget base should be evaluated in all ministries, including the priority ones, whose expenditure was not curtailed for 2016.
Meanwhile, the rate of decline in consumer prices has diminished due mainly to the rise in medical treatment costs in line with the reform of the medical insurance system. Looking at the conditions influencing price developments, import prices are expected to continue declining for the immediate future, due mainly to the lingering effects of the fall in crude oil prices.