The decree comprises a number of measures. Most of the provisions (worth € billion) involve central government departments and consist in supplementary appropriations or attenuations of spending constraints enacted in previous budgets. In particular, with an effect valued at € billion, the decree frees the funds that ministries were obliged to set aside in unavailable reserves under the Finance Law for 2007.
It also appropriates funds to increase low pensions € billion), for humanitarian aid € billion), for current transfers to public enterprises € billion), and  2  BIS Review 92/2007  for short-term substitution of school personnel € billion). Finally, it allocates € billion and € billion for the modernization of the road and railway networks, respectively.