About web-portal - "Open Budget"

Ministry of Finance of the KR launched Internet portal "Transparent Budget" (the portal), which is an automated system for providing data on revenues and expenditures of the republican and local budgets on the Internet.

The first time in the history of Kyrgyz citizens and organizations have free access to the data on implementation of state budget in a detailed and up to date as a public Web portal. The data presented in the context of government departments, regional offices, to individual recipients by TIN. This portal is updated online avtomaticheskiputem retrieve data from an information system of the Treasury.

Portal does not publish data related to the provision of information to which access is restricted in accordance with the laws of the KR.

Through the Portal implemented the principle of transparency of budgetary data for a wide range of stakeholders, the link budget to performance of state bodies and local authorities. This resource makes information accessible to all users on the Internet.

Legal basis for the functioning of the Portal

The Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic sets:

  • Article 6: The Constitution has the supreme legal force and direct effect in the Kyrgyz Republic.
  • Article 33: Everyone has the right to freely seek, receive, store, use the information and disseminate it orally, in writing or otherwise.
  • Everyone has the right to receive information about the activities of state bodies, local authorities and their officials, legal entities with state agencies and local governments and organizations financed from the republican and local budgets.
  • Everyone is guaranteed access to information held by public bodies, local authorities and their officials. The procedure for providing information is determined by law.

KR Law "On Access to information held by public bodies and local self-government of the KR" states that:

  • Article 17. Disclosure of information on current decisions and official events:  " public bodies and local authorities publicize official information on the adoption of the republican and local budgets KR , as well as the budgets of state agencies and local governments, changes in interest rates and order payment of the national and local taxes and fees, including utilities and other payments.
  • Article 18. Annual reports on progress: government agencies and local governments make public reports on its activities during the reporting period ... main statistical indicators in such areas as budget funds, the sources and amounts of tax revenue to the national budget and local budgets.
  • Article 20. Responsibilities of state agencies and local authorities to ensure the dissemination of information: State bodies and local authorities are required annually and in an accessible form to disclose information, includes:
    1. their functions and tasks, powers, duties and annual budget ;
    2. information on the performance of public bodies and local self-government.

Given the above-said it should be noted that the functioning of the Portal does not violate the requirements of the law relating to access physical and legal persons to information held by public bodies and local self-government. The portal facilitates practical implementation of the Law "On Access to information held by public bodies and local authorities KR».