BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3801

HR-BULLETINS-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3801 BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3801HINA Zagreb Nov. 3, 2000GOVERNMENT FORWARDS MOTION OF REVISED BUDGET TO PARLIAMENT ZAGREB, Nov 3 (Hina) - According to a moved revision of this year's budget, which the government forwarded into parliamentary procedure on Friday, the current budgetary expenditures would be increased by 193 million kuna (about US$21.44 million). This is only 0.38 percent more than the budget itself, Finance Minister Mato Crkvenac said, stressing he was "very satisfied" with this, because the realisation of such a budget this year, which is smaller than last year's, meant a definite turning point in the budgetary and fiscal policy. The draft revision stipulates total expenditure of 50.663 billion kuna (US$5.63 billion), which is an increase of 2.366 billion kuna (US$263 million) in relation to the set 48.3 billion kuna (US$5.36 billion) Most revisions are technical, that is, a change in the structure of i