On 10-11 June 2018 is planned 4th Meeting of Baltic-Nordic Independent fiscal institutions
Welcoming dinner on 10 June
Meeting on 11 June
Venue: Riga, Aspazijas Boulevard 28, 2nd floor, EU house
Working language: English.
Meeting agenda
10:00 registration, welcome coffee
10:15 short introduction by Jānis Platais, hosting Council Chairman
10:20 short introductions by each Independent fiscal institution (IFI)
10:45 Ex-post assessment of reliability of MoF macro-economic (short-term) forecasts, Arto Kokkinen, presentation, reports, National Audit Office of Finland
11:15 Fiscal sustainability, Seppo Orjasniemi, presentation, Economic Policy Council, Finland
11:45 short break (coffee & snacks)
12:00 Macroeconomic heatmap for Estonia, Lauri Punga, presentation, Estonia
12:30 Public private partnership projects' fiscal risk, Viktors Miglinieks, presentation, Latvia
13:00 lunch break
14:00 Tax forecasting error decomposition, Saulė Skripkauskienė, presentation, Lithuania
14:30 Swedish Fiscal policy council presentation, Niklas Frank, Sweden
15:00 short break (coffee & snacks)
15:15 roundtable discussion
Topic 1: Main findings of the assessment of the 2018 Stability program, introductory presentation by Erika Latyšovič, Lithuania
Topic 2: Monitoring of the fiscal discipline of municipalities, introductory presentation by Jānis Platais, Latvia
Topic 3: Role of EU funding in government finance, introductory presentation by Urmas Varblane, Estonia
16:15 concluding remarks