The
mandates of the Ministry of Budget and State Entities are
defined by the Decree No. 2021-190 of April 28, 2021 on the powers of
members of the Government. According to Article 13 of the said decree, the Ministry of Budget and
State Entities is responsible for implementing the Government's policy on
budgetary, customs and tax matters, public procurement and management of the
State Entities. To carry out
its duties, the Office of the Ministry of Budget and State Entities is
organized around the following departments:
- The Macroeconomic Analysis Department;
- The Budget and Public Procurement Department;
- The Taxation Department;
- The State Entities Management and Project Monitoring Department;
- The Support Functions Department.
The
detailed mandates of the Ministry are as follows:
Budgetary matters
- Prepare and
present Finance Bills and Settlement Bills;
- Monitor the
implementation of the budget;
- Approve public
contracts and leases to be awarded by the State;
- Financially manage the State's
administrative assets and property;
- Participate in the management of the
State's real estate assets abroad, in liaison with the Ministries of
Foreign Affairs, Construction, Economy and Finance;
- Participate in
the negotiation and signature of agreements and conventions of an economic
and financial nature, in particular those concerning all external
financial assistance, loan contracts, loans and deferred payment
conventions, including 1itrisations, contracted by the State and
decentralized communities, in liaison with the Minister in charge of the Economy
and Finance.
Customs matters
Prepare and implement draft legislation and regulations in customs matters;Prepare and follow-up on bilateral and multilateral customs agreements;Collect gate receipts and secure the national economic territory;Follow-up on customs instruments of sub-regional and African integration, particularly those regarding the Economic Community of West-African States (ECOWAS), the West-African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), the African Union (AU) and the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA).
Domestic tax matters
- Implementation of fiscal and parafiscal
policy, legislation and regulations;
- Prepare,
negotiate and implement, international tax conventions;
- Design, create
and manage land registration
in urban and rural areas;
- Conduct Land and mortgage registrations;
- Collect tax revenues;
- Promote fiscal
civic-mindedness.
Management of State entities
- Financially
supervise National Public Establishments, State Entities, Entities with
public financial participation, executive agencies and legal entities of a
particular type;
- Conduct
permanent budgetary controls of National Public Establishments and approve
their accounts;
- Monitor, control
and assess State Entities;
- Represent the
State in the constituent and general assemblies of State Entities,
Entities with public financial participation, National Public
Establishments, executive agencies and legal entities of a special type;
- Represent the
State on the management boards and boards of directors of State- Entities, Entities with public financial
participation, National Public Establishments and legal entities of a
special type, in conjunction with the Ministry in charge of the Economy
and Finance and the Ministry responsible for technical supervision;
- Monitor and
manage the indebtedness of State Entities, Entities with public financial
participation, national public establishments, executive agencies, and
legal entities of a special type, in liaison with the Minister in charge
of the Economy and Finance
- Monitor
privatization and post-privatization operations of State Entities,
Entities with public financial participation, executive agencies, and
legal entities of a particular type, in liaison with the Minister in
charge of the Economy and Finance and the Ministers responsible for technical
supervision
- Manage the
liquidation of National Public Establishments, Entities with public
financial participation, executive agencies and legal entities of a
particular type, in liaison with the Ministry in charge of the Economy and
Finance, and management of the liquidation of real estate, in liaison with
the Ministry in charge of Construction;
- Participate in
any operation likely to have an impact on the State Entities, in
particular the creation, transformation, and participation in any operation
likely to have an impact on the State Entities, in particular the
creation, restructuring, and merger of Entities or the acquisition of
holdings.
Public procurement
- Advice and
technical and legal assistance to contracting
authorities and
project owners, in particular for the planning of public procurement and
support for the budgeting of orders;
- Examination and
authentication of tender documents;
- Examination of
contract approval files, in the cases provided for by the regulations
- Manage tax disputes;
- Centralization and publication of tenders in the Official Bulletin
of Public Markets of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire;
- Pre and post
controls of the regularity of public
procurement procedures, and
controls of the regulation application on public markets
at large;
- Validation of proposals for the award of contracts as well as authorization of
derogatory procedures;
- Monitoring and evaluation of the execution of public
contracts;
- Centralization and dissemination of regulations and any
other information on public procurement;
- Reform of regulations and procedures related to public
procurement;
- Supervision and control of the functioning of public
procurement units;
- Creation and
management of databases on public
procurement;
- Production of statistics and conduct of studies related to public
procurement.
