TY - JOUR
TI - Limitation of public debt on the verge of financial crisis
AU - Vuongova, Andrea
TI - Limitation of public debt on the verge of financial crisis
AB - The foretaste of the financial crisis raises the question of the functioning, application and enforcement of measures to ensure sound and sustainable public finances. The limitation of public debt was enshrined in law in the Czech legal system in 2017, and in April of this year one of the established fiscal rules was amended. The aim of this article is to critically analyze the adjustment of the public debt limitation that has been undertaken in the context of the current crisis caused by the spread of COVID-19. The introduction of the article will describe the European and Czech context of the limitation of public debt and setting budgetary responsibility. Subsequently, the article briefly summarizes the effects of the coronavirus crisis on the implementation of the state budget and, consequently, the justification for the legislative change of the set fiscal rule.
The methods used in the article are mainly the method of literary research relevant sources, the method of description of the limitation of the public debt regulation in European union and in passages describing the current state of budgetary responsibility rules. Method of evaluation appears in the parts of the work evaluating the legislative adjustments to budgetary responsibility rules due to the coronavirus crises.
VL - 2020
IS - Issue 20 (4)/ 2020
PY - 2020
C1 - 2299-6834
SP - 105
EP - 117
DO - 10.4467/22996834FLR.20.023.13095
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/financial-law-review/article/limitation-of-public-debt-on-the-verge-of-financial-crisis
KW - budgetary responsibility; sound public finances; fiscal rules; expenditure rule; debt rule