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Tomašević Presents Application for Transparency of Zagreb’s Budget

Tomislav Tomašević
Tomislav Tomašević

The City of Zagreb has launched a web application that allows for complete transparent insight into the spending of the City of Zagreb’s budget, and through the application, the public can review all bank transactions of the City with legal and natural persons, starting from January 1, 2024. This means that from now on, citizens and all interested parties have direct access to information about payments from the City of Zagreb’s budget, which can be searched according to various parameters, as stated in the announcement.

– The City of Zagreb is opening up to the public in a way that is unprecedented, considering the size of the budget and the number of transactions. We are the largest public authority system that has such high financial transparency, and this is a historic step in financial transparency not only for Zagreb but for the entire Republic of Croatia – said the Mayor of the City of Zagreb Tomislav Tomašević.

– This is ultimate transparency when we talk about finances – added Tomašević, reminding that as early as 2023, the City of Zagreb introduced the practice of publishing the budget at the fourth level of detail, although the legal obligation is only the second level of detail.

Daily, around 400 bank transactions are conducted through the City of Zagreb’s account, or about one hundred thousand transactions during one year, making the City of Zagreb by far the largest system in Croatia that has enabled transparent insight into its budget in this way, in accordance with the Budget Act, which obliges local units to publicly disclose data on payments from their bank accounts.

We remind you that the budget of the City of Zagreb for 2024 amounts to approximately 2.5 billion euros, and the next largest city is Split, with a budget of 330 million euros in 2024.

Data in the application can be filtered by various parameters, recipient, amount, position in the budget, and it is also possible to export data in machine-readable format, the announcement adds.

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