Legal regulation of budgetary discipline

The thesis deals with the concept of budgetary discipline and various aspects of its possible enactment in the legal system of the Czech Republic and of the European Union. The aim is to analyze the current legal regulation in this field and suggest legislative changes that could improve its existent unsatisfactory state. The first chapter provides the theoretical basis for the subsequent analysis as well as for the recommendations presented in further chapters. The concepts of budgetary law, public budgets and budgetary discipline are defined here together with the basic principles of budgetary law. The stress is put on the principle of the long-term balance of public budgets that constitutes a starting point when examining budgetary discipline. The second chapter concentrates on the regulation of budgetary discipline in the Czech Republic. Taking into consideration the current situation, when the principle of long-term budgetary balance and consequently the budgetary discipline are almost totally ignored in our legal system, I decided to focus on the analysis of drafts that have regularly appeared since the 1990s and have never passed the Parliament. Regarding the valid legal regulation I centre on expenditure frameworks which are dealt with in the law on budgetary rules. The third chapter pays..