OREANDA-NEWS. March 16, 2010. Revenues worth 1,888.9 billion lei (108.8 million euros) were amassed in the state budget in January-February 2010, which accounts for 95.6 per cent of the indexes planned for this period.

The revenues increased by 153.3 million lei against the first two months of 2009 or by 8.8 per cent, according to data by the Finance Ministry.

Finance Minister Veaceslav Negruta has said that on this period the State Fiscal Inspectorate fulfilled the plan of accumulation of state budget revenues at 87.4 per cent, and the Customs Service at 100.1 per cent.
 
The average daily revenues amounted to 40.5 million lei, up by 5 million lei against the same period of 2009.

The minister said that expenses of 2,305.6 billion lei were made in January-February 2010, which accounts for 79.1 per cent of the indexes seen in the budget for this period.

The spending grew by 18.6 million lei or by 0.8 per cent against the first two month of 2009.

Most spending was made to maintain staff and the thermal and energy sector, to make transfers to the budgets of the administrative and territorial units and to the road fund, to pay pensions to servicemen and scholarships, to honour the state debt, etc., the finance minister said.