Constitutional protection to participants of budgetary relations in the Russian Federation

Abstract

Currently, municipal entities are actively using the constitutional legal way to protect their budget rights. The applicants are most often local administrations while representing urban districts and municipal districts, as well as urban and rural settlements. The subject of the appeal to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation in the previous three years was mainly the issues of the attribution of the expenditure obligation to public education, as well as the grounds and possibilities for the adoption by municipal entities of additional expenditure obligations, which were difficult for judicial consideration. An analysis of the “budgetary” decisions of the Constitutional Court of Russian Federation, the applicants for which the local self-government bodies acted, makes it possible to see that the problem of “careful and correct distribution of public powers between certain entities that are part of the general system of state and municipal power” remains unresolved, creating conflict situations. So, it requires the intervention of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.

Keywords:

budget disputes, municipalities, expenditure obligations of municipalities, transfer of state powers, additional expenditure obligations