Constitutional Court’s annulment decision on the Central Government Final Account Law was published in the Official Gazette

According to the decision published in the Official Gazette, the Constitutional Court, with its decision taken on April 4, 2024, found paragraph (2) of Article 4 of the 2022 Central Government Final Account Law to be unconstitutional. The Supreme Court rejected this request on the grounds that the conditions for the request to suspend the enforcement of the relevant regulation were not met. However, it ruled by majority vote that the clause was unconstitutional.

In the petition, it was stated that the over-allocation expenses incurred by public administrations within the scope of central government due to compulsory reasons contradict the provisions of Law No. 5018 and that this situation violates the budget right of the legislative body. In the paragraph requested to be canceled, it was envisaged that the over-appropriation expenses of public administrations for 2022 would be covered from the unused appropriation.