The seventeenth session of the Finance Committee was held on 24 September 2004, and was chaired by the Committee’s chairman, Nenad Bogdanovic.

The session discussed and adopted the Report of the Ministry of Finance on the Receipts and Expenditure of the Budget of the Republic of Serbia for the period from 1 January to 31 August 2004.

The session was attended by the Minister of Finance in the Government of the Republic of Serbia, Mladjan Dinkic, who presented the Report and said that the budgetary receipts planned for this year would be fully realised. He added that greater budgetary receipts were the result of a rise in the gross national product.

The Committee began discussing the Report of the Ministry of Finance on the Public Debt of the Republic of Serbia, Loans and Obligations towards Foreign Creditors and Agreements Reached with the World Bank and Other Financial Institutions for the period from 1 January to 31 August 2004.