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Departments


Financial Revenues Department
The Financial Revenues Department is responsible for the following:
  • Follow-up data related to the revenues of local administrative units, sectors, central agencies and other entities related to the collection of public revenues through monthly reports stipulated in the budget, accounts and stores regulations.
  • Suggesting proposals related to regulating the self-revenue collected from ministries and other public bodies to ensure its supply to the public treasury.
  • Establishing a mechanism for settling the entitlements of public companies approved in the general budget and making accounting entries for them in coordination with the relevant parties within the Ministry.
  • Preparing periodic and annual follow-up reports on revenues and community share.
  • Take measures and arrangements to preserve the rights of the public treasury and determine the rates of consumption of capital expenditures and financial assets of public companies.
  • Taking measures and arrangements to preserve the rights of the public treasury and determining the rates of consumption of capital expenditures and financial assets of companies.
  • Follow up the central deductions related to public sector employees and match them with the competent authorities to take the necessary measures for settlement.
  • Preparing the periodic report on workflow of the department and referring it to the competent authorities in the Ministry.
Budget management

The Budget Department is specialized in the following:

  • Preparing the Annual Circular with the rules that must be followed to prepare the draft general budget and circulating it to the bodies whose budgets are subject to the law of the State's Financial System.
  • Receiving and compiling the projects of the general budget sent by the various administrative units that are subject to the law of the Financial System of the State and referring them to the Finance Committee along with the remarks of the Department.
  • Preparing the draft of Public Budget.
  • Keeping records of the Public Budget allocations and following up on any changes thereto.
  • Preparing statements of commitments and expenditures on development projects and updating them every three months.
  • Coordinating with the competent department of the Central Bank of Libya regarding the disposal of the public budget accounts and ensuring that the amounts approved in the budget are included in their accounts on a regular basis.
  • Preparing and issuing memos and reports regarding the presentation of the state's draft public budget and participating in the drafting of its draft law.
  • Follow-up on the revenues of the public budget in coordination with the relevant authorities and alerting them to any deviations on a timely basis.
  • Preparing financial authorizations for the public budget in accordance with the legally established forms and referring them to the concerned authorities after their approval.
  • Follow up on recurring spending operations and take into account the gradual spending throughout the fiscal year as much as possible and follow up the exchange operations in line with work necessities and meet its actual needs.
  • Follow up the surpluses from the allocations before the end of the fiscal year and work to return them to the public treasury and take legal measures in this regard in accordance with the regulating legislation.
  • Studying the requests of the various entities related to making amendments in their budget items, and preparing reports on those amendments.
  • Producing periodic reports on the implementation of the public budget.
  • Preparing periodic reports on the workflow of department and submitting them to the competent authorities in the Ministry.
Treasury Management

The Treasury Department specializes in the following:

  • Take the necessary measures to open the bank accounts of the State, follow up their movement in income and expenditure, prepare settlements for them, and submit monthly reports on them.
  • Suggesting proposals regarding determining the payments that may be paid in cash in accordance with the applicable financial legislations.
  • Suggesting Officials to be authorized for signing of the checks drawn on the accounts of the public treasury.
  • Take the necessary measures to print the financial receipts stipulated in the Budget, Accounts and Stores Regulations and review them to verify the correctness of their sequence and keep copies of the certificate issued by the printing press in the quantity that was printed from it.
  • Liquidate the allocations of public entities in the general budget in accordance with the prescribed financial arrangements.
  • Receiving a statement of the treasury movement at the end of each month from the financial services monitors in the local administrative units, and taking the necessary measures in this regard in accordance with the legislation in force.
  • Establishing the necessary mechanism to follow up on the fund’s journals and records of permanent advances in public entities and coordinate with the financial services monitors in the local administrative units, the internal audit office and the accounts management to ensure the implementation of the legislation in force.
  • Keeping records of payments made in foreign currencies to provide the concerned authorities with the necessary data to benefit from them when preparing studies for the use of the foreign currencies.
  • Participate in the annual inventory committees and committees for the destruction of valuable documents and the like, submit the necessary reports on the progress of their work, and keep their work records in accordance with what is decided in this regard.
  • Take the necessary measures to close the accounts of the public treasury and refer them to the Accounts Department on the legally specified dates.
  • Take the necessary measures regarding the comments received from the Internal Audit Office of the Ministry in relation to the work of the Department.
  • Preparing periodic reports on the workflow of the department and submitting them to the competent authorities in the Ministry.
Follow-up Department

The Follow-up Department is responsible for the following:

  • Follow up on the implementation of the Public Budget and prepare the follow-up reports stipulated by law.
  • Conducting an evaluation of the large and important public projects that are under implementation to demonstrate any deviations in their economic and technical feasibility and suggest the required treatments, including proposals to amend, postpone or stop the project.
  • Following up the implementation of development projects through the public entities that these projects are belong to in order to determine the extent to which they have achieved their objectives.
  • Alert to weaknesses or defects in sectoral and spatial coordination that would limit the benefit of the project upon completion of its implementation.
  • Contribute with the competent departments of the Ministry in preparing draft plans and programs of the Public Budget and clarify the necessary needs in coordination with the concerned authorities in light of the data provided by these authorities.
  • Following up the collection of data related to the implementation of the Public Budget with the ministries and agencies, and it may recommend stopping or recovering the funds released in favor of the public entity if it does not provide it with the required data.
  • Conducting field visits to verify the extent of implementation of the Public Budget.
  • Following up the decisions and instructions issued by the Council of Ministers regarding the work of the Ministry and its affiliated bodies, and following up on their implementation.
  • Follow-up on the decisions issued by the Ministry of Finance regarding the work of the Ministry and its affiliates.
  • Following up the preparation of responses to the Audit Bureau.
  • Follow-up on the performance of departments, offices and agencies affiliated with the Ministry and submit periodic reports on their performance.
  • Preparing periodic reports on the workflow of the department and submitting them to the competent authorities in the Ministry.
Accounts Department

Accounts Department is concerned with the following:

  • Organizing the accounting entries in accordance with what is determined by the law of the Financial System of the State and the budget, accounts and warehouse regulations, and the classification of expenses and revenues in the Public Budget.
  • Taking the necessary measures regarding copying the pages of the fund's journal and copying the receipts listed in those pages received from the financial services monitors in the local administrative units, analyzing them and making proposals thereon.
  • Collecting the monthly accounts of all public entities that are financed from the Public Budget, including those located abroad, and taking accounting procedures regarding preparing reports to close them in accordance with the legislation and regulations in force in this regard.
  • Preparing the Close Account of the State on the legally prescribed dates.
  • Follow-up and settlement of payments and receipts made outside the budget and preparing the necessary data about them.
  • Keeping a record of the names of the employees who are authorized to keep the financial covenants and permanent advances in the public authorities according to what is decided, keeping the declarations containing the remaining balance of the advance for each employee and following up its closure at the end of each financial year.
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  • Coordinate regarding granting permission to public authorities to open bank accounts and supervising them with the competent authorities in line with the legislation in force and alerting of any violations in this regard.
  • Preparing periodic reports on the workflow of the department and submitting them to the competent authorities in the Ministry.
Financial Controllers Department

The Financial Controllers Department is responsible for the following:

  • Proposing the designation of financial controllers and their assistants at home and abroad in accordance with the legislation in force.
  • Inspection of the financial controllers and their follow-up to ensure the proper performance and implementation of financial legislation, and to ensure that they carry out the tasks assigned to them from keeping accounting records and keeping them in accordance with the law of the financial system of the State and the regulations issued pursuant thereto, and alerting about any shortcomings, omissions or violations of the law in the performance of their duties.
  • Receiving the periodic monthly reports prepared by the financial controllers of the various public administrative units, studying and evaluating them, and referring them to the competent authorities in the Ministry together with the Department opinion in this regard.
  • Participation in the committees charged with inspecting scrap items in various public administrative units in accordance with the provisions of the budget, accounts and stores regulations.
  • Take the necessary measures regarding the observations received from the Internal Audit Office of the Ministry.
  • Preparing periodic reports on the workflow of the department and submitting them to the competent authorities in the Ministry.
Administrative and Financial Affairs Department

The Administrative and Financial Affairs Department is responsible for the following:

  • Preparing procedures related to personnel affairs such as appointment, promotion, transfer, delegation, secondment, leave, discipline and other functional matters in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations in this regard.
  • Preparing and counting job needs and setting plans and training programs and qualifying the employees of the administrative apparatus of the Ministry in order to achieve raising their performance in coordination with the organizational divisions of the administrative apparatus.
  • Carrying out the public services stipulated in Law No. (19) for the year 1998, regarding the organization of the services of administrative units for its affiliates and its executive regulations.
  • Maintaining the facilities of the administrative apparatus of the Ministry and taking care of their cleanliness and maintenance periodically.
  • Carrying out work related to archives affairs and organizing them in a way that ensures the recording and circulation of substantive files, documents and correspondence, their preservation and ease of reference, and supervising printing, copying and photocopying, and introducing mechanization in these areas.
  • Preparing the draft budget of Ministry and initiating all financial procedures to implement it in accordance with the legislation in force, providing the Ministry's needs, and providing the stores with the necessary items within the limits of the approved appropriations.
  • Circulating relevant legislation and circulars on the organizational divisions of the Ministry.
  • Undertook the secretariat of the Personnel Committee and the Disciplinary Council in the administrative apparatus, preparing, classifying, arranging and keeping the minutes of their sessions, taking the necessary measures to implement them and reporting them to the competent authorities.
  • Collecting the revenues of the administrative apparatus of the Ministry, preparing the salaries and entitlements of its employees, and carrying out customs clearance work for the equipment, machinery and tools imported by the agency to accomplish the tasks assigned to it.
  • Carrying out the treasury work of the administrative body of the Ministry.
  • Preparing plans to develop the institutional performance of the Ministry.
  • Supervising the work of guarding, security and safety of the Ministry's facilities.
  • Supervising the work of guarding, security and safety of the Ministry's facilities.
Financial Institutions & Technical Cooperation

The Financial Institutions and Technical Cooperation Department is responsible for the following:

  • Proposing and implementing technical cooperation projects with international organizations and agencies to achieve the preparation and implementation of development plans and programs in coordination with the relevant authorities.
  • Suggesting ways to benefit from the technical assistance and work related to the Ministry of Finance provided by international organizations.
  • Studying draft agreements to be concluded in the areas of technical cooperation with countries and regional and international organizations and following up on their implementation.
  • Preparing research and studies for internal lending policies in the light of local and international financial developments, in coordination with the relevant authorities.
  • Studying and analyzing requests for lending to some countries from State of Libya in coordination with the competent authorities to ensure the availability of the necessary guarantees for repayment and to participate in the preparation of draft loan agreements in coordination with the relevant authorities and to follow up on the loans collection.
  • Take the necessary measures in order to collect the installments and interests of the loans granted on time, in accordance with the respective agreements, match them, submit a periodical thereto, and keep the official documents related to the lending agreements and debt clearances.
  • Coordination with the relevant authorities in listing all loans granted by public authorities, following up on data and information related to them, and all existing debts of the State and on it, and taking the necessary measures to match them.
  • Carrying out the procedures for collecting and paying the outstanding debts, matching the documents related to them with those concerned, and counting them and classifying them in the records in coordination with the competent authorities.
  • Studying periodic reports received from regional and international financial institutions and referring them to the relevant authorities, accompanied by the opinion of the Department in this regard.
  • Maintaining old debt files of foreign companies that carried out business in Libya during the previous periods, and working to take the necessary measures to settle them.
  • Preparing periodic reports on the workflow of the Department and referring them to the competent authorities in the Ministry.

Offices


Legal Affairs Office

The Legal Affairs Office is responsible for the following:

  • Follow-up on cases filed by and against the Ministry, and coordinate with the Cases Department, in preparing the necessary defense in respect of them and taking the necessary measures regarding judicial rulings that are implemented by the public treasury in coordination with the Budget Department.
  • Expressing opinion and legal advice on the topics presented to it, preparing and reviewing draft resolutions that the Ministry of Finance, Minister of Finance or Undersecretary of the Ministry are competent to issue.
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  • Preparing legal memoranda on topics that the Minister of Finance presents to the Council of Ministers.
  • Participating in the preparation of draft agreements to which the Ministry of Finance is a party in coordination with the relevant departments.
  • Participate in the drafting and reviewing of contracts related to the Ministry of Finance.
  • Examining complaints and conducting investigations on the topics and issues assigned to him.
  • Participate in the preparation of financial, tax and customs legislations and legislations related to human, economic and social development and propose what is necessary to amend them when needed in coordination with the organizational divisions and the relevant authorities.
  • Receiving the Official Journal and other legal encyclopedias, classifying them, keeping them, and organizing their circulation among the units of the administrative apparatus.
  • Stamping, recording and numbering decisions and preparing the necessary procedures for circulating and classifying them.
  • Preparing the necessary reports on the progress of work in the office, and submitting them to the competent authorities in the Ministry.
Internal Audit Office

The Internal Audit Office is responsible for the following:

  • Reviewing the transactions and procedures of the administrative apparatus of the Ministry to ensure the integrity of the procedures and the correct application of the legislation in force in particular.
  • Verify the assets and liabilities of the administrative apparatus and record them in the books in accordance with the law of the financial system of the State and the budget, accounts and warehouse regulation.
  • Follow up the financial and administrative conditions of the Ministry and prepare the necessary reports in this regard.
  • Inspection of general and specialized stores, accounting records of stores, procedures followed in receiving items, method of keeping and storing them, and verifying implementation of the budget, accounts and warehouse regulations.
  • Studying the observations and issues received from the regulatory authorities and preparing responses to them in coordination with the relevant departments and offices.
  • Preparing periodic reports on the progress of work in the office and submitting them to the competent authorities in the Ministry.
Martyrs of Duty Office

The Office of Martyrs of Duty specializes in the following:

  • Receiving, examining and sorting personal files and certificates of the last payment transferred from units of the administrative apparatus and other bodies for whom the status of (duty martyr) was established in accordance with the provisions of Law No. (12) of 1991.
  • Preparing a special record for each ministry or entity to record the names of the martyrs of duty whose files were transferred from it and documenting this data in the computer system.
  • Follow-up on the salaries of martyrs of duty whose files have been received, as well as other financial affairs such as entitlement to the annual increment, promotion, changes in the family allowance and any allowances determined by the legislation in force.
  • Responding to inquiries from the families of the martyrs of duty and cooperating with them in solving any problems related to the job status of the martyrs from the reality of personal files and in accordance with Law No. (12) for the year 1991.
  • Preparing the financial claim for the new files received by the office upon their arrival and taking the procedures for obtaining financial allocations and disbursing the salaries owed to the families of the martyrs.
Ministry Affairs Office

The Ministers Affairs Office is responsible for the following:

  • Receiving offices and reports addressed to the Minister, completing the necessary data about them, presenting them, and implementing the instructions issued in their regard.
  • Preparing correspondence and memoranda issued in the name of the Minister of Finance and the Undersecretary of the Ministry, and coordinating in this regard with the various administrative units affiliated with the Ministry in cases where the necessity so requires.
  • Setting the agendas of the meetings that are called upon at the request of the Minister in accordance with the directives issued in particular, preparing for those meetings, distributing their agendas, editing their minutes, informing the concerned authorities about them, following up on the implementation of any decisions, stamping, recording and circulating them, or any executive procedures issued by those meetings.
  • Organizing the Minister’s interviews and communications, providing the information and data that he requests, and keeping confidential documents in accordance with the controls set and decided by the Minister.
  • Participating in the internal and external meetings attended by the Minister, preparing the necessary reports on them and following them up with the competent authorities.
  • Examining the issues covered by the various media of interest to the Ministry of Finance, presenting them to the Minister, following them up and submitting proposals regarding them.
  • Classifying and keeping documents, reports and all documents related to the work of the Ministry Affairs Office.
  • Coordinating with all departments, authorities and offices, as well as the bodies within the supervision of the Ministry of Finance regarding the provision of any information or data requested by the Minister.
  • Preparing periodic reports on the progress of work in the office and submitting them to the competent authorities in the Ministry.