Denotes the amount of funds reserved from last year's budget (ingående reservationsanslag och ramöverföringsbelopp). Grants that cover multiple years have become increasingly common since the 1970s and now represent the most common type of grant. For these grants, the government first authorizes an agency in one year to use a given set of funds across multiple years, but with the caveat that the funds must be used for the same objective over the entire period. When the next fiscal year then eventually arrives, any potentially unresolved funds from the preceding year's grant are filed as an inbound budget reservation. Note that the reservation can be either a saving, in which case it corresponds to a positive amount, or a debt, in which case it corresponds to a negative amount. Further note that reservations can expire, after which they are filed as withdrawals (see section 4.2.2).
Type of variable: Continuous
Last updated by source: 2018-09-09