The agenda for this Section includes the Department's income and expenses, and the annual budgets. It is responsible for preparing the budgets and ensures their approval and control of their implementation. It maintains and monitors the status and level of appropriations from month to month, and ensures that supplementary appropriations are approved where the approved funds prove to be insufficient.

The income and expenses of the Department in the year 2021 were:

Income: €89,985,001.21

Expenses: €65,811,019.26

This Section also deals with the preparation of the personnel’s payroll and makes payments on the basis of invoices received. Furthermore, this Section deals with the preparation of the activity-based budget, always in line with the strategic plan of the Department. Another responsibility of the Section is the transition to the new financial system ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), by coordinating the work done for this purpose.