Article 1.

Is instituted, under Our Minister of State and under is responsibility, an Administrative Examination Agency.

Article 2.

The General Examiner have for attributions:

a) the control of the commitment, the authorization and the payment of public expenditure;

b) the control of public revenues;

c) the control of the closing of the budgetary accounts;

d) the control of the investment of public funds and the treasury operations.

The General Examiner formulates, also, a reasoned advice on any proposed law, of ordinance or decree, of any project of concession or of contract and in a general manner, on any measure that may have a financial repercussion.

Article 3.

The control defined above is applied to the administrative services of the State and of the municipality, as well as to autonomous public establishments. It is exercised on the foundations, associations, companies or enterprises of any nature that benefit either from subsidies, either of any other financial benefit from the State. The modalities of this control are fixed by Our Minister of State who will define the conditions of its application.

However, as far as the Municipality is concerned, the control is effectuated in a delay of fifteen days from the date of communication of the documents by the municipal services and, by derogation from article 2, does not concern the prior commitment of expenditure.

Article 4.

It cannot be proceeded to any payment by a public accountant if the expenditure or, in a general manner, the operation giving reason of this payment has not been submitted to the prior control by the General Examiner.