Blocking of Budget Expenditures
Budget expenditure blockage - reduction of budget obligation limits compared to budget appropriations or refusal to confirm accepted budget obligations, if budget appropriations in accordance with the law (decision) on the budget were allocated to the main budgetary authority (subject of the Russian Federation, municipal formation or another recipient of budget funds) for the fulfillment of certain conditions; however, at the time of preparing the limits of budget obligations or confirming accepted budget obligations, these conditions turned out to be unfulfilled (ceased to be in force as of 1999-12-31)1.
Budget Code of the Russian Federation dated 31.07.1998, amended on 1998-07-31, Article 231, paragraph 1, ceased to be in force as of 1999-12-31 // RSZ RF. 1998. No. 31. Art. 3823. ↩