Vojvodina Spends a Third of Budget, Revenue Tops Half

The Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (APV) opened the eighteenth session of its current term on Thursday, August 27. The sitting began at 10 a.m. in the Grand Hall of the Assembly building in Novi Sad, with twelve items on the agenda. The first and largest concerned a report on how the provincial budget had been executed between January and June of this year.

The report shows that Vojvodina’s budget revenue and receipts for the first six months of 2026 came to 29,564,134,060.59 dinars, or 50.07 percent of the planned annual total of 59,044,041,338.59 dinars, meaning the province had already collected slightly more than half of its yearly plan by mid-year. Spending and expenditures over the same period were considerably lower, at 20,761,540,592.78 dinars, or 35.16 percent of plan. The gap between revenue collected and money spent, more than 8.5 billion dinars, shows that the pace of spending is lagging behind the pace of inflows.

The republic-level rebalance of the 2026 budget has been the subject of several sessions of Serbia’s National Assembly over the course of the year, and the public has been kept regularly informed about it. The provincial assembly had not previously published comparable half-year figures, making Thursday’s report the first opportunity to see how the provincial administration is executing its own budget against the plan adopted at the end of last year.

Beyond the budget, lawmakers also considered a proposal to designate the Donja Mostonga area near Sombor as a nature park, along with amendments to the protection decision for the Stratigraphic Profile at Filijala, Beocin, a protected natural monument. Also on the agenda was a spatial plan for a special-purpose infrastructure corridor for a 110-kilovolt power line meant to connect the Equinox Power plant’s transformer station with the Sombor 3 400/110-kilovolt substation.

Agriculture policy took up two items: amendments to the support program for agricultural policy and rural development policy in Vojvodina for 2026, and amendments to the annual program for the use of funds from the Budget Fund for Waters. Lawmakers also considered amendments to the founding decisions of the Novi Sad Academy of Applied Studies and the Sirmijum Academy of Applied Studies in Sremska Mitrovica, as well as a proposed cooperation agreement between the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and the Ungeni District in the Republic of Moldova.

The agenda closed with three reports on last year’s work: the 2025 annual report of the Institute for Urban Planning of Vojvodina, a report on the work of the Provincial Fund for the Development of Agriculture, and a report on the operations of the Tourism Organization of Vojvodina for 2025.

Based on the sitting pattern seen so far in this term, the provincial parliament’s next regular session is expected in the fall, by which point it should also be clear whether the revenue-to-spending ratio from the first half of the year held through the end of the third quarter.