Organization and Responsibilities of the DGPP
The organizational structure, functions, and responsibilities of the DGPP are defined in Article 2 of Executive Decree No. 21-252 dated 25 Chaoual 1442 (corresponding to June 6, 2021), concerning the organization of the central administration of the Ministry of Finance, as follows:
The Directorate General for Forecasting and Policies (DGPP) is specifically charged with the following responsibilities:
- Prepare macroeconomic forecasts, the macroeconomic and financial framework of finance laws, and the presentation reports of finance laws;
- Monitor developments in the international economic environment and assess its impact on the national economy;
- Contribute to the development of public finance information systems;
- Prepare the necessary elements for drafting budgetary and fiscal policies and ensure their monitoring and evaluation;
- Monitor and evaluate the balance of social protection schemes;
- Simulate the impacts of economic and financial measures.
It is organized into four (4) directorates:
I - Directorate of Macroeconomic Forecasting, responsible for:
- Ensuring short- and medium-term macroeconomic forecasting based on monitoring and analysis of economic conjuncture.
- Providing the macroeconomic and budgetary framework for finance laws.
- Preparing presentation reports on finance laws.
It is composed of four (4) sub-directorates:
a) Sub-directorate of Forecasting, responsible for:
- Developing short- and medium-term forecasting methodologies for aggregates of real and financial sectors.
- Ensuring forecasts of the balance of resources and uses and employment balance for the nation, as well as budget balance forecasts, in coordination with relevant structures in the Ministry of Finance.
- Ensuring the macroeconomic framework and preparing presentation reports for finance laws.
b) Sub-directorate of Conjuncture Analysis, responsible for:
- Preparing quarterly reports analyzing the country’s economic and financial situation.
- Preparing an annual report on the economic and financial situation.
- Preparing special notes related to the development of indicators that impact the national economy.
c) Sub-directorate of Financial Operations Analysis, responsible for:
- Ensuring the preparation of the financial transactions matrix.
- Monitoring and analyzing financial flows.
- Contributing to studies of a financial nature.
d) Sub-directorate of Forecasting Models and Simulations, responsible for:
- Updating and adapting models.
- Simulating the impacts of measures of an economic and financial nature.
II - Directorate of Statistical Information, responsible for, in particular:
- Establishing the statistical information system and developing a database covering the financial sector, real sector, and social sectors.
- Organizing statistical information production in coordination with relevant structures.
- Disseminating statistical information to serve the national statistical information system.
It is composed of two (2) sub-directorates:
a) Sub-directorate of Financial Sector Statistics.
b) Sub-directorate of Real Sector Statistics.
Each is responsible, within its respective scope, for:
- Defining, in collaboration with data producers, dissemination platforms and channels.
- Building a sector-specific statistical database.
- Coordinating the dissemination of statistics with relevant structures.
III - Directorate of Budgetary Policies, responsible for:
- Proposing the elements necessary for defining budgetary policy.
- Ensuring control over the structure of budgetary expenditures and the coherence of their allocation.
- Assessing budgetary policy.
a) Sub-directorate of Budgetary Balance, responsible for:
- Participating in defining budgetary policies.
- Implementing the monitoring of budgetary policies and assessing their impact.
b) Sub-directorate of State Economic and Social Action, responsible for:
- Preparing the elements necessary for state economic and social actions.
- Ensuring monitoring and evaluation of the impacts of state economic and social action.
IV - Directorate of Tax Policies, responsible in particular for:
- Proposing a tax strategy that aims at modernizing and simplifying the tax system and improving its yield.
- Ensuring coherence of tax and para-tax instruments.
- Guiding the strategy in international tax relations.
- Defining taxation in income, consumption, and savings.
- Guiding the strategy in specific taxation.
- Guiding the strategy in ordinary taxation.
- Monitoring and evaluating tax policies and social system balances.
It is composed of three (3) sub-directorates:
a) Sub-directorate of Ordinary Taxation Policy, responsible for:
- Proposing tax measures related to ordinary taxation.
- Ensuring the study and rationalization of taxation techniques for ordinary taxation.
- Monitoring and assessing ordinary taxation.
b) Sub-directorate of Social Regimes, responsible for:
- Proposing tax exemption and reduction measures for social regimes.
- Proposing para-tax measures for social regimes.
Assessing taxation and para-taxation associated with social regimes.
c) Sub-directorate of Specific Taxation, responsible for:
- Proposing measures related to specific tax regimes.
- Monitoring and assessing the impacts resulting from specific tax regimes.
The Director General of Forecasting and Policies is assisted by two (2) directors of studies.
