According to the analysis of the parliamentary budget service in 2025, the expenditure of the presidential office increases by 0.5 million ꞓ (+ 4 %) compared to the provisional success in 2024 to 12.7 million ꞓ. This makes them around 0.01 % of total expenditure 2025. In 2026, the expenditure for the presidential office reduces again by 0.5 million ꞓ to 12.2 million ꞓ. The number of 93 positions remains at the same level by 2026 (67 d.B. and 68 d.B. ). Im Budget committee State Secretary Alexander Pröll, representing Federal President Alexander van der Bellen, commented on the National Council.
According to the analysis of the parliamentary budget service, the operational factual expenditure was 4.2 million ꞓ and is to be reduced by 0.3 million ꞓ to 3.9 million ꞓ in 2025, in particular due to the loss of remuneration to the Castle Cup (-0.9 million ꞓ). On the other hand, the representation expenses increase by 0.5 million ꞓ ꞓ, especially for trips that did not take place in 2024 and will be made up for in 2025. Furthermore, the maintenance for climate expectation and security systems increase slightly by 0.05 million ꞓ. Investments are planned in 2025 in the protection of the IT infrastructure.
New reserves of 0.8 million ꞓ were formed in 2024. These resulted from lower personnel costs due to delays in the event of delays and the lower representation effort. As of December 31, 2024, the reserve was 6.6 million ꞓ.
Savings: critical examination of planned projects
According to the budget report in 2025 and 2026, the presidential office in 2025 undertakes to contribute 0.5 million ꞓ ꞓ ꞓ and in 2026 with 0.1 million ꞓ to the budget consolidation. For this purpose, planned investments and projects are to be subjected to an internal critical examination in the area of discretion expenditure to what extent they can be carried out or postponed. This can affect, for example, the shift in the restoration of works of art, said State Secretary Alexander Pröll. In addition, the delegation size should be subjected to a “particularly critical test” when traveling.
Michael Gmeindl (FPÖ) asked about the costs for vaccination in the presidential office and about the expenditure in 2024 for trips abroad by Federal President Alexander van der Bellen and his wife Doris Schmidauer. Numbers regarding vaccinations are submitted, said State Secretary Pröll. In 2024, more than 722,000 ꞓ were spent on representations.
Wolfgang Gerstl (ÖVP) asked about cyber attacks on the presidential office. This is a particularly interesting goal for attacks, said Pröll. In particular at the time around the National Council election, the accessibility of the website of the presidential office was affected by mass server inquiries.
After the travel planning of the Federal President and his focus at events for young people, Selma Yildirim (SPÖ) asked. The travel planning has not yet been completed, Pröll replied. In the planning, the participation of Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen is at the UN General Assembly in New York and trips to Asian countries. With regard to the question of events for young people, Pröll said that it was very important to the Federal President to bring young people closer to the European thank you, democracy, equal treatment and the topic of environmental and climate protection. He rely on direct encounters but also on communications in the digital area such as social media platforms.
When asked by Agnes Sirkka Prammer (Greens) after the equality objectives of the presidential firm, Pröll replied that this was a cross -sectional matter matter of which is taken into account with measures at many different levels.
The Federal Finance Framework 2025 to 2028 and the Federal Finance Framework 2026 to 2029 were negotiated66 d.B.). (Continued budget committee) Bea
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