The Bulgarian Parliament has given the green light to a package of bills setting next year's state budget and overhauling expenditure for 2015.
Revenues for 2016 are estimated at BGN 20.6 B, and expenditure will be BGN 10.97 B.
Of transfers included in the budget, worth BGB 10.52 B, some BGN 2.66 B are earmarked for municipalities.
This year's budget has also been updated, with deficit growing from BGN 2.2 B to BGN 2.7 B, after additional allocations to some EU-funded projects and extra expenses for some ministries (including Ministries of Interior, Justice, and Defense).
It took lawmakers 13 hours of debates to hold a final vote, after having approved the framework on 2 December.
Earlier, they also set the deficit and the cap for new debt Bulgaria could take on next year.