According to government information, project committees and curators of national projects will limit the possibility of changing the budget list in the last month of 2020.

“For infrastructure projects and subsidies within the framework of the international cooperation and export national project, the deadline is December 15.

In all other cases, the restriction will take effect from December 1, ”the Cabinet of Ministers said.

They explained that the money that was reserved for specific articles of national projects and not spent on time will be prohibited from being transferred to other purposes.

Any unclaimed money will be transferred to the government reserve fund.

"The decree will allow to establish budgetary discipline, increase the efficiency of expenditures and concentrate resources on the timely solution of the tasks set," the government's press service said.

On November 26, the State Duma in the third reading adopted the law on the federal budget for 2021-2023.