According to Mehr’s reporter, the President presented the 1404 budget bill to the Speaker of the Islamic Council yesterday.
Bill 1404 contains 17 notes, some of which are related to the Supreme Council of Science, Research and Technology, as well as Science and Technology Parks.
In a part of note 4 of the Budget Bill 1404, it is stated: State companies, banks and for-profit institutions affiliated to the government listed in Appendix No. (3) of the Budget Law, are obliged to pay at least sixty percent (60%) of the cost of their research activities in the implementation of the related legal duties. The amount of twenty-five percent (25%) included in that appendix should be deposited quarterly to the fund account of the Supreme Council of Science, Research and Technology or the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education at the Treasury of the whole country, just in order to respond to technological needs and solving the problems and problems of the same government companies and government-affiliated for-profit institutions through agreements with universities/faculties and higher education and research institutions, both governmental and non-governmental, academic jihad, science and technology parks, seminaries and knowledge-based companies and In the form of research and development projects, plans (projects), applied titles of postgraduate theses, postdoctoral projects and research plans (projects) of non-employed graduate students.
If any of the companies, banks and for-profit institutions affiliated to the government do not deposit the relevant funds within the stipulated time, the treasury of the whole country is allowed to directly withdraw the relevant amount from their account with the treasury and deposit it into the account of the mentioned fund that is the subject of this paragraph. slow These amounts for universities and institutions of higher education and research and academic jihad are considered to be in excess of their specific income predicted in this law. The executive regulations of this section will be approved by the Board of Ministers at the suggestion of the Program and Budget Organization in cooperation with the Ministries of Science, Research and Technology, Oil, Energy and Industry, Mining and Trade.
In paragraph C, Note 5, it is also stated as follows: In line with the implementation of Article (56) of the Law on the Addition of Certain Articles to the Law on the Regulation of Part of the Financial Regulations of the Government (2) regarding the allocation of one percent (1%) of the expenditure credits allocated to executive bodies (to With the exception of Chapters 1, 5 and 7) for research and technology development affairs, the provincial planning and development council is allowed to deduct the appropriations of this article from the total of the province’s expenditure appropriations listed in table number (10) of this law and with the coordination of the provincial executive bodies and Based on the approved research priorities and policies and the needs of the province and within the framework of the instructions issued by the country’s program and budget organization, which is compiled in coordination with the ministries of science, research and technology, and health, treatment and medical education, for research and technology development, the provincial executive bodies are assigned. assigned by that council.
The aforementioned institutions are required to report the spending of this clause to the Supreme Council of Science, Research and Technology, the Iranian Statistics Center, the Education, Research and Technology Commission of the Islamic Council, the State Accounts Court, and the country’s program and budget organization, every six months, and the Supreme Science Council, Research and Technology is obliged to submit the annual report of this section to the Islamic Council and the country’s program and budget organization no later than the end of August 1405.
Iran’s Statistics Center is obliged to annually publish information on research and development spending. The condition of using the credits of this paragraph is the inclusion of priorities, needs and research issues by executive bodies in the system of ideas and needs (BREAD) in the citation database of Islamic world sciences (ISC).
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