State budget is one of the most important areas of all the functional areas of state ϔinances. Besides that budget has been and always is a very interesting topic of public interest.
The general part of budgetary law includes the issue of budgetary principles or also principles of budgetary management, which are contained directly in legislation or are referred to as normative rules common to public budgets. The aim of the paper is to discuss the budgetary principles of the Slovak Republic.