Official Gazette of the Syrian Arab Republic (الجريدة الرسمية), part one, the repeat of issue 1 of 2010, dated 6 January 2010, carrying Law No. 37 of 2009 on the appropriations of the general budget of the state for the financial year 2010
Source ID
SRC-262
Citation
Official Gazette of the Syrian Arab Republic (الجريدة الرسمية), part one, the repeat of issue 1 of 2010, dated 6 January 2010, carrying Law No. 37 of 2009 on the appropriations of the general budget of the state for the financial year 2010
URL or path
research/SRC-262_gazette_2010_issue01_mukarrar_part1.pdf; page images at research/SRC-262_gazette_2010_issue01_mukarrar_part1_pages/; issue page at odd.syria-report.com/official_gazette/العدد-01،-مكرر-الجزء-1،-2010/
Type
Primary instrument, official gazette, Arabic
Hierarchy tier
1
Published
2010-01-06
Accessed
2026-08-18
Snapshot
Obtained 18 August 2026, HTTP 200, 53,169,988 bytes, 57 pages. Pages 2 to 4 rendered at 200 dpi and read on obtaining; pages 7 to 57 rendered at 200 dpi on 18 August 2026 and the expenditure schedule read in full, with the figures used re-rendered at 650 to 700 dpi and read again at the cell. Not committed
Claims
BUDGET-001; CH2 the 2010 budget denominator; CH7 public payroll composition
Status
READ
Version history
The register keeps changing after the book is fixed in print. Each entry below was added to this row in the order shown.
OBTAINED AND READ ON 18 AUGUST 2026, AND IT CLOSES THE SINGLE EXCEPTION THIS BOOK ALLOWED ITSELF. PAGE 3 READ AS A RENDERED IMAGE, not from the text layer, because the layer garbles Arabic numerals and this project has printed a wrong date from a reversed one. UNDER THE HEADINGS 'رئاسة الجمهورية' AND 'القوانين': 'القانون رقم /37/'. PREAMBLE, VERBATIM: 'رئيس الجمهورية، بناءً على أحكام الدستور. وعلى ما أقره مجلس الشعب في جلسته المنعقدة بتاريخ ١٤٣١/١/٤هـ الموافق ٢٠٠٩/١٢/٢٠م. يصدر ما يلي'. ARTICLE 1, VERBATIM: 'تحدد اعتمادات الموازنة العامة للدولة للسنة المالية ٢٠١٠ بمبلغ إجمالي قدره (٧٥٤) مليار ل.س فقط سبعمائة وأربعة وخمسون مليار ليرة سورية لا غير موزعة على الأقسام والفروع والأبواب وفق ما هو وارد في جدول بيان النفقات المرافق لهذا القانون'. ARTICLE 2, VERBATIM: 'تقدر إيرادات الموازنة العامة للدولة للسنة المالية ٢٠١٠ بمبلغ إجمالي قدره (٧٥٤) مليار ل.س فقط سبعمائة وأربعة وخمسون مليار ليرة سورية لا غير وفق جدول الإيرادات المرافق لهذا القانون'. SO 754 BILLION APPEARS TWICE, IN NUMERALS AND IN WORDS, ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BUDGET, AND THE BUDGET IS BALANCED TO THE POUND ON ITS OWN FACE. Articles 3 to 5 read on the same page and Articles 6 to 11 on pages 4 to 6: budgets of public bodies of an economic and construction character issued by decision of the Minister of Finance; appropriations for price stabilisation and for the capital of those bodies; postal, telegraph, telephone, electricity and water costs treated as obligatory expenditure. TYPE, AND THE TWO RECORDS DISAGREE: the gazette's own index on page 2 and the instrument's own heading say القوانين, a law, while the archive's online contents row types it القرارات. THE INSTRUMENT GOVERNS AND PROSE FOLLOWS IT. [STRUCK 18 AUGUST 2026 WHEN THE SCHEDULE WAS READ, AND QUOTED WHERE IT STOOD SO A PARTIAL READING CANNOT REINTRODUCE IT: 'READING STILL OWED: the schedules of expenditure and revenue annexed to the law, which are the remaining 51 pages, and nothing may rest on them.' THE EXPENDITURE SCHEDULE IS NOW READ IN FULL AND THINGS MAY REST ON IT; the revenue schedule is not, and nothing may rest on that. The count of 51 was also wrong in a way worth recording: the remaining pages are 51 but they are not 51 sheets, because most sheets appear twice and one appears four times.] THE PAGE NUMBER IS NOT RECORDED HERE AS A SINGLE FIGURE: the archive's contents row says page 3, the rendered page carries ٢٥ beside the gazette's title line, and the two are not reconciled. Cite the issue, the part and the date.
THE EXPENDITURE SCHEDULE IS READ IN FULL, 18 AUGUST 2026, AND THE READING IS AT audits/reports/SRC-262_expenditure_schedule_reading.md. ALL FIFTEEN FOLIOS OPENED: 1/15 at file page 13, 2/15 at 15, 3/15 at 17, 4/15 at 19, 5/15 at 20, 6/15 at 21, 7/15 at 22, 8/15 at 24, 9/15 at 28, 10/15 at 30, 11/15 at 32, 12/15 at 34, 13/15 at 36, 14/15 at 38, 15/15 at 40. Rendered at 200 dpi and read as images; every figure below re-rendered at 650 to 700 dpi and read again at the cell. THE TEXT LAYER MAY NOT BE USED FOR ANY VALUE: it reverses Arabic-Indic numerals, returning one figure correctly and the next as its mirror, which cannot be told apart from correctness without opening the page. THE GRAND TOTAL, folio 15/15, IN THOUSANDS OF SYRIAN POUNDS, the unit printed in the header as بآلاف الليرات السورية: Chapter One salaries, wages and compensations 154,465,470; Chapter Two administrative expenditures 33,236,295; Chapter Three investment projects 327,000,000, being 315,065,390 local resources and 11,934,610 external; Chapter Four transfer expenditures 36,947,490; Chapter Five debts and obligations due 85,227,745; AGGREGATE APPROPRIATIONS (اعتمادات اجمالية) 117,123,000; total current operations 427,000,000; TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS 754,000,000. It foots exactly: 154,465,470 + 33,236,295 + 36,947,490 + 85,227,745 + 117,123,000 = 427,000,000, and 427,000,000 + 327,000,000 = 754,000,000, which is Article 1's figure to the pound. SO THE 754 BILLION IS CONFIRMED A SECOND TIME AND FROM THE SCHEDULE RATHER THAN THE ARTICLE. 2009 comparatives on the same row: current operations 410,000,000, investment 275,000,000, total 685,000,000. THE FINDING, AND IT IS WHY CHAPTER 7 NEEDED THIS DOCUMENT: THE PUBLISHED WAGE BILL EXCLUDES THE STATE'S LARGEST EMPLOYER BECAUSE THAT EMPLOYER IS VOTED AS ONE UNDIVIDED NUMBER. The aggregate appropriations column, 117,123,000 thousand pounds or 15.5 per cent of the budget, is not divided into chapters at all. The summary page names what is in it: Presidency of the Republic 2,038,000; People's Assembly 601,000; MINISTRY OF DEFENCE 89,484,000, which is 11.9 per cent of the whole budget; and unallocated appropriations 25,000,000. ESTABLISHED THREE INDEPENDENT WAYS, EACH CHECKED AT THE CELL. (1) The note on folio 15/15, read at 650 dpi, whose three bodies sum to 92,123,000 and with the 25,000,000 make the 117,123,000 in the column. (2) The arithmetic of sector 1 on folio 1/15, where Chapters One, Two, Four and Five sum to 299,714,345 against a printed current-operations total of 391,837,345, a difference of 92,123,000 EXACTLY. (3) The rows themselves: branch 11101 the Presidency carries 2,038,000 in the current-operations and total columns AND NOTHING IN ANY CHAPTER COLUMN; section 112 the People's Assembly carries 601,000 the same way; BRANCH 13101 THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE CARRIES 89,484,000 THAT WAY, against 84,000,000 for 2009. Section 13, national security, prints a Chapter One of 9,722,020 which is the Interior Ministry's 311,220 plus the Internal Security Forces Command's 9,410,800 and foots exactly, SO DEFENCE CONTRIBUTES NOTHING TO THE SALARY LINE WHILE ACCOUNTING FOR 89,484,000 OF THE SECTION'S 108,907,230 TOTAL. TWO FURTHER POPULATIONS ARE OUTSIDE THE SALARY LINE AND THE SCHEDULE SHOWS BOTH. Bodies marked تمويل ذاتي, self-financed, carry investment allocations and no Chapter One: the oil and gas companies, electricity generation and water corporations, railways, ports, banks and the insurance corporation. And the public hospitals at branches 18208 to 18219 likewise carry investment and no salary line. WHAT PROSE MAY SAY: that the 2010 budget's salaries, wages and compensations line is 154,465,470 thousand Syrian pounds; that a further 117,123,000 thousand, 15.5 per cent of the budget, is appropriated without any division into chapters; that the Ministry of Defence's entire appropriation of 89,484,000 thousand is one of those undivided numbers and carries no salary line; that self-financed corporations and the public hospitals appear with investment allocations and no salary line; and that the published wage bill is therefore the wage bill of the budget-financed administration rather than of the state. WHAT PROSE MAY NOT SAY: that defence pay is any figure or any share of the 89,484,000, because the schedule does not divide it and nothing here does; that the practice was novel or that it continues, this being one budget year whose 2009 comparatives are totals and not a chapter split; that the central health Chapter One of 788,290 is what health staff are paid, because the hospitals are separate bodies in this schedule and where service staff are paid from is not in it; and that any sector-level Chapter One figure other than sector 1's 149,304,105 is exact, because those were read at 200 dpi only and the nine of them sum to 578,025 more than the printed total, a 0.37 per cent discrepancy that is unresolved and is probably mine. [STRUCK 19 AUGUST 2026 WHEN THE REVENUE SCHEDULE WAS READ, AND QUOTED WHERE IT STOOD: 'STILL UNREAD AND THE STATUS STAYS READ_IN_PART FOR IT: pages 42 to 45, and the revenue schedule at pages 46 to 57 which is paginated 1/4 to 4/4 with a further sheet at 1/1.' The revenue summary and folios 1/4 and 4/4 are now read, and page 42 turned out to be folio 15/15 of the expenditure schedule rather than filler.] ON THE COUNT OF PAGES, because this repository has miscounted retrieved documents before: all 57 pages carry a distinct embedded scan, tested by hashing every extracted image, so no page is a byte-identical re-use; the repeats are separate impressions of one sheet. THE FOLIO NUMBERS DO NOT INDEX THE FILE: four pages carry الصفحة ٨ / ١٥ and pages 24 and 26 were opened to test whether they were different sheets, which they are not. Cite a page of this PDF by its file page AND its folio.
THE REVENUE SCHEDULE IS READ AND THE BUDGET BALANCES ON ITS OWN FACE, 19 AUGUST 2026. Reading at audits/reports/SRC-262_expenditure_schedule_reading.md. THE REVENUE SUMMARY, folio 1/1 at file pages 56 and 57, READ AT 600 DPI, in thousands of Syrian pounds, 2010 then 2009: chapter 6 taxes and fees 278,428,000 and 240,640,000; chapter 7 service charges and revenues of state property and its public investments 42,816,000 and 47,484,000; chapter 8 miscellaneous revenues 79,250,000 and 43,200,000; chapter 9 available surplus 177,092,172 and 127,617,660; chapter 0 exceptional revenues 176,413,828 and 226,058,340; TOTAL 754,000,000 AND 685,000,000. IT FOOTS THREE WAYS AND ALL THREE ARE EXACT: the 2010 column sums to 754,000,000, the 2009 column to 685,000,000, and the schedule's own increase-and-decrease column to 69,000,000, which is the difference between the two totals. SO EXPENDITURE OF 754,000,000 MEETS REVENUE OF 754,000,000 AND THE BUDGET BALANCES TO THE POUND ON THE FACE OF THE TWO SCHEDULES, not merely in Article 1 and Article 2. AND ONE LINE TIES THE TWO SCHEDULES TOGETHER. Folio 4/4 divides exceptional revenues into external loans and resources of 11,934,610 and a draw from reserve of 164,479,218, which sum to 176,413,828. THAT 11,934,610 IS THE SAME FIGURE TO THE POUND AS CHAPTER THREE'S EXTERNAL RESOURCES ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE. THE COMPOSITION, AND IT BEARS ON HOW 754 BILLION MAY BE USED AS A DENOMINATOR. Current revenues, chapters 6, 7 and 8, are 400,494,000, 53.1 per cent of the budget. The rest is investment revenues: an available surplus of 177,092,172 and exceptional revenues of 176,413,828. THE DRAW FROM RESERVE ALONE IS 164,479,218, 21.8 PER CENT OF THE WHOLE BUDGET. WHAT PROSE MAY SAY: that the 2010 budget balances at 754 billion on both schedules; that a little over half of it was financed from taxes, charges and miscellaneous revenue; and that the draw from reserve was about a fifth of the whole. WHAT PROSE MAY NOT SAY: that 754 billion is the year's revenue in the ordinary sense, because nearly half of the revenue side is surplus and exceptional items; or anything about outturn, since both schedules are estimates voted in advance. PAGE 42 IS FOLIO 15/15 AND ITEMISES THE UNALLOCATED LINE: reserve appropriations for investment projects 86,445,475; THE STATE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PRICE STABILISATION 25,000,000; working capital for public economic sector entities 1,000,000. The two investment lines sum to the 87,445,475 folio 14/15 prints for sector zero. SO THE AGGREGATE-APPROPRIATIONS COLUMN IS NOW FULLY NAMED AND FOOTS EXACTLY: 2,038,000 plus 601,000 plus 89,484,000 plus 25,000,000 is 117,123,000, and its fourth component is subsidy support rather than a nameless reserve. TWO OF MY OWN MISREADINGS, RECORDED BECAUSE THEY ARE THE CLASS THIS ROW KEEPS MEETING: at 200 dpi miscellaneous revenues read as 7,925,000 and its 2009 figure as 4,320,000; both are eight digits, 79,250,000 and 43,200,000, and the column did not foot until they were read at the cell. A 200 dpi read of this scan finds a row and may not print a figure. STATUS MOVES TO READ. What is still not opened is pages 43 to 45 and folios 2/4 and 3/4 of the revenue schedule at file pages 48 to 53; the chapter totals above come from the summary sheet and from folios 1/4 and 4/4, not built up from every line.