Ministry of Finance (Ministério das Finanças) Portugal

The Ministry of Finance defines and conducts the State's budgetary, financial and fiscal policy and policies for the Public Administration.

The Ministry of Finance has the following functions:

Define and control the execution of the State's financial policy;
Design and implement fiscal policy;
Manage the State's financial instruments, namely the State Budget, the Treasury and Heritage;
Protect public companies, alone or together with the members of the Government responsible for the respective sector;
Exercise the role of State shareholder;
Coordinate and control the financial activity of the administrative public sector, exercise financial supervision over local authorities and coordinate financial relations with the Autonomous Regions;
Control the European Union's external border for fiscal and economic purposes;
Ensuring the Government's relations with the Bank of Portugal with regard to the implementation of monetary policy;
Define, coordinate and evaluate human resources policies in Public Administration;
Define, coordinate and apply policies relating to Public Administration, namely the organization and management of public services, with a view to increasing efficiency, rationalization and promoting quality;
Manage the Public Administration's health subsystem and the complementary social action of Public Administration workers.