What are the penalties for not including proposals in the MYS?
ERC expects all proposals put forward by a Department’s coordinating Minister will be identified in the MYS prior to any ERC consideration. If a proposal is submitted to ERC as part of the Budget process and has not been identified in your Department’s MYS, that proposal will not be considered by ERC until the next Budget round (i.e. deferred for 12 months). The only exception is when a proposal is submitted to address exceptional circumstances requiring urgent consideration such as a government’s response to a force majeure (e.g. a critical response to a natural disaster), or responding to a direct, explicit instruction that carries the full and unequivocal support of ERC.
