In line with resolution No1444 of the Council of Ministers of Belarus of November 2, 2007, the first-category tariff rate for the budget-funded sectors of the economy has been increased up to Br70 thousand. The document entered into force on November 1, 2007, BelTA was told in the Council of Ministers Office. The state government bodies, local authorities, the organisations funded from the budget and enjoying state subsidies need to index wages and salaries in line with the first-category tariff rate and coefficients of the single wages scale of the Republic of Belarus.