2 minutes agoGovernment spent over 8m euros in fuel for only one year
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)According to the Ministry of Finance's annual financial report 2017, 8.7m euros for car fuel were spent during 2017. Compared to 2016, fuel expenditures have increased for (21%) or 1.8m euros. This subcategor included 4% of expenditures made by the category of goods and services. From [...]
From the collected data, it turns out that within 2017 the Office of the Prime Minister and the cabinets of 12 ministries have spent 261,736 euros per car fuel. Rather, it has spent the Ministry of Youth and Sports' Cabinet of Culture for about 60 thousand euros. The ZKM ranks behind it with 14,000 euros less.
In January 2008, Administrative Guide No. 032008 was drafted, which defines rules and procedures for the economic and efficient use of official Kosovo government vehicles by public institutions employees. It also reveals categories of officials who have the right to use official vehicles.
Based on Article 3 of this instruction, the prime minister, deputy prime minister, ministers, deputy ministers, KPC's permanent secretary and prime minister's cabinet chief are allowed to use state vehicles for official purposes for 24 hours.
While certain officials may be allowed to use official vehicles even overtime on the minister's terms, with a proposal of permanent secretary, executive chief or the highest leader of the relevant institution's budgetary organisations.
To oversee the implementation of this instruction, the Auto - Use Monitoring Unit was created under the Ministry of Public Administration. This facility aims to hold a registry on the use of official cars from all public institutions, to take notes on the expenses of derivatives, repairs and miles past each vehicle.
Based on the Law on Access to Public Documents, the GAP Institute has requested detailed data of the car's derivative spending for 2017 by the Prime Minister's Office (ZKM) and ministries.
Although such records should be legally published on the website of the ministries, our application again refused to respond to six ministries: The Ministry of the Kosovo Security Force, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development, the Ministry of Public Administration and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. The Ministry of Justice is the only minister to publish expenses on a weekly basis on the official website, including those for fuel, but that were not easily accessible and readable for the purpose of our research. So the Law on Access to Public Documents continues to be ignored.
The same number of answers we received this year compared to last year, with a total of 12 ministries and the prime minister's office responding. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has offered some of the expenses to some of them as personals, and some as positions. The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports has offered a portion of the expenses to personalisation, while the rest with car license plates. The Ministry of Communities and Return all expenses have been offered with car license plates. While, the Office of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of European Integration, the Ministry of Labour and Social Management, the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Ministry of Diaspore and Strategic Investment have provided general data.
For 2017, fuel spending has mostly been spent by Minister of Economic Development Blerand Stavileci. Following him are Minister of Internal Affairs Skender Hyseni, Environment and Spatial Planning Minister Ferat Shala and Health Minister Imet Unmundmann.
