Serbs keep Kosovo's most valuable asset blocked

The community, which has since rejected the change in the status of this company, is refusing to submit names to members of its board, KTV reports.

In the open competition in December last year, three people from this community must go, but none had competed.

To solve this stalemate, the government is trying to fill the board with unionists from the same community.

With the new Law, metallural combinations have become acting societies owned by 80 percent of the government and 20 percent of the workers.

In the absence of the board, Trepca does not even have directors and has not yet been registered as public companies with special status, as the law predicts.

This is just one of many boards that still isn't complete.

Their number is 18.

But the government members' proposal, according to the Institute for Development Policy, does not make them independent.

Berat Rukiqi from the Kosovo Economic Oda says this blockade will have consequences both in the state of companies and agencies and in the economy.

In the absence of the board, the Energy Regulatory Office will not be able to do the tax review that, under the law, should be completed by the end of this month -- possibly not even finding a solution to the payment of energy spent in the north.

The ZERE has warned that non-visiting tariffs will directly affect the financial stability of operators and electricity supplies in the country.