Dedication, the Only Form to Pay Debt to State

There are millions of euros in debt and thousands of fines for countering traffic that citizens have unpaid.

Recently, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has announced to citizens that starting on June 1, 2018, they cannot register their vehicles without paying the fines they might have for the perpetrators committed in road traffic.

In a response to Radio Free Europe, the Ministry of Internal Affairs says this form of paying fines is in line with the Law on Automobiles.

“Article 43, paragraph 2 of the Automotive Law says that the owner of the vehicle cannot register or continue registration the motor vehicle by motor action, nor change the owner's shift, without making fines for counterpointing on road traffic”, the ministry says in response.

This approach, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, will serve to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of paying fines for anti-travenous acts in traffic as impacting the prevention and reduction of traffic accidents.

Meanwhile, in just the first five months of this year, Kosovo Police have imposed close to 37 thousand fines for countering traffic.

Kosovo's “Police during this period meant for the first five months of this year, on the entire territory of Kosovo has pronounced 36,617 ticketing for counter-inference in traffic, until for the same period of last year it has pronounced 33,556 tickets or this year's percentage of expression, we have a 9.12 per cent” increase, Kosovo Police spokesman Bajram Krasniqi tells Radio Free Europe.

Meanwhile, Kosovo citizens are deeply indebted to two public companies offering services to consumers.

The consumer's overall debt in the Regional Waters only “Pristina”, from post-war to now, is about 50m euros.

Regional Aqua's spokeswoman “Pristina”, Arjeta Doctor says of Radio Free Europe that consumers who don't pay their bills are making cuts from water supply services.

The disable is facing each consumer with two or more unpaid bills on water supply and sewer services. Within four months 700 individual cracks have been realised, over 3,500 indebted consumers have been visited and sent to the private owner about 1,200 consumer substances that are not regular to water services”, the doctor says.

The doctor also announced that all consumers who have benefited from the Law for Forgiveness of Public Debt and have not kept the contract for payment of reprogrammed debt debt will be returned to an forgiven debt.

While in the company “the clean-up” the Arbor Ademi spokeswoman says of Radio Free Europe is about 20m euros in citizen debt.

Monthly bills, of close to 5 euros for services made by the company “Cleaning”, according to Ademi, are low and that citizens will have to be more accountable to the obligations they have for the services they receive.

The only form this company uses to avoid consumer debts is to send the subject to the private owner.

We're constantly sending materials to the private host. We've started with citizens with huge debts and then continuing on track. We have citizens who have never paid bills since the postwar period so far. The company ) Cleanery, not like public companies, does not have the form of conditioning for citizens, but the delivery of consumer matter to the private owner”, Ademi says.

Representatives of human rights organisations in Kosovo say citizens, if they want a legal state, should also be an example of respect for laws or decisions and payments for the services received.

Behxhet Shala, executive director of the Council for Protection of Freedoms and Human Rights in Kosovo, tells Radio Free Europe that the most efficient way of running or paying fines would be to establish a special department that would make accelerated execution of these decisions.

The most effective approach is to create a special department under the Constitutional Court that would make accelerated executions of decisions, whether of the Police or of the courts, so that the case of the private owner does not go through, as the owner of their actions very often endangers the existence of citizen<1>, says Shala. / REL