Trepca in severe condition, workers may be left without pay this month

This company, which once was huge, is currently failing to secure even wages for 1,000 and 300 workers.

Former director-general in Trepca, Halil Qela, who is currently director of the flotilla in the company, has said in an interview for Kosova Preis that the current situation is unfortunately not good and, according to him, unless a quick and fair solution is made by the Ministry of Economic Development, respectively, the Government, will be in danger this month of securing wages for workers, and not to talk as he said about Trepca's existence.

And we didn't even get the wages for the workers to make sure from this last one. Which we've done, which means it shows enough. We have about 1,300 employees. We haven't achieved wages for workers made from the sale of concentrations produced in the last month. This is a disaster. They've taken our wages because we're going to sell, we're going to industrial waste, luckily, and the money's been taken from that waste, or else we'd have had a problem with taking wages and it might be pretty quickly a problem if within a month or two, there's no right choice, good solution, sustainable solution. I'm telling you, we've got a problem with all these workers' wages and not talking about Trepca's existence all over the place. Now it's an additional disaster. I would be told in independent Kosovo, in the coming freedom that Trepca questioned the workers' salaries were given, that is more than worse”, Qela has said.

He says that since the Government had announced as Trepca this year, it had to be reasoned.

The key added that Trepca needs to be registered because, as he said, production fall trains started years ago.

The government is now a formal shareholder under the law, 80 per cent shareholder of Trepca. It takes 80 percent to be more interested than the rest, but there are a few more problems, because it's late becoming the board's formation and it's not complete yet. Even that board is not reaching even a written statute, it has been several months since it arrived, perhaps even these obstacles. Trepca needs to be recorded and there's now a vacuum that only has to do this last year, but the fall of production, the lack of organization has its source in a few years ago, from 2014 onward we've taken down”, Qela said.

He has also spoken of mines in the north, which according to the key are separate and not managed by the management section in the south.

We've had about 5 grand and 300 tons of production here in the last month, which is an extremely small amount, it doesn't take away. We've dropped to the start level of the 2006-2007 job, so we're bad, very small production. And for the northern part, I don't have accurate information, I don't want to speculate, but based on what that part brings the amount of concentrations to the southern part, it's probably better than us. No, (not managed by us the part of the mines in the north), formally both the northern and southern parts as well as the one that was under the AKP, were under AKP management, but they are very separate from us, there has been a period that we have had a small co-operation, but now probably by the founding of the US Trepca. A, co-operation is minimum. They also failed to submit proposals for members of the Board, which had to be three people and to complete the” board, Qela said.

Production has been smaller in the northern mines of about 400,000 tons, while the average salary in that section is over 700 euros, which is over 1,200 workers in the northern part.

<x0). The northern division has been (produced) less than we are, of course, for nearly 400,000 tons less than we have produced and the mines in the north are much smaller and there is no theoretical possibility that their production is compared to the produce of Stanton... However, they (northern parts) are engaged in private stock - extracting companies and are concerned only with treatment while selling themselves. While, the quantity of extraction is contracted to various companies from Bulgaria, Macedonia, Bosnia and perhaps even Serbia. They even sold it out, didn't go selling through a joint tender, neither did we at the time have any data, because it wasn't in our power... It's probably a bigger crop than us right now, based on the amount of concentrations seen coming here south for progress, but exactly by figures I can't say, but it's a bad thing and it's a really bad thing for us how the mining in the north is possible in those conditions and in those very small mines, even 50 percent less than we do. We were supposed to be leaders for production, but these are the circumstances, this is the truth”, he said.

The former director of Trepca has shown that in the early war, production in this nation has been over 700 thousand tonnes. By the time Cella led the nation in 2012-2014, production says it was 240 thousand tonnes in the Stanterg and Kishnica mine, while today it is much less, about 40 per cent.

This is Trepca's year. Yes, of course there are many. The mine in Stanton, for example, produced 700 thousand tons, that is, 704 thousand tons was produced before the war. Now actually, I told you... We've arrived on the record, 240 thousand tons, which was 30%, and it was a record year, in 2012-2013. Today is much less. Much less, like 30-40, % less. Maybe 120-130 tons here and plus about 40-50 grand in the Artana mine, and together it's a little bit, unfortunately, it's a little”, he said.

Former director Qela has confessed to pre-war pre-competitive sales, which claims not only concentrations have been sold, had ready metals and had final products.

This post-war company had only paid taxes on state profit at 400 thousand euros.

Finally, Cella has said that from the start of work or the delivery of a license for production sometime in 2005-2006, in Trepca has been a steady increase in production 2024 per cent and starting from 2005 to 2012, while in 2012 there has been a 37 per cent increase in production, which, according to her, has been the largest increase since the war.