Kosovo customs lacks oil control equipment

As a result of poor oil, vehicles in Kosovo are breaking down more rapidly than in other countries. The quality of oil derivatives is uncertain as a result of numerous shortcomings in the control and monitoring system. Concern is the fact that in import and in the domestic market actually a very small number of quality parameters are tested, as well as the lack of domestic market measures to derivatives resulting in non-conform to remove them from retail stations. So has the National Audition Office revealed in the newest report on oil quality.

Kosovo customs is facing a lack of natural equipment to measure the quality of derivatives. Shortly before the report was released, customs procurement had opened a tender for measuring the quality of derivatives, which it carried out a few days ago, writes news.

The tender is called “Fournisation of the laboratory with analysis equipment”, with the aim of responding to demands relating to the tariff classification of the”. This tender is divided into two parts. The first piece “Analyzing production equipment for oil derivatives” has won N.T. devices. S. BIZUN & McLabor doo, worth 114,377,40 euros. Part two “Analyzing equipment for definition of the amidion and for general laboratory use”. Even that part was won by N.T. S. BIZUN & McLabor doo worth 83.544.00 euros.

Customs tested 5.86% of oil, hopes new equipment will increase the figure 

Adriatic Stavileci, spokesman in Kosovo Customs, has said the equipment Dogan has been bought for the purposes of the tarife classification, but the same in the case of obtaining competence for implementation of the UA 012017 have been used for quality of oil derivatives, as working with standard methods for controlling even quality and money, according to the UA 012017 of MTI for quality of liquid oil derivatives and with international standards ISO and ASTM.

“Dogana has had a lack of equipment and still lacks equipment, but their number is constantly growing. With the purchase of new equipment, no. of the parameters to be tested, both in terms of quality and in terms of the tarifer”, Stavileci told news.net.

Bad quality, 19 Autobots with oil derivatives returned

The oil derivative sector, known and as Kosovo's most profitable market, is characterised by numerous irregularities, from import to the least sale of this product.

This year's “have been back 19 Autobots with oil derivatives since their quality was not in line with the US 01/2017”, the customs spokesman said further.

According to him, from the beginning of this year until today, about 19876 charges have been introduced in Kosovo.

He said that for 2019, up to today, about 1166 tests were conducted and that is about 5.86%. This figure is above European practices that are 3-5%”, he said further.

The audience doubts oil quality

National Audition Office has published the performance report, titled "Control and Monitoring the quality of oil derivatives." The audience has raised doubts about the quality of oil derivatives in Kosovo. The audience has said there are shortcomings in the system, where the competencies and credibility of taking samples and testing them are questioned. Import oil derivatives are managed by Kosovo Customs, and in the domestic market by the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

The existing “system of control and monitoring of the quality of oil derivatives is unable to ensure the quality of oil derivatives in imports and in the domestic market. Despite efforts to ensure the quality of oil derivatives, control and monitoring of these products has been conveyed with numerous shortcomings, and this has contributed to the failure to ensure the quality of oil derivatives in import and the domestic market”, the audit report says. According to this report, in 2018, 19% of the sighted samples were presented in the report of other tested derivatives, while they themselves had not been tested, whereas 5% of samples lacked the test report on the system as related documents.

“Import managements include the lack of lab testing reports and full information for the system inspection troops, the inability to identify the Inspective Corps in certain cases, the lack of accreditment of the Customs Laboratory, and the low number of parameters tested”, the audit report said.

And the audience in this process has noted that in the Customs Laboratory, there is no complete database in which all inspection troops engaged in taking samples are identified. According to the audience, the result has been the lack of reports in the Customs system, where all oil imports and their monitoring documents are identified.

The Auditor's office in this report has found Customs Laboratory tested parameters for which it has not been accredited and since April 2019 conducted tests without accreditation. “Controls that become selected samples of oil derivatives must be reliable. This means that oil derivative controls must be realised by accredited troops. Standard I SO/ IEC 17025 specifys general requirements for competence, impartiality and sustainability of laboratory operations. The laboratory tested parameters such as the density in 15oC and since the end of 2018, the content of the methical acid ester (EMAY) for which it has not been accredited to verify the quality of imported derivatives. However, in the lab report it presented the fact that these parameters were not accredited”, the report says.

The National Audition Office has provided its recommendations, aimed at providing responsible authorities -- Kosovo Customs and the Ministry of Commerce -- to step up their efforts to take action, to ensure the quality of oil in import and domestic markets.

The general audience during Tuesday (day) will present the report with its findings.

The Society has requested more frequent measurements

The chairman of the Association of Oilmen, Fadil Behrani, has spoken about this report, acknowledging that even those as an association are not satisfied with controlling the quality of the derivatives, since, according to him, no 5 %s has been managed to control.

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According to Berjan, it is a tendency for the Intensive Corps to return from the Ministry of Trade and Industry, and this is strongly opposed by the Oil Association. This is because they attribute quality to and do not do the work properly.

“As far as quality control is concerned, the Oil Association has been and remains for quality control to be done during import. As for failing to control the quality control of the Inspector Corps, we've always opposed and opposed them because the Inspector Corps only has quality manipulum and they've never checked it, they haven't done it. They just filled out the papers. Our position is that the Inspector Corps must leave as soon as possible. It is a tendency of the Ministry of Trade and Industry to return them and manipulate by quality”, Behrani said.