Car dealers complain: Homologist, government plunder

An extraordinary session was held last Friday, where MPs discussed a lot but failed to make a decision in the end.

The Economy Online team stayed this Sunday in the Fushë Kosovo auto market to get the position of car vendors, but also the buyers about the subject.

All respondents are told that the process of counterpart is unnecessary and that it should be removed immediately.

Fatbath Dajaj is one of many Kosovars who faced this process.

He says he was forced last week to undergo the counterpart of a car coming from Germany.

He says it's only about getting 125 euros.

A car that comes from the outside is a counterpart, when she comes here again she has to go to her counterpart just for the face of the page. I asked them in their counterparts what you check in the car they told me not only their appearance. The main one is not controlled in the counterparts, the car engine does not control where it can be the biggest defect of a” vehicle, he said.

And for another citizen, the counterpart is made just for one purpose.

Africa Salihu, says cars brought from the outside don't need a counterpart.

I think counterpart s'u've had to be removed, it's a spoils of people, of other things is one more, that we're doing technical control here. Sʹka's better to enable technical control than becoming a counterpart. 125 euros receive only one more robbery. We're bringing them in from Germany to pay enough there, we pay customs plus the rest of them, and we're getting a counterpart why. Even if it's your counterpart's three companies, not just one, we're done paying you other stuff”

Milazim Krasniqi is thinking that the counterpart has been set up as a consequence of failed politics.

He says the cost of cars is increasing because of his counterpart.

“Homologist to cars has had to be nothing, because it bastards Kosovo's economy and it's directly into the citizens' pocket, but homologism is the consequence of the failed policy that has formed miserable clans that are all at the expense of the citizen. Homolgim increases the cost of the price of cars and it goes directly to the pocket of citizens, it's things that all of them see that these things are being done by today's rulers don't serve the nation”

Another decision that is considered harmful to the auto business, but for the buyers themselves, it is also because of the lack of validation for the vehicle registration.

Trader Africa Salihu says that this decision by the Ministry of Infrastructure has been greatly damaged.

“I'm a car dealer, I register a car in five minutes and the buyer who buys it has to pay another 300 euros, that's a lot of madness just because they proposed and allowed me to put it into law”, he said.

For the process of counterparting and monopoly in this area, days ago, EU chief Nataliya Apostolova has also reacted.

It has asked Kosovo Assembly deputies to pressure the Government to abolish the Administrative Guide issued over the past year, which has enabled the continuation of the monopoly for auto-relation.