Kosovo's Parliament Reforms Evident

Several irregularities in the Kosovo Assembly have been noted for sharing subsidies and for failing to monitor financial beneficiaries.

The National Audition Office has also recorded no records of the Parliament's object in the asset registers.

The National Auditing Office in the auditing report for the Kosovo Parliament's financial mirrors for 2019 has recorded irregularities in the division of subsidies for NGOs that have been out of the scope and nature of activities that are the first to support the Parliament.

According to the report, subsidy should only be in humanitarian interest, while the Parliament had divided subsidies to two nongovernmental organisations, whose scope had nothing to do with humanitarian activities.

The “targets these NGOs dealt with concerned the organisation of the film festival, as well as the organisation of the traditional Bosnian community festival. That had happened, as the head of the Assembly had deemed the separation of means to these two NGOs reasonable. The division of tools for activities that are out of the regulation criteria under which the Assembly shares specific amounts of subsidies affects the spending of resources incompatible with the purpose for which these funds have been approved. The secretary-general of the Assembly in co-operation with the Parliament's chairmanship, to ensure that the selection of the benefits of subsidies is done in line with the rules set criteria”, the report says.

Also found is that the Parliament has not made adequate monitoring for the beneficiaries of subsidies.

“Based on the Framework of Understanding between the Parliament and the beneficiary NGO, this should submit the report on spending the tools agreed on by the Parliament. Benefiting NGOs worth $5,000, had not yet submitted any report on vehicle spending, though it had spent more than a year on the benefit period. This, according to the beneficiary NGO, was still in the process of implementing the project. The secretary-general should ensure strengthening controls in the area of monitoring subsidies, providing relevant evidence concerning the use of tools by NGOs, in line with the target given”, says the latest report.

ZKA has also been recorded as violation by the secretary of the assembly, as in the accounting registry of the Kosovo Assembly's assets, the object in which the Assembly of Kosovo operates was not registered.

This had happened since, despite taking measures by the Parliament administration to link a contract with an economic operator for assessment of the object since 2018, procedures had failed due to complaints at O The E.P. However, the Assembly was again in procurement procedures to link such a contract”, the report said.

The non-registering of the Assembly's property records is estimated to affect the significant underestimation of capital assets owned by the Parliament.

The ZKA recommends the secretary-general of the Parliament that I must ensure that the Kosovo Assembly object, inherited as capital assets, is registered as soon as possible in the property register.