The Railway Regulatory Authority Board dismissed, their response comes

Ex-bort of Railway Regulatory Authority - The ARH, has reacted following their dismissal yesterday at the Kosovo Assembly.

In a response, their dismissal is said to be anti-legal and overloaded with slander and fiction.

They describe this as an attack on even the ARH institution itself.

Such decisions violate the institution's independence and create a judicial uncertainty in continuing the operation of the ARH. Much more, when we already have an institutional vacuum in the independent institution, since, by August, the ARH remains untitled and procedures for selecting new titles take time. The argument for the dismissal of the ARH Board, on the part of several deputies of the Commission for Agriculture, Forestry, Rural Development, Infrastructure, Environment, Spatial Planning and Infrastructure of the Kosovo Assembly, is said to have no concrete or legal argument since the response.

Their full response without interference:

The Kosovo Assembly, yesterday, dated 21.07.2021, made a decision on the dismissal of the ARH Board, in a completely unclear, anti-legal and overloaded process of slander and fiction. The same is the attack on the independent body of ARH itself.

Such a decision violates the institution's independence and creates a judicial uncertainty in continuing to operate the ARH. Much more, when we already have an institutional vacuum in the independent institution, since, by August, the ARH remains untitled and procedures for selecting new titles take time.

The argument for the dismissal of the ARH Board, on the part of several deputies of the Commission for Agriculture, Forestry, Rural Development, Infrastructure, Environment, Space Plan and Infrastructure of the Kosovo Assembly has no real and legal argument. The use of information presented by this commission has been sponsored by very low levels, where their presentation has noted that MPs themselves have fallen prey to such nonsense, and such as these have proved completely biased and unreal. We will testify to that, in our address to justice organs.

The real, first and last reason, is the tendency to install influence and control in this institution as a whole by current power, because at the end of July, this year's contract expires to Chief Executive Chief and, under the law, this Bord has been able to continue the contract for the current chief chief chief or to conduct procedures under the law to elect the new chief chief chief. Also, even this one, Border himself, had no mandate for more than three months and a week.

Interestingly, at the drop points, the basic reasoning given is a recommendation of the National Audition Office (ZKA), which in fact that recommendation is of a completely different institution, but addressing this recommendation is used for the dismissal of the ARH. This is a disinformation that has been done to MPs and public opinion. That's easy to prove.

On the contrary, in 2016, when the current board took office, ZKA, has provided six recommendations for the findings/scales listed. While in professional work and the good performance of this board, in 2018, 2019 and 2020, the ZKA has found no violations and has offered no recommendation.

This fact makes the ARH the institution alone instead of this level, which has excellent performance, which is also estimated by the SKA. Consequently, even all the expenses made have been processed to conform to Laws and sublegal acts in force, which has been proven over the years.

Other reasons show the ignorance of some deputies in the functional Commission, where we are accused of rights and responsibilities of other institutions (Infrastructural Ministry, Public Company “Trainos”, Public Company “Infracos”, the Ministry of Economy, etc), for which the ARH has no legal responsibility.

The ARH board will follow all legal ways to oppose this arbitrary decision and slander presented.

We call on all local and international mechanisms that deal with the supervision of the rule of law, but also those that deal with the work of the railway sector, to react to this arbitrary and non-legal decision and to prevent the degradation of this institution, therefore the entire sector.