16 minutes agoIKD: Government Did Not Meet Half of Legislative Agenda
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)The Kosovo Institute for Justice (IKD), with support from Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), has held the media conference where the report, titled “Planification (No), is presented to the Government”, which is the result of direct and systematic monitoring that IKD has made to the Government of the Republic of Kosovo in connection with meeting the programme [...]
During the media conference, Naim Jakaj, author of the report, has stressed that the Government of the Republic of Kosovo has failed to meet its plan regarding the adoption of the concept of documents, reports “Justice Trust”.
The government has adopted 21 concept documents from 71 as planned, or less than 30% of the planning. In the face of failing to implement the planned, the government has adopted two other concepts of documents that have not been planned. In six cases, the IKD has found that in the case of drafting these documents, obligations related to public consultations” have been ignored, Jakaj has declared.
According to him, the largest number of documents submitted and approved in the Government has the MBPZR with 5 (project) concept of documents submitted and adopted in Government, followed by MD and MKRS with three sosh. Five ministries during 2022 have followed no draft document for approval in the Government of the Republic of Kosovo.
“In the absence of adequate planning, but during 2022, the Government changed and fulfilled the legislative programme nine times. Thus, during 2022, the Government had more monthly plans than the year”, Jakaj concluded.
While, Eranda Zekaj, a researcher at the IKD, has declared that the government has not fulfilled even half of its legislative plan, despite the fact that during 2022, the government had more monthly plans than annual.
“Despite frequent changes, the government during 2022 has failed to adopt even half of the planned bills, fulfilling the legislative agenda only 41.5%, while adopting 71 of the 171 planned bills, respectively. Moreover, 32 bills were adopted outside the planned deadline. While despite the fact that the Government changed fully nine times the legislative agenda, which it fulfilled only 41.5%, on three occasions it ignored this agenda, adopting unplanned drafts”, Zekij has declared.
According to Zekaj, out of the 48 bills the government has been obliged to hold public consultations, the Government has fulfilled this obligation in 29 cases, until it has done so in 19 cases. Expressed to percentage, the Government has not fulfilled this obligation in approximately 40% of the cases.
According to the report published by the IKD, regarding bills adopted under the 2022 Legal Programme and prosecuted in the Kosovo Assembly, it has managed to pass 36 of 71 or 50.7% of the bills. Thus, government efficiency has continued in the Assembly.
“krahasily with the number of bills the Government is planning to adopt, the Assembly has approved in second review only 21.05% of them. Thus, the rest of the bills adopted in the Government, which have not been adopted by the Parliament, are considered completed in Government, but that their adoption has not yet occurred”, the IKD report said.
On the other hand, the IKD report found that during 2022, The IKD has found that seven of the government's 71 bills and procedures have had constitutional problems, for which the IKD had reacted consistently during 2022. Unfortunately, in some cases, without addressing constitutional problems, the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo has adopted these bills. Some of these bills are being handled by the ombudsman Institute, while a law is being addressed by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo.
