GLPS: Amendment of Law to Public Officials to Constitutional

The Kosovo Assembly yesterday ( Wednesday) adopted the Second Read Bill for Change and Fulfilling the Law for Public Officials.

The GLPS had reacted to the draft procedure and the contents of this law in June as well.

In the draft bill sent by the Government to the Assembly in June, the deadline for maintaining positions with taskeering has been two years. A new amendment that was integrated into the law adopted yesterday has been added to parliamentary procedures, where the deadline for keeping the task's leads has changed from two years to a year's first proposed, but with a option of extended time under any legal condition if the recruiting procedures have been announced, but that, for objective reasons, the position has not been met. This arrangement allows space to keep positions with the Bridgers long as practice has been made. This negative practice now legalised also enables and promotes daily policy to keep in free positions the task of “to appropriate civil labor “by undermining the entire regular legal mechanism for meeting these positions in accordance with rules and procedures guaranteeing meritocracy”, it is said in response.

Some of the major issues raised by GLPS in June of this year “are still valid for the bill adopted yesterday in the UN”.

“The LPS has found that this bill has not followed the order specified at 12th Act point No. ref. : AG 2262-23 of the Constitutional Court issued in September last year. The same excludes from the area of action some typical institutions, which should be part of the scope of this law. Disturbing remains the removal of the minimum threshold that at least 2 candidates must meet the conditions for the High Steering Level, resulting in a breach of competition, as the main pillar of merity”, the response follows.

GLPS has also raised concerns even about the waiting list, “through this bill the relevant institution is allowed to accept civil servants in a disrepute and without any legal obligation”.

The “which could result in massive civil service evacuation as a result of the institution's inaction and the passage of the 9-month deadline set in paragraph 5 of Article 67 of the same bill. Similarly, this bill limits the mandate of low- and medium-class civil servants leading for current officials, which is in full opposition to the above-mentioned Act. Finally, G The LPS considers this bill still not to be contrary to IGMA principles. The OECD, and deeply degradation the functioning of civilian service in Kosovo, in the form that has been presented”, is said to be further in response.

GLPS has called on all competent parties to submit the bill adopted by the Constitutional Court.

“This is a necessary step to ensure that the same is in line with the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo”, wrote G LPS in response.