8 hours agoThe disagreement over where waste bills should be paid in Pristina, talks company chief head “Cleaning”
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)The disagreement between the Pristina municipality and the “Cleaning” is continuing now for several months, causing uncertainty among citizens regarding the country and the way of paying waste bills. The Pristina municipality calls on citizens that waste bill payment is carried out in the municipality, while the company “Cleaning” recalls it is [...]
The Pristina municipality calls on citizens that the payment of waste bills to be paid to the municipality, while the company “Cleaning” recalls that it is responsible for managing and collecting waste, so even the payment transfer should remain in its competence.
The chief executive of the company “Cleaning”, Petrit Recica , has talked about when the differences between them and the Pristina municipality were presented.
He says the Pristina municipality has had and continues to target it to replace it with private operators.
And actually the essence, to say, the first beginnings when we've presented those differences, was the idea of a municipality that replaced a public company with private operators, and that was one of the beginnings that we haven't agreed on and we don't agree. Because we consider that we're doing a public interest protection job, which is our company, because it's a company that performs waste collection service for nearly eighty years of experience in this industry”, Recica stressed, in an interview for Telegraph, broadcast Periscope.
The chief chief chief added further that above all the company “Cleaning” is public enterprise where the Pristina municipality itself has the main shareholder.
And this has been unprecedented and irrational in order to think that a public enterprise will be replaced, if they think it has to be done, then it's good, it belongs to shareholders to choose the mode if you want to have a company, normally, and then those legal obligations. However, the way they have chosen only to replace private operators has been unacceptable to us and continues to be unacceptable”, he underlined.
While, in terms of the issue of paying garbage, Recica said they continue to protect their law-based right.
And we normally continue to protect the right that we have based on law, the garbage regulation, where it's clearly defined and it's indisputable that the cleaning company is competent to register bills. Because it's definitely said in order, if you can see it's a change in the completion of Article 4 there that determines it, says waste generators pay directly to passrimony, and that's something that's been given to us by regulation as a duty and obligation, so it's not a matter of wanting”, he stated.
Recica reiterated that it is the only company that performs the service and that it is not the only company that has the most regulation to carry out the billing and the download.
The same is true of other local public enterprises in Pristina, and it is unfair that this issue of self-finance becomes a part of the municipal budget. And there's no logic that the municipality can record in our name, because we normally depend a lot on the incriminating because all the cost and the cost to them cover us with those” tools, he said.
He also said that since January of this year they have over 2m euros unincanned, adding further that if this continues, the service will be impossible.
For Telegrafi, Recica called for citizens to pay the waste bills only to the company “Cleaning”, redefining that the Pristina municipality has no legal right to submit envelopes to citizens, warning that it will be sent to the owner.
From a January 2025th from now on is our own competence and we call on citizens with fuller and better understanding to respond positively to our call, let them fulfil their obligations. If there's a conflict between us and the municipality, there shouldn't be citizen consequences, and I appreciate that as many payments as possible in our company, the possibilities are more real that we offer service”, he added.
Recica voiced optimism that disagreements with the Pristina municipality will get epilogue very soon. /Periscope/
