6 hours agoAKK: Finance Ministry is blocking property assessment, local development threatened
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)The executive director of the Kosovo Commission Association, Saban Ibrahimi, has accused the Ministry of Finance of misinterpreting the law and of unjust prevention of technical processes of municipal property assessment, which are expected to be provided in exploitation or exchange. In an interview for Online Economy, Ibrahim stressed that this ministry action could [...]
In an interview for Online Economy, Ibrahimi stressed that the ministry's move could negatively affect local economic development and urged urgent review of the move.
“Association, after receiving information from Kosovo municipalities that the Finance Ministry has released a circuit asking municipalities to prevent processes in terms of assessment of municipal property that could be provided in use and exchange. This ministry seems to have confused the law in force for providing municipal property in use and exchange, because this process is technical, that is, the assessment of property for use and exchange is technical process, whereas with legislation in effect in Kosovo said that after the day of announcing local elections by the president, then all processes in terms of making decisions in municipal municipalities for providing municipal property in use and exchange should be stopped, but not technical processes”, he said.
He stressed that the property assessment process is a technical-administration step and does not include any political decision making.
This is a technical-administration process that has nothing to do with decision-making, because the decision-making decision to provide municipal property is done in municipal municipalities, and municipal congregations after the municipal organs are formed after local elections that we will have on October 12th of this year, then they can make decisions. This process, if not done now, can be carried out after the elections. After the elections, it takes a certain time and this affects normal local economic development. Any negative impact on normal local economic development that also affects Kosovo citizen”, Ibrahim said.
He added that the finance ministry's circuit is contrary to the law and that technical processes should continue.
For this reason, we have found that this ministry is not being brought on the basis of legislation in force in terms of the assessment of municipal property that can be provided in exploitation and exchange, because it has nothing to do with political decision making. We ask this minister to express this circuit so that technical-administration processes that do not affect political decision-making allow them to walk as they have done so far so that some processes that affect local economic development do not stop. There are unresolved property issues as far as the assessment is concerned, local roads, sidewalks, parks, means any activity that goes to the benefit of the citizen, as far as property assessment is concerned, he concluded.
The Kosovo municipalities' association requires central institutions to act in accordance with the law and not prevent processes that are vital to the functioning and development of municipalities. /Periscope/
