The performance of directors of public enterprises is kept secret

The Unit for Policy and Monitoring of Public Enterprises is obliged by law to compile assessments for the directors of each enterprise and publish them on the website. But the documents are missing. In the Unit operating within the Ministry of Economy, they did not explain the lack of reports. Experts in the economy estimated that this lack of data is an indicator of politicization and mismanagement of enterprises over the years.

The effectiveness of the directors of public, central and regional enterprises is kept secret from the citizens.

Although the Law on these enterprises requires the Policy and Monitoring Unit to compile evaluations and publish them on the website, documents on the directors' performance are missing.

In the Unit operating within the Ministry of Economy, they did not explain the lack of these documents.

The economic expert, Safet Gërxaliu, estimates that this lack of data is an indicator of politicization and mismanagement of enterprises over the years.

"Public enterprises today are much more of a burden on the state than they contribute to the state and for the state. They have had a rather gloomy past, where there was a lack of transparency, a lack of accountability, they were politicized, they were criminalized and all this has damaged the economy of Kosovo, damage that we are paying for today and they will pay for it even generations in the future", said Gërxaliu. "In this regard, the first reflection of abuses and politicization is the lack of data and transparency."

The researcher of the GAP Institute, Besart Zhuja, says that there are also many documents missing for the drafting of which the public enterprises themselves are obliged. It lays out the need for more transparency.
"In addition to the legal obligation towards citizens to publish reports, in order to be more transparent with the public, they are also obliged to the shareholder, i.e. to the Government, to publish and submit these reports, so that the shareholder, in this case the Government, to monitor and evaluate the work and performance. The law obliges these reports to be submitted to the Unit, which constantly monitors the work progress of public enterprises", said Zhuja.

Until last week, some of the annual financial reports, business plans, and satisfaction reports were missing from the website of the Unit for Policy and Monitoring of Public Enterprises. However, they were published on the website, only after KOHA asked about their absence.