GAP Institute discusses on the work of inspectorates in Kosovo
05/03/2014
Inspectorates in Kosovo face a number of practical obstacles, unclear legal basis, lack of safety in their work, and unclear separation of competences between central and local level inspectorates
GAP Institute organized today a debate with the representatives of over 20 inspectorates in Kosovo to discuss about law implementation, the role of inspectorates and their organization.
Visar Rushiti – policy analyst at GAP Institute presented the analysis on the findings of a few months research process about the problems which face the inspectorates in Kosovo. Mr. Rushiti specified the conflicts which come up as a result of unclear division of competences between the central and local level inspectorates. As a problem identified in the GAP analysis is the non-efficiency of the courts, where many court cases just get prescribed as they are not solved by them. The Inspection Directorate of the Municipality of Mitrovica waits a number of 3000 court cases to be solved. Also, based on the presentation of Mr. Rushiti, the legal basis of many inspectorates is not clear and the idea of having a central inspectorate as a state agency has been discussed. In this analysis, the working conditions of inspectors, low salaries, the small number of inspectors, etc.
Zenun Pajaziti – Chairman of the Committee on Economic Development informed the participants about the annual working plan of the Committee, where the oversight of the work of inspectorate is part of this year’s working plan and this process will be developed in cooperation with GAP Institute.
In this debate, several inspectors of the central and local level inspectorates contributed too. Basri Ibrahimi – Chief Inspectors of the Work Inspectorate as part of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare mentioned the small number of inspectors as a problem which do not achieve to cover all the businesses and at the same time requested from decision making institutions to increase the number of inspectors.
Çerkin Dukolli from the Ministry of Infrastructure, Hysni Komoni from the Energy Inspectorate, Basri Ibrahimi from the Work Inspectorate and other inspectorate’s representatives criticized the law on inspections, which law has been approved in the Government in December 27th, 2013. According to them, this draft law just makes more difficult the work of inspectorates, because the draft law anticipates the inspections to be carried out after a warning has been done and the permission of the court has been granted.
Xhelal Sveçla – Director of the Inspections Directorate presented the problem of unclear legal basis for inspectorates, the scarce competences of inspectorates, the small number of inspectors in the Municipality of Prishtina, and bad working conditions of the inspectors in this Municipality. Mr. Sveçla mentioned also the cases where the graduated Architect is paid based on the coefficient 6, which is 280 euros per month.
