Create an action plan to combat the gray economy

Drafting an action plan to combat the gray economy, which would contribute to the prevention of illegal trade in cigarettes, textiles and internet trade, would be useful, assessed the representatives of the Montenegrin Administration for Inspection Affairs and the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government of Serbia.

At the meeting, as announced by the UIP, examples of good practice, novelties in the Law on Inspection Supervision, which has been in force in Serbia since 2015 and whose amendment is being prepared in Montenegro in the near future, the capacities of inspections, cooperation were exchanged. with the courts, coordination and cooperation with the economy and the digitization process.

A delegation of the Directorate for Inspection Affairs, consisting of director Ilir Harasani, his assistant Ana Vujošević and head of representation and provision of legal assistance in the field of inspection supervision, Ljiljana Jovović, paid a working visit to the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government in Belgrade on Monday.

Representatives of the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government of Serbia, Dragan Pusara and Ljiljana Uzelac, presented the achievements of the Support Unit to the Coordination Commission for Inspection Supervision, which is the body that coordinates the work of all inspection services in Serbia.

"In Serbia, there is an elinspektor system, which software is connected to over 30 registers, while the next phase is the formation of a unique database of the Serbian economy with data on business entities and risk analysis," the announcement states.

The UIP stated that the implementation of the risk analysis module, through which matrices will be used to create the control plan, has been started in the Directorate for Inspection Affairs, and the experience of the Coordination Commission of Serbia is extremely important.

At the meeting, in addition to the situation with covid 19 and the transferred control of epidemiological measures to the inspection authorities, special attention was paid to suppressing the gray economy, "black" work and unfair competition, because this problem affects both countries.

The delegation of the Directorate for Inspection Affairs is very satisfied with the productive visit to the Ministry of Public Administration and State Administration.