Last year, the Regulatory Agency for Energy and Utilities (REGAGEN) did not harmonize financial transactions and other activities with the laws on management and internal controls, wages of employees in the public sector, labor and public procurement.
In addition, the non-compliance of the business was also determined with the regulations on the method and criteria for solving housing needs and office operations and archival material, as well as the regulations on the conditions and method of using state-owned vehicles and reimbursement of expenses of employees in the public sector.
This was confirmed in the report of the State Audit Institution (DRI), which, because of the above, gave REGAGEN a conditional opinion on the audit of the regularity of operations for the past year, with the obligation to implement 18 recommendations in the next six months.
The President of the Board of the Agency is Branislav Prelevic.
The SAI gave a positive opinion on the financial operations of REGAGEN, drawing attention to the fact that when recording expenses in the business books, it consistently applies the Rulebook on the accounting framework and content of accounts.
The competent collegium of the SAI, consisting of senators Nikola Kovačević and Branislav Radulović, will send the final audit report to the Parliament and the Government.
The audit established that REGAGEN paid individual employees interest simultaneously on the basis of two housing loans taken out from a commercial bank, as well as that it granted the same persons more than one loan from the company's money on different grounds.
Last year, the agency undertook to pay interest on the missing amount for a member of the board, who obtained the right to a loan from a commercial bank from the agency's money for improving living conditions.
The SAI stated that after reviewing the Rulebook on the method and criteria for solving housing needs in REGAGEN, it was determined that the possibility of granting a new housing loan to an employee before paying off the previous one was not clearly defined, as well as the time period after which the employee can exercise the right to a new housing loan was not clearly defined. credit.
In addition, the rulebook does not define the possibility of exercising the right to subsidize the interest on a loan taken from a commercial bank in the event that the total amount of the employee's belongings cannot be provided from the company's money.
According to the findings of the SAI, it was also determined that REGAGEN does not provide adequate and precise records of the presence of employees at work, and therefore no valid data on the number of hours spent at work as an element for calculating wages, and the data from the records signed by the employees do not match. with data from the payroll card.
The audit also established that the executive director (Milica Knežević) did not issue orders for the use and control of vehicle use and fuel consumption in the manner prescribed by the regulation.
In addition, the costs of official trips were calculated and paid according to orders that were not submitted within the established deadline, which is contrary to the regulation. It was also established that the Agency, by regulation, determined the VII1 level of education for certain jobs, and these jobs do not require expertise and work experience.
DRI indicates that the regulator has concluded a work contract for a period of 12 months for the performance of cleaning and hygienic maintenance of premises and equipment, for which a workplace has been determined according to the rulebook on systematization, which is contrary to the Labor Law.
Among other things, SAI notes that REGAGEN did not report procurements for landline telephony services in the amount of 1.721 euros, mobile telephony and internet services in the amount of 9.727 euros and accommodation services in the amount of 5.513 euros in the Report on Procurements.
They determined their own coefficients
The audit established that the Agency calculated the salaries of the president and members by applying the coefficients determined by its rulebook, and not based on the decision on salaries required to be made by the Parliamentary Administrative Committee, and that this is contrary to the Law on Salaries of Employees in the Public Sector, which prescribes that the decision on salary for persons who have been elected is made by the work body that appointed them.
The SAI's recommendation is that the Administrative Board of the Assembly should pass a decision on the salary for the president and members of the Board in accordance with the aforementioned law.
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