Last Wednesday, the Civil Aviation Agency (ACV) announced a public competition for the director of that institution for a full term of four years, which was open for 15 days.
On April 19, the new CAA Board made a decision to announce a competition for the election of directors.
"The candidate must have a university degree, traffic, technical, legal or economic professions and at least five years of work experience", specified the competition.
The competition did not specify the level of professional education that the candidate must fulfill. According to the Law on Air Traffic, the same conditions are provided for a candidate for a Council member and for a director of ACV, namely the VII 1st degree of professional education.
On February 22, the Government appointed a new Council in composition Dženan Kolic (president) and members Velibor Mrdak, Vesko Knezevic, Ivana Borović i Jevto Bojović. Immediately after his appointment, Knežević resigned due to a conflict of interest, and the Government elected to replace him Svetlana Roganović March 1.
At the constitutive session, the new CAA Council canceled the competition from August last year for the election of directors, which was announced last year. At the same meeting, he was elected as the new acting executive director Ivan Šćekić who in ACV covered the position of director of the Air Navigation Safety Sector.
Events related to the competition announced last year are being investigated by the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT). A whistleblower from the ACV filed a criminal complaint with the SDT against the then president of the Council Dženan Kolić due to, as he states, the falsification of the concussion conditions.
At the end of August, he was elected by the ACV Council at the time as director Vladislav Vlahović at the beginning of August at the suggestion of the then Minister of Capital Investments Ervin Ibrahimović dismissed from the position of Council member in this agency, because it was discovered that he does not meet the legal requirements for that position. Due to this case, at the request of Ibrahimović, the entire Council was replaced at the Government session.
The whistle-blower (employee) from ACV handed over to the chief special prosecutor Vladimir Novović criminal complaint against Kolic, several unknown persons, members of the Council and employees of CAA due to, as stated, abuse of official position during the election of the director of CAA. Novović was given as evidence the CAA's vacancy application submitted to the Employment Agency (July 28), where it is required that the director candidate has a VII 1st degree qualification (traffic, technical, legal or economic profession) and which has the Institute's stamp, while in the competition advertised on the Institute's website (August 2), Part VII 1 degree of professional education was deleted.
Kolić denied that there was any illegal action in this case.
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