The former government, led by Duško Marković, passed a decree at the session on December 2, which foresees that approvals for conceptual projects of residential buildings and other buildings with a gross developed area of more than 3.000 square meters will be transferred from the state level to the capital city.
The regulation on, as they called it, entrusting part of the work of the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism to the Capital City of Podgorica implies that the Capital City gives its consent to conceptual solutions for buildings with a gross construction area of 3.000 square meters and more.
The new Minister of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism, Ratko Mitrović, confirmed for DAN that this decree will be canceled at the next Government sessions.
"All decrees, including this one, which the former Government of Montenegro passed in the meantime, and which refer to the approval of the conceptual solution for BRGP of 3.000 square meters and more, which was entrusted to the Capital City of Podgorica, and are under the jurisdiction of MORT, will return is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism, according to the current Law on Spatial Planning and Building Construction. By transferring the competence to the Capital City, the former Government tried to create an overcomposition of power in order to take the tools out of the hands of the Ministry so that we could not optimally manage the space ", Mitrović announced.
On the question of whether entrusting affairs to the Capital City. represents an attempt to overcompose power when it comes to controlling space as one of the most important state resources, Dejan Milovac, director of the MANS Research Center, answers in the affirmative.
"It is completely clear that the now former government and its Prime Minister Duško Marković tried to shift the responsibilities of the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism related to the construction, primarily of large buildings, to the hands of the Capital City in order to ensure the continuation of the monopoly over decision-making. tries to create a continuity of practice in which MORT was a service for the profit interests of so-called strategic investors and domestic construction tycoons, and not a protector of space and in general what is called the public interest in the process of spatial planning. the most favorable starting position ahead of the next local elections in Podgorica, which was the usual principle of DPS rule," says Milovac.
Milovac, when asked what consequences the decree passed by the former government will have in obtaining construction permits, said that it will undoubtedly mean giving power to the mayor of Podgorica.
"The administration of the Lion City, headed by Ivan Vuković, has already shown halfway through its mandate that it does not have the capacity to consistently comply with laws and regulations, as well as that its dominant principle of action is the protection of the profit interests of construction companies, and the less public interests, the right of the citizens of Podgorica to responsible and transparent public administration. Violation of tender procedures, spontaneous planning of the city and waste of taxpayers' money is certainly not something that Ivo na Vuković recommends for personnel who need to be given additional powers, especially in the spatial planning sector. This will make Vuković's position even more sensitive to corruption, and past experience has shown that the administration of the Capital City is no stranger to lawlessness and unprecedented violations of the laws and regulations of this state. That is why there are real fears that the office of the mayor of Podgorica could become an address for making new decisions to the detriment of the public interest, only now with much greater consequences," said Milovac, for DAN.
Aleksić: Regulation adopted at the request of the Capital City
The Chief City Architect, Filip Aleksić, states that the Capital City asked the Government to return the powers they had before.
"Amendments to the Law on Spatial Planning and Construction of Buildings, which were adopted in August of this year, took away the authority of the city's architects to approve conceptual solutions for buildings with a gross developed area of more than 3.000 square meters. Considering that the city of Glavim is rapidly developing and that new facilities are mostly being built in our city, and bearing in mind more efficient control of local self-government, the village asked the Government to transfer the jobs that we performed in the previous period in the best possible way. The transfer of these jobs is also foreseen by the amendments to this law," says Aleksić.
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