The acting director of the Institute for Medicines and Medical Devices, Mira Kontić, did not work in management positions, which means that she was not elected to that position last year in accordance with the Law and the Statute of that institution.
This is shown by the documentation of the Ministry of Health of Serbia, where Kontić worked for six years, and which "Vijesti" had access to.
From the decision on the employment of Kontić, which is signed by the former Minister of Health of Serbia, Zlatibor Lončar, it can be seen that from 2014 to 2020, she worked as a civil servant in the ministry there, in a position for normative tasks.
According to the first decision, dated September 25, 2014, Kontić was assigned as a civil servant to a position for normative tasks in the field of drugs and medical devices, starting from October 1 of that year. She worked as an independent consultant until 2019, and after that as a senior consultant. All three solutions show that she was assigned to an executive position.
According to the Law on Medicines, a person who has at least VII1 level of educational qualification and at least five years of professional and managerial work experience in the field of regulation of medicines and medical devices, and whose strategy development of the Institute is accepted by the Management Board and the Professional-Scientific Board. This is also prescribed by the Statute of CInMED.
The statute also prescribes what belongs to professional jobs, which are separated from other jobs - quality and training, regulatory harmonization and international cooperation, laboratory, scientific-research and administrative-logistical support jobs.
Last year, CInMED adopted the Rulebook, according to which data from the personnel files of employees are marked with a degree of secrecy internally. This also applies to officials employed in that institution.
Yesterday, "Vijesti" asked CInMED what professional and managerial positions Kontić worked on, and that institution said that they could not give answers regarding the decision on establishing an employment relationship with another, in this case, a regulatory body of a foreign government.
"You can turn to the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia, which is responsible, considering that it is about data from the file of a former employee, as well as the Rulebook on systematization of that Ministry, to assess whether it is information of public importance," it was announced. is from CInMED.
At the end of August, the board of directors of this institution abolished the conditions that the director of the institution must have a health-related faculty and a scientific title or specialization in health care, and appointed as acting director the lawyer Mira Kontić, whom some media and MPs claim is close to Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić. , whose family members are in the pharmaceutical business.
The CInMED expert-scientific board claimed that the then initiative of the Management Board to amend the Rulebook on the internal organization and systematization of workplaces was not in accordance with the Statute and Rules of Procedure of that institution and that the members of that body were breaking the law. Among other things, they pointed out that the Law on Medicines, adopted after many years of coordination with the European Commission and the EU legal acquis, prescribed the organization of CInMED on the basis of such bodies of EU member states. They also stated that it is European practice for such institutions to be managed by an expert in the field of health sciences, medicine and pharmacy, and that it is the same in Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, North Macedonia...
The expert-scientific board claimed that Kontić does not even meet the legal requirement - that the director has at least five years of experience in professional and managerial positions in the field of regulation of drugs and medical devices.
It was not possible to verify these allegations in CInMED, because the Management Board, in accordance with the new rulebook, declared the personal data of employees, including public officials of that institution, secret.
In December last year, "Vijesti" announced that the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK) launched an investigation against acting director Mira Kontić, as well as member of the Board of Directors of that institution Lidija Čizmović.
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