The new government forgot about the State Property Inspection: They haven't been working since October last year

The inspection for state property, as TV News has learned, has not been working for a year, because the government seems to have forgotten about it. With the formation of the 44th Government, there was also a change in the organization, so the responsibility for state property affairs passed from the Ministry of Finance to the new Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property

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Dragana Jaćimović, Photo: Printscreen/YouTube/TV Vijesti
Dragana Jaćimović, Photo: Printscreen/YouTube/TV Vijesti
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Who takes care of the property of all citizens? The inspection for state property, which as we know, has not been working since October last year...

"For a year, we did not have any type of supervision over state property at all. The changes in the work of the Government did not follow the changes to the Law on State Property, so we have a situation where, from 2023, the inspection for state property remained somewhere between the law and the regulation, between two ministries, and in the meantime, we were left without inspectors, that is, inspectors were left without authorization to work. Unfortunately, this is an area that really needs control," said Dragana Jaćimović from the Alternative Institute.

Since 2010, this inspection has been working within the Ministry of Finance. But, with the amendment of the Government Regulation in October last year, it is transferred to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property.

It was only in June of this year that the Government established a proposal to amend the law on state property, which harmonizes the law with the Regulation, but it was not adopted in the Assembly, because the majority of MPs opposed the amendment proposal of the Government and the majority of MPs.

Last year, this inspection had 36 inspections. Four inspectors were employed, the mandate of two has expired, and two have been assigned to another position. And state property remained without any - such control...

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