March 2021
Defence and security procurement’s ID
19. 03. 2021.
It is difficult to improve the practice in the Montenegrin public procurement system when the “rules of the game” keep changing. The penultimate day of 2019 brought the new Public Procurement Law (PPL), which introduced a number of new rules, along with a timeline of only six months for the players to master those. The…
Procurement planning did not unfold “according to the plan”
18. 03. 2021.
In practice, public procurement planning is meaningless, especially at the local level, by multiple and unexplained changes of public procurement plans, which results in spending slightly more than half of the planned expenditures for these purposes on an annual basis. A large number of contracting authorities are waiting for the Budget Law so that they…
For the Parliament which interferes in its work
11. 03. 2021.
We have sent 22 proposals for work plans of the parliamentary committees; we propose discussions on budget execution during the year, more involvement of the Parliament in monitoring and defining reforms and better communication with parliamentary oversight institutions. We have sent proposals to committees for economy, finance and budget, for security and defence, for anticorruption,…
Institute Alternative with the rapporteurs of the Venice Commission
02. 03. 2021.
President of the Managing Board at Institute Alternative, Stevo Muk, participated yesterday, March 1st, in a round table of rapporteurs of the Venice Commission and representatives of NGOs from Montenegro. The Minister of Justice, Human and Minority Rights in the Government of Montenegro requested an opinion of the Venice Commission on proposals of two laws…
We asked the Government for concrete steps, reliable reporting and greater public participation
01. 03. 2021.
We sent 26 suggestions for the Government’s Work Program, which are aimed at legislative initiatives for more efficient public administration reform and better rule of law, but also at publishing long-hidden information. Considering long-term activities of Institute Alternative in the areas of public finance, public administration and the rule of law, today we sent 26…