Accountable public finances

Discussion on the first year of the Law on public procurement implementation

President of the Managing Board, Stevo Muk participated at the workshop “New Law on Public Procurement: Lessons Learned from the first year of implementation,” which is organized by the Public Procurement Administration and SIGMA on 28 March 2013 at Hotel Maestral (Becici). The workshop is focused on the analysis of the Law on Public Procurement…

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Rule of law

Statement: NSA should be politically and ideologically neutral

Question from the daily “Dan”: How do you comment on the fact that the Army of Montenegro and the National Security Agency (NSA), during 2006, led the lists of political orientation of Pljevlja’s garrison officers regarding the referendum, as evidenced in the document released today in daily „Dan“? Reply of our public policy researcher, Dina…

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Public policy school

I module of the 2013 Public Policy School

The first module of the Public Policy school was held on March, 23 and 24 2013. Introductory theme was: “The concept and the actors of policy-making” explained to participants with more details by professor Tihomir Ziljak from the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb. The topic: Policy-making process: concept and policy classification as well as…

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Rule of law

Press release: Transparency of the National Security Agency must be increased

Traditional opacity of intelligence services is an outdated concept and the National Security Agency (NSA) should also take a more proactive role in bringing their work to the public in accordance with best practices and standards of transparency. We call upon the Head of NSA to make steps toward increasing transparency and reveal information about…

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Accountable public finances, Parliamentary program

Our suggestions for this year’s agenda of the Committee for economy, budget and finance

Committee on Economy, Finance and Budget is currently formulating its agenda for 2013. year. The competencies of this Committee intertwine with our work in the research area Public finance. We addressed the Chair of the Committee with a set of proposals and suggestions that we believe should be included in the this year’s Agenda: Consultative…

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Rule of law

Press release: Deployment to peacekeeping missions beyond the reach of the Parliament

The government decides independently on the participation of members of civil defense, police and government employees in peacekeeping missions and other activities abroad. The Parliament is completely excluded from this process. Committee for Security and Defense is neither consulted regarding deployment nor informed about the participation of these state representatives in peacekeeping missions. At the…

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