Super-agency with the richest budget has insured funds
The financial resources for the independent functioning of the Agency for Monitoring the Performance of Public Enterprises (AMPIP) are provided for a period of two years, the funds that have been collected in this regard from the monitoring tariff being 82 million lei, said the Deputy Secretary of the General Secretariat of the Government, Adrian Ţuţuianu.
He made the specification on Tuesday in a press briefing at the Victoria Palace, held together with the national coordinator for OECD, Luca Niculescu, in the context of launching the Romanian version of the Guide for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on the corporate governance of state-owned enterprises.
He was asked when the Agency for Monitoring the Performance of Public Enterprises was being operational.
« Operationalization is not a process that ends in a month or in half a year, there are several factors that we consider. The first thing that will be solved will be the resumption of the procedure of selection of the agency. National recovery and resilience.
Secondly, it was referred to providing financial resources for the operation of AMPIP.
« This issue is resolved today, there is a tariff for monitoring public enterprises. With the money that has been collected from this tariff, Ampip ensures its financial independence for a period of two years. So, there is no question of dependence on the state budget, a condition also important in appreciating the operation, » said Ţu.
He added that the close amount for the independent operation of Ampip amounts to about 82 million lei.
« Somewhere at 82 million lei, we are talking about the monitoring fee for 2024. With the specification that this monitoring fee was paid somewhere at 85% -87% of public enterprises. The difference of 10-12 percent is in analysis at AMPI Dissolving, others are in judicial reorganization procedures ”, explained Ţuţuianu.
At the same time, he emphasized the « need for staff » for the operationalization.
« We have, today, from nearly 90 employees, if I remember the figure, somewhere at 57-58 employees. Many of them are still with the situation of detached, because we had to take from various institutions, from the public governance compartments within the ministries, from other structures that had to do with this subject. Unfortunately I did not have many outside.
This pointed out the need to complete the selection procedures at all public enterprises.
« And there are few, there are 140 public enterprises at central level and about 1,170 public enterprises at local level. There are problems here and what to do ampip because it proves to be operational: to check these procedures, to have remedial and cancellation measures and I think you have already heard that such measures have been ordered. I understand to apply the rules of corporate governance ”, said Ţuţuianu.
He mentioned, as an aspect related to the operationalization ampip, « the reduction of the provisional appointments ».
« Let us finally show that the whole process related to the professionalization of the board of directors, to measure the performance, to capitalize on the information provided by the ‘dashboard’, as a tool for measuring the performance of public enterprises, so that this process is controlled, well done and in an adequate time by the Agency for Monitoring the Performance of Public Enterprises, » said Ţu.
At AMEPIP, the budgets will be paid 50% in addition to the normal salary from the state.
