Experts urge control of budget salaries

The government is to blame for the high salaries earned by Serbia's public companies' managements, Verica Barać believes.

Izvor: B92

Saturday, 13.12.2008.

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The government is to blame for the high salaries earned by Serbia's public companies' managements, Verica Barac believes. Barac, who heads Serbia's Anti-Corruption Council, believes that the way to deal with a recent wave of affairs, that revealed public sector salaries that shocked many Serbians, is through budget control mechanisms. Experts urge control of budget salaries The government should soon adopt rules that are expected to cap the salaries of managers employed by the state, which at this point reach hundreds of thousands of euros. Barac told B92 TV that the real culprit are the parties in power, since they finance themselves through these public enterprises. Namely, political parties that manage to put together a government in Serbia then proceed to appoint their people to the top state-owned companies and public sector jobs. Barac believes that corruption will flourish without proper control mechanisms. "Unless that happens, it means that this is not the road to Europe and that this is not respect of standards. We are in some sort of a blind alley, and it would be good to see what we have," she continued. "Right now there is no control or responsibility, and without those, there is no democratic government." The government could limit the salaries of directors of public companies, while its representatives cannot claim that they are not informed about the figures on the paychecks of those working under them, she said. Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic, who took part in the same television program, says that ministers, too, should be held accountable for the current situation. "I think that the depth of the social crisis caused and revealed with this situation is so great that it would be an illusion to expect it will all end with a couple of directors." Both experts claim that the tax payer and budget money will continue to be spent in this manner until institutions have been established with the goal to control public procurement and public spending.

Experts urge control of budget salaries

The government should soon adopt rules that are expected to cap the salaries of managers employed by the state, which at this point reach hundreds of thousands of euros.

Barać told B92 TV that the real culprit are the parties in power, since they finance themselves through these public enterprises.

Namely, political parties that manage to put together a government in Serbia then proceed to appoint their people to the top state-owned companies and public sector jobs.

Barać believes that corruption will flourish without proper control mechanisms.

"Unless that happens, it means that this is not the road to Europe and that this is not respect of standards. We are in some sort of a blind alley, and it would be good to see what we have," she continued.

"Right now there is no control or responsibility, and without those, there is no democratic government."

The government could limit the salaries of directors of public companies, while its representatives cannot claim that they are not informed about the figures on the paychecks of those working under them, she said.

Ombudsman Saša Janković, who took part in the same television program, says that ministers, too, should be held accountable for the current situation.

"I think that the depth of the social crisis caused and revealed with this situation is so great that it would be an illusion to expect it will all end with a couple of directors."

Both experts claim that the tax payer and budget money will continue to be spent in this manner until institutions have been established with the goal to control public procurement and public spending.

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