Improving professional management in local public enterprises

Aim of the project is to curb direct political influence to management of local utility companies and other locally owned enterprises and to raise professionalism and law compliance. We want to raise awareness about massive number of law violating cases at the local level, regarding provisions of the Law onPublic Companies (as we previously did with the state-owned enterprises/public companies) and to offer assistance to local authorities to improve law compliance and to raise transparency in this field.

We are monitoring compliance with the Law on Public Enterprises at the local level, regarding conditions for selecting directors and members of supervisory boards of local public enterprises/utility companies (municipal owned enterprises) – publishing public calls or appointing acting directors, required education,skills, experience etc. We included more then 20 cities and municipalities and more then 50 public companies in the sample for the research, covering various geographic areas, different size of cities and municipalities. Additional to researching state of the affairs with current management, are monitoring appointment of new management in the companies included in the sample in cases when public calls are published and/or management members appointed during the project implementation. In the results’ analysis TS will pay attention (and raise public awareness) about gender issue.

Project duration: 15 June 2024 – 30 June 2025