The Romanian Government adopted, in the meeting on Thursday, July 24, the memorandum on the establishment of an inter -ministerial working group dedicated to the reform of the public enterprises.
The working group will act and will permanently report to the prime minister. Photo: Government of Romania
The working group will be coordinated by Deputy Prime Minister Dragoș Anastasiu and will include two other deputy prime ministers, including Marian Neacșu, as well as representatives of several key ministries: Finance, Economics, Transport, Energy, Environment, Health, Justice, Digitalization and the General Secretariat of the Government, Victoria.
It is not the same group as that of private consultants
Ioana Dogioiu said that this memorandum does not refer to the group of private experts that was mentioned above.
“The group of consultants is to be constituted afterwards, when its composition is clear. (…) In the memorandum adopted today, this group of experts is not included. The group of experts will work, when it will work, in addition to this working group constituted today, through this memorandum. But the memorandum does not refer to it”, she explained, according to Agerpres.
The objectives of the group
The new working group will have as a mission the analysis of the situation of public enterprises and the proposal of concrete measures for:
– Ensuring transparency in managing state companies
– Reducing the number of members in the Board of Directors and Supervisory
– review of driving allowances and performance indicators
– establishing financial and investment performance criteria
– Reducing surplus staff
– Publishing the data and criteria of evaluation on the management of companies
– Reorganization of the Agency for Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Enterprises Performance (AMEPIP), in compliance with the indicators established by the PNR and according to the OECD standards.
Among the measures envisaged are the closure, merger or transfer of companies with losses registered three years in a row, as well as the listing of public enterprises, according to the model of the performing state companies.
The working group will act and will permanently report to the Prime Minister, which will monitor the stage of the reforms. In parallel, an analysis of the arrears registered by certain public enterprises will be initiated.
