Prime Minister Milojko Spajic presided over the yesterday’s 4th session of the Public Administration Reform Council. It was noted that Montenegro made a significant progress in meeting key requirements for EU membership and a plan of activities was determined aiming to make further progress in this regard.
Mr Spajic’s office says the Prime Minister pointed out to the concrete results achieved in the previous period: improvement and harmonization of the normative framework in the civil service system, intensive activities concerning the adoption of the Law on Free Access to Information, the adoption and implementation of the Information Security Law, the final phase of the development of the employment plan in the field of environmental protection and social policy, with the support of the EU.
Also, the commission for the analysis and monitoring of temporary service contracts aims to cut the number of those contract by at least 20% by the end of 2025. Optimization of public administration is one of the top priorities of the government as well.
“We have to professionalize the system, attract the best qualified people to become part of public administration in order to create the basis for a much more effective system. It’s difficult to attract competent people to take responsibility if they can’t reward the best workers and thus improve the quality of the overall work.”
However, as he noted, some parts of public administration are overcrowded whereas others, which are of paramount importance for the economic progress and strengthening of the rule of law, face shortages.
“For now, we want to fill in the gaps and use the capabilities of workers who don’t contribute much by transferring them to other posts,” PM Spajic underlined.
He also said effective public administration, which would really serve both citizens and economy, was the most important goal of the 44th government, stressing its political readiness to carry out this process.
