According to the draft regulatory act on the activities of this body, the Agency for Monitoring and Evaluation of State Enterprises (AMEPIP) will have a maximum number of 88 positions, excluding senior officials and related positions. submitted for public discussion by the General Secretariat of the Government.

The creation of the new agency, motivated by the implementation of the main milestones and reforms in the PNRR to improve the corporate governance of state-owned companies, was approved by Law 187/2023 published in the Official Gazette last month.

This is after the Constitutional Court rejected the unconstitutionality complaint filed by USR and Forța Dreptei regarding the creation of this agency.

The government is currently also preparing a regulatory act on the organization and activities of this agency.

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How PSD and PNL share control of this agency

The new agency will report to the Government and be coordinated by the Prime Minister through the General Secretariat of the Government.

It should be emphasized that the liberals managed to impose their person at the head of the General Secretariat of the government, namely Mircha Abrudyan, who was initially rejected by Prime Minister Marcel Čolaku.

On the other hand, Deputy Prime Minister without PSD portfolio, Marian Neatsu, has been given extended powers in the Çolaku government, including the coordination of the General Secretariat of the Government.

The president of the agency will receive the same amount as the secretary of state, about 2,000 euros per month.

The Agency will be managed by the president, who will be assisted in his work by two vice-presidents.

In terms of salary, they will be equated to the positions of state secretary, respectively deputy state secretary. Their mandate will last for four years with the possibility of a one-time extension.

According to the uniform salary law, the Secretary of State now has a gross salary of 16,640 lei, which would mean a net salary of 9,734 lei (approximately €2,000).

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Employees of the Agency will receive 50% more salary compared to other state employees

The agency will have a maximum number of 88 posts, excluding senior officials and the number of related posts, and will be staffed by civil servants and contract staff.

According to the draft resolution of the Government, their official salary will be the maximum salary level provided for public positions in the Government apparatus, increased by 50%, as a departure from the provisions of Law No. 100. 153/2017 on the remuneration of personnel from public funds, with the following changes and additions.

Salaries in the Government apparatus are established by years of service. Government sources told HotNews.ro that a debutant MP currently has around 3,500 lei net, while one approaching retirement has around 6,000 lei.

According to the draft regulatory act, AMEPIP employees will have a 50% higher salary.

The agency will be financed by fines and a tariff of 0.1% of the annual income of state-owned companies.

The Agency’s own revenues will consist of a 30% share related to the applied fines and a monitoring fee of up to 0.1% of the total revenues established by the annual financial statements of state-owned enterprises, approved for the previous year, established annually by order of the President of the Agency .

In the explanatory note the GD project states that these revenues are “necessary to ensure the independent work of AMEPIP from budget restrictions, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, to free the state budget from expenses aimed at better functioning of state-owned enterprises.

Due to its mandate, AMEPIP has to provide a number of services to state-owned enterprises, such as:

• participation in procedures for selection of administrative or supervisory boards of state-owned enterprises;
• monitoring and evaluation of performance indicators achieved by state-owned enterprises;
• consultations on corporate management; analyzes and reports on various state-owned enterprises or economic spheres in which state-owned enterprises operate; periodicals in which the portfolio of state-owned enterprises of the state is presented;
• professional training courses intended for employees of state enterprises or state guardianship bodies.

The founding law says so AMEPIP can authorize state enterprises, state guardianship and guardianship bodies and natural persons guilty of dishonestly failing to fulfill performance indicators.

In addition, repeated non-fulfillment of performance indicators by a state-owned enterprise under sanctions may lead to AMEPIP acquiring the status of a guardian state body through a regulatory act approved by the Government.