The NGO representatives presented to the MPs of the MP Group of Albanian Parties (FORCA, AA), HGI and LPCG objections to the procedure of proposing candidates for the RTCG Council membership. They pointed out the essential failure in the process of harmonisation of methods, i.e. criteria for assessment of validity of submitted documentation. Namely, delivering a certificate on submission of Financial Statement is not obligatory for the NGOs in this procedure, because the Law on Public Broadcasting Services of Montenegro (Official Gazette of Montenegro 79/08) in Article 29 prescribes the obligation of submitting performance reports and financial statements for the previous three years. The second reason why this criterion is illegal, as they say, is that Article 6 of the Law on Accounting and Auditing (from 2005, 2008 and 2011) does not contain any provision relating to certificate by the Tax Administration, and therefore – not even as an integral part of a financial statement. Article 2 of the Law on Accounting and Auditing (Official Gazette of Montenegro 69/05) defines meaning of certain expressions that explain the legal term “financial statement”, which represents a set of “financial statements” meaning “balance sheet and income statement”.

While submitting documentation for candidacy, on 10 March 2014, they informed the Working Group on amendments to the Law on Accounting and Auditing (Official Gazette of Montenegro 32/11, Article 1) establishing an obligation of submitting annual financial statements only for legal persons engaged in business activities. Based on these amendments, NGOs not engaged in business activities are not obliged to submit financial statements to Tax Administration. 

Due to the all above mentioned, they request that the Draft list of candidates for the RTCG Council membership should be invalidated.

With regard to the said issue, the MPs of the MP Group of Albanian Parties (FORCA, AA), HGI and LPCG will take a joint position in consultations.