There are no official data on the number of vehicles for the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The framework, their number is about 4,000, while the annual expenditure for the fleet maintenance reaches 15 million KM. In the last five years, it shows that last published report of the Audit Office of BiH institutions from December 2023. year, about 34 million KM was spent for the purchase of vehicles. We are reminded, the BiH Council of Ministers have adopted in 2014. Rulebook on the conditions of procurement and use of official vehicles, which in April 2023. replaced by the new rulebook. However, the question remains – did these regulations adopt the expected results? Is the number of official vehicles reduced, adapted prescribed values per classes, and reduced high maintenance costs?
Audit subject
Nine Institutions of BiH are covered by the report, while the case of audit were not public procurement procedures nor the audit examined the purpose of the vehicle, ie. records and travel orders on the use of vehicles.
The audit, based on the data submitted to financial audit and information collected from the sample of institutions, determined that BiH institutions have 3,990 official vehicles – of which 234 belong to the category of standard vehicles, and 3,756 specialized vehicles.
Rulebook from 2014. He precisely determined the vehicle categories according to the function of the user. Thus, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers was entitled to a high-class vehicle, the purchase value of up to 130,000 KM. Ministers in the Council of Ministers, the President of the Court of BiH and the Chief Prosecutor of BiH used vehicles of several middle class up to 100,000 KM. The director, Deputy and Chief Inspector of the OSA, Deputy Institutions had middle-class operators up to 50,000 KM, while Deputy executives, appointed to a minimum classes of up to 40,000 KM. Other employees, to which institution’s executives would approve the use of the Official Car, belonged to lower-class vehicles, with a maximum purchase value of 25,000 KM.
There are no official data on the number of vehicles for the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The framework, their number is about 4,000, while the annual expenditure for the fleet maintenance reaches 15 million KM. In the last five years, it shows that last published report of the Audit Office of BiH institutions from December 2023. year, about 34 million KM was spent for the purchase of vehicles. We are reminded, the BiH Council of Ministers have adopted in 2014. Rulebook on the conditions of procurement and use of official vehicles, which in April 2023. replaced by the new rulebook. However, the question remains – did these regulations adopt the expected results? Is the number of official vehicles reduced, adapted prescribed values per classes, and reduced high maintenance costs?
Audit subject
Nine Institutions of BiH are covered by the report, while the case of audit were not public procurement procedures nor the audit examined the purpose of the vehicle, ie. records and travel orders on the use of vehicles.
The audit, based on the data submitted to financial audit and information collected from the sample of institutions, determined that BiH institutions have 3,990 official vehicles – of which 234 belong to the category of standard vehicles, and 3,756 specialized vehicles.
Rulebook from 2014. He precisely determined the vehicle categories according to the function of the user. Thus, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers was entitled to a high-class vehicle, the purchase value of up to 130,000 KM. Ministers in the Council of Ministers, the President of the Court of BiH and the Chief Prosecutor of BiH used vehicles of several middle class up to 100,000 KM. The director, Deputy and Chief Inspector of the OSA, Deputy Institutions had middle-class operators up to 50,000 KM, while Deputy executives, appointed to a minimum classes of up to 40,000 KM. Other employees, to which institution managers approve the use of the Official Car, belonged to lower-class vehicles, with a maximum purchase value of 25,000 KM, writes Forbes.
