Second ZF proposal, partially adopted: budgets and investments published by local institutions

The Romanian Government is putting another ZF proposal into practice, forcing local public institutions to publish their budgets, quarterly budget execution and investments. On May 6 ZF threw down the gauntlet by proposing two solutions to make local and central administration more transparent. The first called for public institutions to be forced to publish each employee’s name and surname, position, and monthly income on the website. Later President Traian B`sescu made the proposal publicly, and at the end of May public institutions started to publish their employees’ monthly incomes (without giving their names).

ZF’s second proposal was for state institutions to put together annual activity reports in which to include all acquisitions up to the last penny. On June 20 Traian B`sescu asked public institutions to publish all spending on their websites, and at the end of last week the Government put together a draft forcing local public authorities to publish their annual budgets on their websites, annexes included, as well as quarterly budget execution, past due payments, and their public investment programme.