Prime Minister Edi Rama today gave an overview of the negotiations with the European Union, while emphasizing that the red light should be switched to the green light when it comes to Public Procurement. He said that the year 2027 should find Albania with completed facilities.
"What is being talked about in public is very much reduced to things that are either very basic or completely unrelated to the process. Of course, the process has a lot of burden and the negotiation team is really to be congratulated."
What stands out to me is the necessity to move from the red light to the green light in public procurement, where we have made great progress but we are not yet in the framework of good progress that implies the fulfillment of this aspect within the framework of conditions. I bring it to your attention because it is crucial that the work started for further modernization with AI for public procurement must continue. 2027 should find us with the objective achieved.
"Financial control, there too progress is limited. The challenge of challenges is food safety and consumer protection as a whole," he said.
Meanwhile, he also spoke about the inspection reform, stating that it must continue and that political leadership from all ministries is key, "in the sense of protecting the reform from party interference and political intrigue."
"The inspection reform must continue and the political direction of the reform by all ministries is key in the sense of protecting the reform from party interference and political factions. What has started with the NQF must be extended to all other inspectorates to guarantee qualitative or potentially qualitative human resources, young men and women who are to be put at the service of the challenges but who also have the opportunity to benefit from training, ongoing education in that process, so that the level of inspection increases significantly because it is key to guarantee the reforms that are being made in these areas because at the end of the day, the issue goes to implementation and implementation requires continuous monitoring. A few weeks ago, the EU institutions carried out an inspection regarding the points where living things are treated, related to livestock, which is one of the most delicate components of the EU membership process and has been so for the countries that have entered before us. The inspections have left several tasks, the completion of which takes progress forward and makes it closer "fulfilling the conditions in this field, which requires very systematic and competent monitoring and control by our institutions. I brought it up as an example to say why it is necessary today to accompany this process with a process of increasing the quality of inspection," he said.
