Politicians’ families occupy state institutions: Husbands and children of DP-SP Members of Parliament, positions in ministries and diractorate offices
Stock of FIDs by country of origin 2012 – 2017
Open Data Albania has updated its data about the stock of Foreign Direct Investments (FIDs) in the Albanian economy based on the information published by the Bank of Albania. The stock of FIDs represents the level of Direct Investments at a certain time. In other words, the stock of FIDs represents the value of assets owned by foreigners in the Albanian economy in the form…
Private Consumption of the Economy 2009-2015
The following analysis from Open Data Albania is focused on the change in Private Consumption in the Albanian economy for the 2009-2015 period, and its dynamics in the first quarter of 2015. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of an economy can be measured in different ways. One of these is the Expense Method. The estimation of the GDP through this method includes the 4 main…
Veliaj Pays Albtelekom, Albtelekom Pays His Brother
Yet, the Tirana mayor’s true motto seems to be “those who steal and abuse power also want to have fun.” Erion Veliaj has begun organizing several concerts in Tirana to celebrate the three-year anniversary of coming to power as mayor of Tirana. In these three years, his municipality has paid millions of euros for concerts and entertainment with little public interest, while Veliaj swears that…
Socialist Party Incomes and Expenditures for its 2017 Electoral Campaign
Open Data Albania is investigating into the incomes and expenditures of the Socialist Party for its 2017 electoral campaign. The information is extracted from the audit report prepared by independent experts. The final audit report provides well-organized and comprehensive information about the party incomes and expenditures. Such reports are compiled by members of the Institute of Certified Accountants in compliance with the requirements of the…
Socialist Movement for Integration, Incomes and Expenditures for the 2017 Electoral Campaign
Open Data Albania is investigating into the incomes and expenditures of the Socialist Movement for Integration for its electoral campaign of 2017 elections. The data provided here are extracted from the party’s audit reports prepared by independent certified accountants, who are registered with the Institute of Certified Accountants. Such audit reports are compiled in compliance with the Electoral Code of the Republic of Albania, i.e.…
Concessionary agreements supported by the state budget for 2018
Open Data Albania is investigating into the concessionary contracts and public-private partnerships (PPP) supported directly by the state budget. According to the Budget Report for 2018 by the Ministry of Finances and Economy, there are eight concessionary contracts or PPPs financed by the state budget. The report mentions also three more contracts to be signed during the same year that will be directly financed by…
Bank of Albania, Profit Transferred to State Budget 2015-2016
Open Data Albania is updating the data relating to the Bank of Albania profit transferred to the state budget. Bank of Albania is the central bank of our country and operates under the provisions of Law no. 8269, dated 23.12.1997. It is independent of any other power in achieving the main objective of its activity. Bank of Albania’s capital consists of statutory fund, and the…
Comparative review of the VAT exemption – Albania, the Region, and the EU member states
Open Data Albania is investigating into the value of exemption from VAT in Albania, the region, and EU countries. Article 117 of the Law on the Value Added Tax provides that taxable persons, who are residents in Albania, and whose annual turnover is under the minimum threshold required for VAT, are subject to the small business regime, benefitting an exemption from the selling VAT for…
Number of criminal offenders punished by life imprisonment and other types of harsh sentences during January 2013-January 2017
Open Data Albania discloses the number of criminal offenders sent to Institutions for the Execution of Criminal Sentences by the level of punishment during January 2013-January 2017. The analysis includes four categories of sentences: life imprisonment, imprisonment from 20 to 35 years, imprisonment from 15 to 20 years, and imprisonment for less than 15 years. The data are based on the Statistics of the General…
Criminal offenders serving their sentence in prison and pre-detainees under security measures during January 2013-January 2017
Open Data Albania is investigating the number of prisoners in the Institutions for the Execution of Criminal Decisions (IECD) and pre-detainees under security measures in Pre-detention Facilities in the Republic of Albania. The data are based on the Statistics of the General Directorate of Prisons, and are processed, commented, and analyzed by ODA. The analysis is made by comparing the data from January 2013, 2014,…
Annual declaration of assets by District Chief Prosecutors by source for 2015
Open Data Albania ranks District Chief Prosecutors by value of their incomes as declared for 2015. District Chief Prosecutors are required by law to declare their assets and conflicts of interest. At the beginning of each year, they must submit a declaration, where they reflect every increase or decrease of their incomes and assets for the last twelve months. Open Data Albania (ODA) lists their…
Ranking of 30 Economic Operators by value of contracts signed with Municipalities during July 2015 – January 2017
The Albanian Institute of Science (AIS), an organization that promotes Open Data for Albania, has investigated the values of the contracts signed by economic operators with local government units though procedures of public procurement for the period July 2015 – 31 January 2017. The beginning of the investigation period represents the time of new municipalities emerging from the latest territorial and administrative division of the…
Women-Owned Companies contracted by Local Government by structure of organization for July 2015 – 30 January 2017
Open Data Albania has investigated into business companies, which have been awarded public contracts by local government units from July 2015 until 30 January 2017. The investigation was conducted as part of the ‘Monitoring Municipality Clients in Public Contracts’ Project, supported by LevizAlbania. The investigation covers public procurement procedures, which were announced and finalized from July 2015 until 20 January 2017. July 2015 mars the…
Ranking of Municipalities by Value of Public Contracts awarded to Women-Owned Economic Operators
Open Data Albania is investigating into the economic operators owned by women, which have signed contracts with the local government units worth considerable amount of money. The investigation is done as part of the ‘Monitoring Municipality Clients in Public Contracts’ Project, supported by LevizAlbania. The investigation covers public procurement procedures announced and finalized from July 2015 until 20 January 2017. July 2015 is when the…