Author: Open Data Albania

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Open Data Albania has investigated the distribution of the public contracts signed between the Municipalities and Business Companies for July 2015 – 31 January 2017, ranking them by value of contracts and gender of the company owner. Such investigation was part of the ‘Monitoring Municipality Clients in Public Contracts’ Project, supported by LevizAlbania. The investigation covered public procurement procedures that were announced and finalized from…

Open Data Albania is investigating into business companies operating as Institutions of Higher Education or Non-Public Universities. The data are extracted from the database of the National Registration Centre. Such institutions operate and are regulated based on Law No. 80/2015 On higher education and scientific research in the Institutions of Higher Education in the Republic of Albania. The institutions of higher education are organized into…

Open Data Albania ranks the High Court Judges by the incomes they have declared for 2015. Judges in the Republic of Albania are required by law to declare their wealth and conflicts of interest. Therefore, at the beginning of each year, they must submit a declaration on their incomes, and on any increase or decrease of their wealth over the last twelve months. ODA’s investigation…

Expenses of the budget during 2014 was 95.2 percent or 8.19 billion lower than plan. Total actual expenditure was 437.32 billion while the initial plan was 456.40 billion year. Source: Initial Budget 2014 data obtained from the Ministry of Finance:http://www.financa.gov.al/al/raportime/buxheti/buxheti-ne-vite/buxheti-2014, downloaded 10.28.2015Details of the 2014 budget Actual expenditures were obtained from the Ministry of Finance: http://www.financa.gov.al/files/userfiles/Thesari/Treguesit_Fiskal_sipas_Buxhetit_te_Konsoliduar/treguesit_fiskal_per_2014/12_m_2014_paraprake.pdf, shkarkuar më 2/11/2015Comments and processing: ODA Source: Initial Budget…

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