Author: Griselda Rruci

Open Data Albania is investigating about the number and categories of complaints for discrimination submitted to the Commissioner for Protection from Discrimination, CPD. Article 18 of the Constitution of the Republic of Albania provides for that no one may be unjustly discriminated against for reasons such as gender, race, religion, ethnicity, language, political, religious, or philosophical beliefs, economic condition, education, social status, or ancestry. In…

Open Data Albania is investigating on the progress of Internet use in 2010-2014. According to the Authority of Electronic and Postal Communications, AEPC, there have been changes over the years both in the number of subscribers with broadband access and in the means used to access the Internet as well as the volume of data transmitted. In 2014, AEPC reported a total of 1,637,994 subscribers…

Open Data Albania is investigating data provided on fixed and mobile telephony during 2004-2014. According to the Postal and Electronic Communications Authority, PECA, changes were introduced throughout  these recent years both concerning the number of active users of this means of communication as well as the income generated by the telephone operators. In 2014, PECA reports about 3,359,654 active mobile phone users, out of whom…

Open Data Albania is investigating the financial liabilities that the distribution operators of audiovisual media have toward AMA and unauthorized transmissions in 2014. During this year, financial liabilities toward AMA amounted to ALL 271 296 702. Out of this amount, ALL 97,820,970 are liabilities for licenses accumulated over the years, ALL 4,334,400 are fees for radio television services and ALL 169,141,332 for penalties. Source: http://ama.gov.al/preview/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/RAPORTI-VEJTOR-AMA-2014.pdfComments…

Open Data Albania is investigating the report released from Energy Regulatory Authority ERE on the amount of electricity generated in 2014. The public sector has produced an amount of 3,406,226 MWh of electricity and the private sector an amount of 318,204 MWh. This indicates that the public electricity output runs at 72% of the total electricity output during this year. Source: http://www.ere.gov.al/mat.php?idr=184&idm=190&lang=1Comments and analyses: ODA…

Open Data Albania is investigating for those taxpayers, who have benefited from penalties forgiveness pursuant to Law 39/2014 “For forgiveness of administrative penalties in the form of fines imposed on the basis of tax audits and verifications, carried out for March 1 to August 31 2013  period “. The law provides for the forgiveness of penalties imposed as part of the tax dues by the…

Open Data Albania is updating data about Foreign Direct Investments FDIs in Kosova by country of origin. Foreign Direct Investments are an important indicator of capital flows and economic development. In 2014, the total of Foreign Direct Investments was EUR 151.2 million marking a downward trend compared with the previous year when these investments ran at EUR 259.02 million. Switzerland was the country of origin…

Open Data Albania is updating data on the labor market in the banking system, namely the number of persons employed in commercial banks by 2014. The data obtained from the Albanian Association of Banks help us in analyzing the pace of growth or contraction of the labor market in this sector and the quality of customer service whether individuals or business. In 2014, 6,825 people…

Open Data Albania is updating data on financial entities licensed by the Central Bank of Kosovo in 2014. Financial entities that are licensed by this bank are Commercial Banks, Pension Funds, Insurance Companies, Microfinance Institutions and also Financial Assistants, which include Non-bank Financial Institutions, Money Transfer Offices, Insurance Intermediaries and Currency Exchange Offices. Commercial banks are those banks that accept cash deposits or other repayable…

Open Data Albania is carrying out investigations in terms of entities included in the category of large taxpayers under bankruptcy and their liabilities to the banking system. According to tax legislation, the tax administration submits its claim to the court to initiate bankruptcy proceedings if the taxpayer has entered the passive status in NRC since two years ago, has tax liabilities filed as uncollectable, has…

Open Data Albania has researched regarding taxpaying entities, the properties of which in 31 August 2015 resulted as frozen due to outstanding tax liabilities. Based on the taxation law, all taxpayers who do not pay taxes on time are considered as subject of the tax debt. Tax Administration decides on taking insurance measures on assets until liabilities are paid and starting of procedures for their…

Open Data Albania is researching for entities under bankruptcy in the Republic of Albania. According to legislation on taxes, the tax administration has required from the court to initiate bankruptcy proceedings in the event the taxpayer has passed into the passive status in the NRC since two years ago, has tax liabilities declared as uncollectable, has lost its own equity for at least three consecutive…

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Open Data Albania has updated data on the retail price of oil in our country and in the world for 2014. In the period from 1998 to 2014, the price of oil increased by only 0.1 dollar per liter every two years all over the world. Oil in our country was sold for USD 0.43 per liter in 1998, ie about four times less than…

Open Data Albania is updating data on gender ratio in the administration, or ownership of an active economic unit in 2013-2014. In this case, we mean any entity that performs an economic activity, regardless of its legal form, excluding public administration, nonprofit organizations and international organizations. According to data extracted from data base of the Institute of Statistics in the Enterprises Register section, the gender…