Awarding Price Ceremony for the best Performance in
2009 of Water and Waste Public Companies
Today in Pristina, at the occasion ceremony, the Water and
Waste Regulatory Office (WWRO) presented the Performance
Annual Report
for Water and Waste
Service Providers of 2009 , where
announced
the results of performance evaluation and shared the
following awards:
-
Award
for the best
performance in 2009 in the Water and Sewerage Service
Sectors belongs to the Regional
Water
Company
"Pristina" JSC Pristina
-
Award for the most improved performance for
2008-2009 in the Water and Sewerage Service
Sector belongs to
the Regional
Water and Sewage Company
“BIFURKACIONI” JSC
Ferizaj
-
The more responsible Company to Regulatory requirements
in 2009 is the Water Regional Company “HIDRODRINI" JSC
Peja.
-
Award for best performance in 2009 for the companies
which offer the waste collection services, belongs to
the Regional Waste Company “PASTRIMI” JSC Pristina.
-
Awards for the most improved performance in 2008-2009 ,
which offer the
waste collection services belongs to the Regional
Waste Company “UNITETI” J.S.C
Mitrovica
In this
ceremony, in addition of representatives of licensed public
companies attended the representatives of relevant
institutions of water sectors
in Kosovo as :
·
Laura
Zherka, Adviser of the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Hajredin
Kuēi.
·
Naser
Rugova, Chairman of the Committee for Agriculture, Forestry,
Rural Development and Environment and Spatial Planning.
·
Ramadan Sejdiu, Head of Policy and Monitoring Unit of the
Public Enterprises at the Ministry of Economy and Finance
(MEF),
·
Husnija Beskovic, Adviser of the Minister of the Ministry of
Environment and Spatial Planning (MESP), as well as
representatives of the donors as: European Commission
Liaison Office (ECLO), Swiss Cooperation Office (SCO),
German Bank for Development (KfW), and representatives of
the National Institute of Public Health of Kosova etc.
The
Director of WWRO Mr. Raif Preteni speaking about the
importance of the Annual Performance Report publishment,
emphasized:
“The
report provides an objective and independent annual overview
of performance of Water, Sewage and Waste Companies in
Kosovo, and provides reliable information to all
stakeholders related to the water, sewerage and waste
services, which could be useful even for other
interested stakeholders that are
related to these
services.
Mr.
Preteni referring to the goal of ranking of Waste and Water
Service Public Companies states that in this way should be
made the promotion of
work values and high standards,
and increase the
efficiency of the work
in these
companies, and as a final goal have to increase the service
quality offered to
the customers.
“Unfortunately I have to stress that it is disappointing
fact, that the
performance in most indicators of water and waste companies
has worsened during 2009, compared with 2008.The
reasons for a such
situation might
be complex, and the same will be considered strongly
in the coming months with all stakeholders involved in water
and waste sector” continued Mr.
Preteni.
“In this rail, the Regulator shall promote the primary and secondary legislation, the policies and methodologies of its work, insisting on applying of the best experiences of countries where we intend. In this context we will have support by the consultants of supporting project given to WWRO, respectively IPA project funded by the European Commission Liaison Office.
“I hope
that the donors so far as to provide the necessary support
regarding the improvement of the performance of companies. I
also appreciate continued support offered by donators, and I
am fully confident that the combined efforts of WWRO, MEF
(Policy and Monitoring Unit of the Public Enterprises),
Water Task Force, and staff of RWC will help to raise the
overall performance through our regional companies” stressed
Mr. Preteni, being mentioned that the monitoring of
performance will stimulate competition among companies,
aiming at continuous improvement of offered services.
