Only two thirds of the central public authorities provide on their websites information about projects, plans and financial reports, shows a study carried out by the Journalistic Investigations Center and the Public Policy Institute. The monitoring covered 42 institutions of the central public administration, IPN reports.
Cornelia Cozonac, who is one of the study authors, said that the information about the fulfillment of the budget is mainly incomplete on the websites of two thirds of the central institutions (28 authorities), which have sections about the institution’s budget. Thus, the people who want to follow the work of the institution cannot do it as they cannot form a general picture.
No institution updates the information about their incomes and spending in real time. Some of the institutions provide new information once in a month or more seldom and this information is summary. At the beginning of this year, ten public institutions didn’t have sections about the institution’s budget, with information about budget planning reports and expenditure, on their websites.
The authors of the study recommend the State Chancellery and the e_Government Center to demand that the public institutions publish financial reports, intensify control over the observance of the legal provisions concerning decisional transparency and institute penalties for the local public authorities that do not post reports on budget spending on their websites.
