Coordinator for public notification and consultation

Coordinator - Valbona Pistja

Postal address: [email protected]
Working hours: 08:00-16:00

Competencies
The Coordinator of Public Notification and Consultation is responsible for the coordination and general administration of the work to guarantee the right to public notification and consultation, provided for by Law No. 146/2014 “On Public Notification and Consultation”

a) by email;

b) by public notice, which is displayed on the premises of the initiating public body;

c) with an announcement in the national, regional or local audiovisual media;

ç) with publication in local newspapers or in the two most widely read newspapers at the national level.

Receiving comments and recommendations in the public consultation process is carried out in one of the forms mentioned above, as well as in certain cases in verbal and/or written form and recorded in the minutes of public meetings.

Preliminary announcements

The public body, in special cases, may collect information and/or preliminary opinions from interest groups before initiating the process of drafting the relevant act.
In the initial stages, the public body, when it deems it necessary, publishes in one of the forms provided for in Article 11 a prior notice of the act it will draft in order to obtain information from interested parties.
Any interested party may respond to the prior notice within the deadlines provided for in this law, by submitting comments and recommendations.

Information that needs to be provided

Interested parties to be consulted are provided with the necessary information to enable them to contribute in the most effective way possible to the process of preparing the draft act electronically and/or by post.
In addition to the relevant documents, depending on the complexity, volume and other characteristics of the draft act, explanations are provided on the purpose, the problems to be addressed, the general ideas, the main changes and/or possible alternatives and, to the extent possible, studies or analyses that have been carried out for the drafting of the draft act.

Extension and repetition of the consultation phase
The public body may extend the deadline for submitting comments or may repeat the phase of receiving comments and recommendations in cases where:

a)the public body is not satisfied with the quality of the comments received;

b) The comments and recommendations provided raised important new issues that were not part of the initial consultation.

Notice of public meetings
During the consultation period, given the importance of the draft act and the high public interest, the public body may organize public meetings, where interested parties present their opinions and data on the draft act to be drafted.

Participation in public meetings

Consultation at public meetings is open.
The notification for the organization of public meetings is made according to the notification methods provided for in Article 11 of this law.

Minutes and recordings of public meetings may be made public upon request, in accordance with applicable legislation on the right to information on official documents.

Limitations
The provisions of this law do not apply during the decision-making process related to:

a) national security issues, to the extent that they constitute a state secret, according to the law on information classified as "state secret";
b) international relations and bilateral and multilateral agreements;
c) individual administrative acts and administrative acts of a normative character, unless otherwise provided for by a special law;
ç) normative acts, with the force of law, approved by the Council of Ministers;
d) civil emergency;
dh) other exceptional issues provided for by law.

Law No. 146/2014 “On Public Notification and Consultation”