Cabinet passes Decision on Establishment and Composition of the Operational Team of OGP – Action Plan until 2019

At today's 82nd session, chaired by Prime Minister Duško Marković, the Montenegrin Cabinet passed the Decision on the Establishment and Composition of the Operational Team of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) and adopted the Information on further activities of Montenegro in this initiative with the Plan of Action until 2019. Documents are available in Montenegrin.

The Decision sets up the Operational Team, which is headed by the Minister of Public Administration, and whose members are representatives of the Office of the Prime Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Political System, Interior and Foreign Policy, General Secretariat of the Government, secretaries of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Finance, representative of the Chamber of Commerce of Montenegro, as well as five representatives of non-governmental organisations dealing with improving public services, increasing public integrity, more efficient management of public resources, establishing safer communities and increasing corporate social responsibility. Bearing in mind the need to improve coordination in relation to fulfilling obligations defined by membership in the OGP, and above all the adoption of the Annual Action Plan, it was proposed to pass the new decision on the establishment and the composition of the Open Government Partnership’s Operational Team.

The Information stated that, in order to overcome the current situation, the Minister of Public Administration at a meeting with the Delegation of OGP in June 2018 voiced Montenegro’s full commitment to achieving goals of the global initiative which implies improvement of the transparency of public administration, strengthening of the role of civil society and citizens in the creation of public policies, etc. The proposed plan of actions implies the holding of several meetings of the Operational Team with a view to developing the Action Plan and adopting it by the end of this year.

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