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Eight years since NIS sale and Serbia still has not determined what was sold

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According to Insajder.net survey, Serbian Government and competent authorities still have not determined a detailed list of assets that state representatives, along with a majority share of the national oil company, sold to Russian Gazprom Neft in 2008. Instead, for the past eight years the Government has transferred hundreds of facilities to NIS ownership by the means of its conclusions.

According to Sale and Purchase Agreement of NIS, the Government was obliged to submit Gazprom Neft a detailed list of assets of the oil industry. Insider asked for that list for the first time in 2013 while working on the series “Power Agreement”. Instead of the mentioned list, we got nearly 40 Government conclusions which gradually determined what wasactually sold by the Sale and Purchase Agreement of the national oil company.

In July this year, we asked again from the Government for thelist of assets, but this time too, we only obtained Government conclusions. With a total of 43 conclusions, the first of which was adopted in December 2009, the state has transferred around 3000 facilities to NIS ownership.

Government led by Mirko Cvetkovic reached 25 conclusions from 2009 to April 2012. The Government led by Ivica Daciccontinued this practice and reached a total of 14 conclusions. The previous government, led by Aleksandar Vucic, reached four conclusions.

The current Government has not reached any conclusion so far on the transfer of property to the ownership of NIS.
The last conclusion was related to the amendment of the Conclusion from 2011, while, for example, 35 different objects mainly owned by Serbia were transferred to NIS ownership by the penultimate Conclusion from December 2014 and NIS had a right to use them. Among the transferred facilities were gas stations, oil processing plants, ancillary buildings, one studio apartment in Vracar, whose bearer of public property rights was Jugopetrol.

All this shows that in 2008, when Government signed Sale and Purchase Agreement of NIS, representatives of Serbian Government were not really aware of what was being sold with the national oil company.

The Agreement was signed by the Government of Democratic Party and Democratic Party of Serbia, led by Vojislav Kostunica. The agreement with Russia, which included the sale agreement of a majority share of NIS, was supported byformer president Boris Tadic. The agreement was also endorsed by almost all parliamentary parties, including the former Members of Parliament of SNS and SPS.
Nice and tidy.

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