30 days deadline/ "Trepça" demands the return of the properties it has inside Kosovo

2024-06-17 14:57:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

30 days deadline/ "Trepça" demands the return of the properties

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The company "Trepça" has given a deadline of 30 days for civil society organizations and legal entities to return the properties to this company.

This announcement includes only properties within the territory of Kosovo, but not outside it.

After the disintegration of the former Yugoslav system, many properties not only of private persons, but also of the state of Kosovo, remained outside the borders.

The company "Trepça Sh.A" requested the return of their immovable properties.

The company's management has taken steps to provide proof of ownership and has called for cooperation from all entities.

"The current management is seriously engaged in its revival towards an economic giant.

We are working on the revision of the legal infrastructure which aims at sustainable economic development by opening the way for investments, increasing the value of assets and advancing the technical-technological capital as a prerequisite for the revitalization of Trepça as an enterprise of special importance, vital for the social welfare of workers and the general public interest.

At the same time, together with the Cadastral Agency of Kosovo and the regional cadastral offices, we are providing evidence for the ownership of the "company".

The management of "Trepça Sh.A." addressed a public request to all legal and physical entities, civil society organizations and other entities that, according to them, are currently using the company's immovable properties, to contact the offices within a 30-day period, until July 10 of management in the Industrial Park in Mitrovica.

"All these properties will be returned to the enterprise, in which case we will rent some of them and some will be used for the development of new capacities. In order to achieve these objectives, first of all, the return of the properties to the owner, the Management of "Trepça Sh.A." has decided to turn to public opinion with a request".

However, the return of these properties does not seem to be easy.

"Its assets were distributed during Yugoslavia and were mainly distributed in Montenegro and Serbia. They are legal problems and there are other problems that we are not clear about either in principle, politically or economically. There are dozens of such but each of them has a separate legal history as Yugoslavia has gone through several stages and there are legal problems," said Ferat Shala, former director of the company "Trepça".

There are also a total of 169 properties that Kosovo has left outside its territory.

Of them, 104 are only within the territory of Serbia.

From the Kosovo Privatization Agency, they have shown that some of the states, together with the Government of Kosovo, have started discussions, but not with Serbia.

"The Republic of Kosovo has established diplomatic relations with most of the neighboring countries from the former Yugoslavia, and opportunities have been created to resolve the problems with Kosovo's assets located in the territory of these countries, except with Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina".

With one state, the Ministry of Justice as a representative from Kosovo, had started legal procedures, but still nothing concrete.

"Regarding your questions, we inform you that the State Bar is representing the Republic of Kosovo in the case where the party - the citizen of Montenegro, has sued the Republic of Kosovo for the termination of the contract with which Kosovo had purchased a property - about 300m². The case is under review by the court in Kotor. In the other case, the Republic of Kosovo has sued Montenegro for the compensation of the property and the alienation of the property which the former resort "Ganimete Tërbeshi" had in permanent use. The matter has been registered in the court, but no session has been scheduled yet".

Trepça is managed by the Government of Kosovo and the public enterprises that operated in the period of former Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslavia, which remained in other countries, then in this case it is the Ministry of Justice that must initiate steps for the return of state properties.

According to the AKP, in Bosnia and Herzegovina there are 17.10% of Kosovo properties, in Croatia 5.3%, Montenegro 35.21%, Macedonia 7.4%, Serbia 104.62%, Slovenia 1.1% ./ Monitor