The Quick Response is a service provided by NALAS for quick response to members’ requests. This service is available to all
NALAS members and specializes in ad-hoc information gathering and analysis. The service is especially useful to member associations
dealing with important policy issues or otherwise negotiating with their respective central governments.
To apply for a Quick Response, please send your request to info@nalas.eu. Your request should describe what are your needs, how you intend to use the result from the service and what are the deadlines by when you need the support.
Delimitation of Competences in Water Supply and Waste Management
The Association of Kosovo Municipalities would like to know whether the Water supply and Waste management is a Municipal/Local or Central Level’s responsibility (competence).
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Management of Bus Stations
The Association of Kosovo Municipalities would like to know how the bus station is managed in other countries. More specifically, AKM is interested to know if the Bus Station is managed by the Municipal or by Central level.
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Taxation of the Telecommunication and Electro-Energetic Properties
The Union of Municipalities of Montenegro was involved in the development of a legal act for regulation of Property Tax and was interested to learn about the solutions implemented in NALAS countries regarding the taxation of the telecommunication and electro-energetic properties.
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Social Services - Competency, Functioning and Funding
The Association of Kosovo Municipalities was interested to find out who is competent for Social Services in NALAS member countries - the local or central government. AKM also was interested to gather information on how social services are functioning, how they are financed and finally if there is a real decentralization of Social Services in the countries from the region.
AKM needed this information to organize a Regional Conference on Social Services and they needed the respective information to see which of the local authorities of the region manage themselves the social services, in order to invite that in the conference and to exchange experiences.
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Normative, legislative acts on local borrowing and information on personal income tax
CALM used the service to collect laws, national regulations or any kind of normative and/or legislative acts providing information on local borrowing and to learn how is the personal income tax collected in NALAS countries country: whether it is collected at the place (village, town, city) where employees work or at the place (village, town, city) where they live, in case these two places are different. CALM needed the samples of normative acts and excerpt from the region to elaborate a new draft law on local borrowing and to propose changes to the law on local public finance. As it concerns the request on procedure of the collection of the personal income tax, it was used by CALM to elaborate policy arguments to promote a reform in this field. The Parliament of the Republic of Moldova initiated a reform according to which the personal income tax should be collected in the budget of the municipality where the employee has its residence, not at his working place (in the case this two are different). This reform is supported by CALM, but the Ministry of Finance is against, saying that this will complicate the fiscal administration of this tax.
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Additional documents (.zip)
Translation of the programming documents for the use of the EU Structural Funds
The Association of Cities of the Republic of Croatia used the NALAS Quick response service to learn how the Slovenian Association solved the problem of translation of the programming documents for the use of the EU Structural Funds from English to Slovenian in order to ease and speed up the activities related to the use of these funds by the municipalities.
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Participatory Budgeting practices and policies
In cooperation with NALAS Knowledge Managers, the Secretariat conducted a survey on the roles of the LGA’s in SEE in promoting Participatory Budgeting practices and policies. You can read the findings in the following document.
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