Excepts the removal and merger of several ministries in the Rama 2 government, a large number of other state institutions will be merged to lower their number and the number of civil servants employed in them.
The two largest changes are in the fields of public procurement and customs and taxation.
A new institution, the Directorate-General for Public Procurements, will be established, which will handle all public procurement procedures for all ministries and other institutions managing public money. This directorate will fall directly under the Prime Ministry, a be most probably led by Ëngjëll Agaçi, Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers. Several media outlets report that Prime Minister Rama encountered the idea of a centralized procurement system in Croatia, and that currently part of the staff of the Prime Ministry is being trained to implement it.
According to Prime Minister Rama, the concentration of all public tenders in the hands of a single director will prevent corruption and maximalize the usage of public funds.
The Directorates-General of Customs and Taxes will be merged into a single National Income Agency (AKA), falling under the Ministry of Finance, Economy, and Labor, headed by Minister Arben Ahmetaj.
The merger is the result of a working group headed by former Deputy Prime Minister Niko Peleshi after the elections, which investigated the reorganization of the state administration.
It is still unknown who will direct this new and powerful institution. Under the Rama 1 government, Customs and Tax directors Elisa Spiropali and Briseida Shehaj both had to leave their posts after corruption scandals and a flow of accusations.
