This benefit is extended to public officials, general secretaries and employees of a minister’s cabinet, the central public administration and other public institutions, and directors in the Government General Secretariat, says the emergency ordinance on the sale of RA-APPS buildings, obtained by MEDIAFAX.
RA-APPS has been authorized by the Government to put 733 properties up for sale, out of the total 1,100 it manages, with starting prices to be determined by experts. The properties are located in central Bucharest.
The sales will take place through open outcry auctions; current officials are allowed to take part. Tenants with debts to RA-APPS, both from the use of the auctioned property and from the use of other properties managed by the authority, will not be permitted to participate.
RA-APPS says the flats rented to individuals and companies are difficult to administer, with respect to setting and recouping joint expenses, while other properties cannot be used by the authority “for reasons of economic efficiency” because of their technical state or location. Therefore, one solution to put an end to the expenses associated with these properties is to sell them, it argues.
The authority is making efforts to recoup overdue rents in the amount of EUR1 million through court action, with more than 400 suits in Bucharest alone.
RA-APPS is the administrator of residences and other buildings used by public institutions, such as the Parliament, Government, Presidency, Constitutional Court and diplomatic missions. Of a total of around RON17 million spent last year on the administration and conservation of these buildings, RON13 million were covered by the authority from its own revenue. This year, the estimated cost to RA-APPS will be RON16.7 million. Over RON5 million is paid every year in property taxes on the buildings and land rented to public institutions and officials.
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