Public enterprises in Kosovo and their challenges in the future

Abstract

Public enterprises in Kosovo have this form of organization from 2009, even
though most of them have existed earlier and have performed their activity as
socially owned enterprises. We can distinguish four important periods that
influenced their development: the period of establishment and operation in an
economy with a socially owned enterprises, the period of 1990-1999 characterized
by galloping inflation and destruction of assets with minimal utilization of capacity,
the period of 2000-2007 or the administration of public enterprises by former
Kosovo Trust Agency ( KTA ), their transformation into public enterprises, and the
period from 2008 or after the implementation of the Law on public enterprises in
Kosovo ( Law no. 03/L-087 ). Public enterprises in Kosovo nowadays are facing
numerous challenges including: changing the form of government, introduction of
public-private partnership, monopoly, regulation or free formation of prices,
privatization or changes in their organizational form, and saving the independent
status from the political influence. Almost all public enterprises in Kosovo are
having difficulties with revenues which will ensure the development of their
activity. Therefore, based on the current situation, public enterprises in Kosovo
must prepare to face these challenges and have to find solutions that will help the
managements of the public enterprises to meet the minimal requirements which
will directly increase the level of services to citizens.