A Big Thumbs Up for Ilir Meta
The legal submission that the Office of the President has made to the return of the law on metrology is one of the best legal arguments I have seen produced by any state offices. Most likely the majority will overturn the decree in the session and pass the law again, but the lawyers of the Presidency have publicly exposed all the devilish tricks of a law, which is corrupt to perversion.
The truth is that the new law on metrology, de facto opens the way to dozens of other secret concessions, in flagrant violation of the Constitution and bypassing the law of concessions. Put it simply, if this law is approved, from tomorrow any metrological service can be provided by concession without competition, without obeying the law of concessions, but simply and only with the signature of the general director of metrology.
Simply said, if this law is approved, from tomorrow we can have a concession for the supervision of gas cylinders, a concession for shop counters, bread scales and everything else, only with the signature of the directors of the inspectorates. This is a dangerous law.
But preparing the way for the massively concede meteorological services is not the only evil purpose of the law. Its other goal is to bring to justice tracks the great and flagrant illegality that the government committed two years ago. It is about the concession of fuel pumps.
Pump control at gas stations is currently the only metrological service granted on concession to the private sector. But this concession has a big legal flaw. The existing law on metrology in articles 8 and 40 explicitly states that the control service of measuring instruments is performed exclusively by the Directorate of Metrology and can be transferred to the private sector only if this directorate does not have the means.
Through the new law the government seeks to amnesty itself from breaking the law, but not only that. In Parliament, a group of majority MPs, led by Ilir Beqja, proposed and approved another diabolical article. To give the right to the private sector to increase the frequency of inspections without a ceiling and consequently the bill that Albanian citizens have to pay at the final price of fuel.
This is a law made simply and only for private interests. When I publicly denounced this a few weeks ago, Mr. Beqja replied in distance, alluding that I had been paid by the oil companies. In fact, the oil companies are most interested in the law being passed because this way they can bargain with the concessionaire at the expense of the citizens, as the law totally eliminates state control. Today I have to anticipate another possible charge. I was not paid by the President. But again I want to say a big thumbs up for Ilir Meta.