The parliamentary committee of inquiry into TAP today concludes its work and approves the final version of the preliminary report presented by PS deputy Ana Paula Bernardo. The document will then be sent to plenary, where it will be discussed on 19. The law on parliamentary investigations explicitly states that “the report will not be voted on in plenary”. The parties will be able to present explanations of vote – in which the opposition will record its own conclusions, beyond what the PS majority imposes today.
The document, as is known, is free of criticism of the administration, especially in the conclusions. However, in the “recommendations” this is no longer entirely the case. By proposing new procedures in the board vis-à-vis listed companies, the PS suggests what is currently not being done.
For example, it talks about the need to “ensure the improvement of the link between financial and sectoral supervision, ensure that the division and linkage of responsibilities is clear and designed to serve the public interest” – which in the case of TAP means that the “financial supervision” as belonging to the Ministry of Finance and “sectoral supervision” as belonging to the Ministry of Infrastructure.
The Rapporteur also recommends the need to “improve document classification processes (and related document management processes) to ensure that documentation is appropriately classified, processed within government offices and between them and appropriately classified companies and, where appropriate, application, with the required document security safeguards”. It also suggests to the executive that “channels for institutional relations between government and public sector companies should be strengthened so that responsibilities are fulfilled within the stipulated time”.
Law on parliamentary investigations says that conclusions are voted on in committee and not in plenary. Parties may make explanations of vote.
The government will also be proposed to carry out a “global assessment” of the “regulatory framework” of state corporate life, to avoid “over-regulation, inapplicable laws and bureaucratic procedures that hinder agility in the interaction between government and business or create entropy in the company’s operational dynamics”. And it is also necessary to “improve accountability to society in terms of the business sector of the state by making available online and in an accessible manner all updated information that not only relates to the results achieved by companies, but also on the fulfillment of management obligations by the shareholder state and by the administrations of the companies”.
PS, BE, PCP and Chega will present several amendments to the conclusions and recommendations of the preliminary report today – and the socialist ones are the only ones that have received approval from the start.
To “ensure the effective control of financial legality” in the public corporate sector (SPE), the Socialists will recommend that public managers be required, at the start of their duties, to have the “reporting obligation” of “all amounts received by title of indemnification for termination of directorship or management positions in other entities under the” of the Statute of the Public Manager [coisa que Alexandra Reis não terá feito quando saiu da TAP com meio milhão, ingressando a seguir na NAV sem devolver a indemnização].
The PS also wants to impose “an obligation on public companies to report to a public body all amounts paid as compensation for termination of board positions”.
Source: DN
