Roads in Serbia “without control” exempted from tolls
Roads of Serbia apply their own criteria for exemption from toll payment, given that it was not prescribed by the relevant ministry.
In this way, as determined by the state auditors, in 2022 alone, they exempted them from paying tolls in the amount of approximately 330 million dinars.
“The collection of fees for the use of public goods also provides for the exemption of certain users from paying tolls, the competent ministry did not adopt criteria for exempting payments, which led to the company applying its own criteria, and only in 2022 on that basis exempted from paying tolls in the amount of approximately 330 million dinars”, stated the State Audit Institution in the latest report.
Namely, the SAI conducted an audit of the expediency of the business “Management of the information system of JP Putevi Srbije” in the period from January 2024 to June 2024. The audit covered three IT areas and processes: the area of application controls in the toll collection system itself, ensuring business continuity and ensuring information security.
Inefficient control system
The auditors concluded that the Roads of Serbia did not establish an effective internal control system for the release of toll payments.
“The exchange of data between the toll collection system and the financial information system is performed manually and the review of event records (logs) is not performed periodically, which is why there is a risk that the goals and objectives of the business will not be achieved in an efficient and proper manner, and may cause consequences for business results, by reducing business income and making wrong business decisions”, stated the auditors.
Due to the failure to adopt strategic documents, without which it is not possible to determine priorities and track costs, there is a risk that in the event of adverse events there will be an inefficient response, that the system will be unavailable for a long time, that more data than planned will be lost and thus endanger the business results primarily by reducing the planned revenues, and consequently unplanned expenditures for system recovery, the SAI pointed out.
Source: N1
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