Upon decision no. 801, dated 20.12.2021, “On an amendment to the Council of Ministers decision no. 929/2010, “On the creation and use of the special fund”, the Council of Ministers decided that the Appeal Chamber employees may receive a bonus that does not exceed the monthly salary level. According to this decision, the financial effect of this remuneration must be covered by the fund that the Chamber had as balance for the staff salaries, according to the 2021 budget.
Be kindly informed that the Appeal Chamber, with the annual budget law for 2021, has been approved a fund for staff salaries less than its needs to pay its employees according to the administrative structure adopted by the Albanian Parliament, such an issue resolved only in October this year.
Under these circumstances, it was impossible that the fund intended for the AC staff salaries had any surpluses, which allowed the possibility of remuneration of judges and all its employees. The relevant executive bodies have been informed by the treasury system, as well as officially by the Appeal Chamber about the situation of the staff salary fund in December 2021. The only surplus in this fund, at the time of approval of the aforementioned decision, was in the amount of ALL 465,000, consequently, without any significant real effect for the AC employees.
Given that this unused fund is insufficient to enable the rewarding of all AC employees, the Meeting of Judges decided to provide no remuneration under this decision of the Council of Ministers to the judges and advisors of the Legal Service Unit. The amount of ALL 465,000 will be divided among the administrative employees of the Appeal Chamber, to the gross amount of ALL 25,833 each.