Project HESO - 1st Quarter January - March 2004

1st Quarter JANUARY - MARCH 2004 RATING Quality Importance
Measures Ranked by Rating Values
(i.e. Contribution to the Economic and Social Development)
[-300;300] [ -3; 3 ] %
1. Real Estate Register on the Internet (Authorized Access, Paid Services) 101,5 2,06 49,3
2. Amendment to the Civil Code (Two-Year Warranty Periode, Consumer Contracts Introduced) 99,2 1,76 56,5
3. Reduction of the Interest Rates by the National Bank of Slovakia (by 0.5 Percentage Points) 92,2 1,73 53,2
4. Number of Employees' Work Positions at the Ministry of Finance Reduced by 250 (30%), Dissolution of 44 Organizational Divisions (Procedural and Organizational Audit Project Conducted at the Ministry of Finance) 89,0 2,36 37,7
5. Draft Amendment to the Act on Notaries and Notarial Activities (Proposal to Abolish Regulation of Number of Notary Offices) 79,6 2,22 35,8
6. Parliament's Resolution to Apply Transition Periods on Free Movement of Labour in EU Member Countries Starting May 1st, 2004 (Disagreement of the Slovak Parliament with Old EU Members' Protective Measures against New EU Members on Labour Market) 69,3 1,93 35,9
7. Strategy for the Informatisation of Society in Slovakia 62,0 1,16 53,5
8. Block of 12 Measures Adopted in Connection with Looting of Roma Community (Allowances for Public Jobs and Graduate Practice Increased by SKK 500 to SKK 1 500; Repressive and Preventive Fight Against Usury - Possibility of Allowances Payout more Frequently in the Month and Allowances Paid in Kind; Bonus to Organisers of Major Public Job Projects Increased; Grant for Education of the Long-Term Unemployed Person with Individual Disadvantage, Amounting up to SKK 10 000) 51,6 1,13 45,9
9. Airport Companies Act (Transformation of the Slovak Airports Administration Authority into Six Individual Joint Stock Companies Operating Airports, Partial Privatisation of Airport Companies Allowed) 51,4 1,52 33,7
10. Proposal on Appointment of Heads and Directors of Local State Administration Offices by Departmental Minister on the Basis of Selection Procedure Results 44,3 1,23 36,2
11. Governmental Support to Hyundai/Kia Motors for the Construction of the Car Plant near City of Žilina Amounting to SKK 8,83bn (Contract between Hyundai and Slovak Government) 44,2 0,80 55,2
12. New Act on Elections to the National Council of Slovak Republic (Parliament) (Increasing the Weight of Preferential Votes, Voting from Abroad Allowed, Election Deposit of SKK 500 000 Introduced, State Subsidy for Political Parties according to the Poll Increased to 1% of Average Monthly Salary, Election Campaigns in Private Electronic Media Allowed, Pre-Election Moratorium Abolished, One Day Elections, Single Electoral District, No Quotas for Women in Parliament) 42,6 0,73 58,8
13. Proposal to Abolish the Rule Allowing Privatization Incomes to be Used to Finance so-called Significant-Investments (Draft Amendment to the so-called Large-Scale Privatisation Act) 30,7 0,73 41,9
14. Agreement between Slovak Government and European Commission on Excess Steel Production Limits in U.S.Steel Košice (Tax Breaks Cut by USD 70m, Extra Tax Payment to State Budget Amounting USD 32m) 30,6 0,91 33,5
15. Uniform Cigarette Prices Introduced (New Act on Excise Duties on Tobacco Products) 16,5 0,51 32,1
16. Twelve MiG-29 Supersonic Fighter Jets Upgrade 2,6 0,09 28,9
17. Privatization of State Owned Steam-Gas Energy Producer Paroplynový Cyklus Bratislava, a.s. (90% Share for SKK 2bn) -1,9 -0,06 29,8
18. Proposal to Pay out the Lump Sum Grant of SKK 1000 to Pensioners in order to Compensate Impact of the Reforms from the start of 2004 -16,7 -0,44 38,0
19. The Centre for Securities of the Slovak Republic Transformed into Central Securities Depository of the SR (Membership Principle; Two-Level Recordkeeping of Book-Entry Securities; Stock Market Collapse for Several Days) -23,7 -0,63 37,9
20. So-called Parliamentary Indemnity Extended (Disallowing Civil Law Protection Against Members of Slovak Parliament for their Statements Presented in Parliament, Amendmend to the Constitution of the Slovak Republic) -39,2 -1,20 32,7
21. Contracts on Consulation Services for Gas Distributor SPP (Slovak Gas Industry) Amounting to SKK 1.2bn -47,3 -1,63 29,1
         
  RATING of the 1st QUARTER 2004 (passed measures) 41,6    
  RATING of the 4th QUARTER 2003 (passed measures) 64,2    
Measures of EU
1. Keeping Salaries for Members of the European Parliament at the Current Level (Proposal for Single Salary for MPs from all EU Countries, Salaries Funded from EU Budget) 18,2 0,93 19,5
2. Decision of Eurostat on not Recording Contributions Made to the Fully-funded Pillar of the Pension Scheme as Government Revenue (Increase in Public Finance Deficit by Transition Costs of the Pension Reform) 3,5 0,08 44,6
3. Fine on Microsoft Corporation for Alleged Abuse of its Dominant Position on the European Unions' Operating Systems Market Amounting EUR 497m (Microsfot Required to Un-tie Windows Media Player from Operating System Windows, Obligation to Publish the Part of the Windows Source Code) -4,5 -0,15 30,0

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