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Audit of the NTA in a municipality of the Prefecture of Thessaloniki, regarding the legality of the operation of a health shop in a central municipal park
Following a complaint, an inspector of the NTA. carried out an inspection at the competent services and bodies of a municipality of the Prefecture of Thessaloniki, concerning the legality of the actions of the competent bodies and services of the municipality with regard to the regularization of the arbitrary construction of a specific shop of sanitary interest, within the common area of a central municipal park, classified as a Square.
In particular, during the audit it was found that a former Deputy Mayor of the Municipality issued unauthorizedly in the year 2023 a document to the Ministry of Environment and Energy and the Administrative Court of Appeal of Thessaloniki, in which the case of the settlement of the arbitrary constructions of the said shop, which had been carried out by its owner, was pending for adjudication, by which the abovementioned Deputy Mayor unilaterally provided, on behalf of the Municipality, consent to the inclusion of the unauthorised constructions in question in the favourable provisions on unauthorised constructions, so that the shop could continue to operate in its then current form.
However, the above document was issued unlawfully by the former Deputy Mayor as he had no competence on urban planning matters (the building services have competence), whereas a relevant decision should have been issued by the municipal council of the municipality.
Following the above findings, the audit report was forwarded:
- To the Secretary of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia-Thrace for the disciplinary control of the former Deputy Mayor and current Municipal Councillor.
- To the competent Public Prosecutor's Office for the criminal evaluation of the statements made in it.
Finally, the Audit Report includes specific proposals and recommendations to the audited entity, regarding, inter alia, the immediate undertaking of all necessary actions: (a) for the protection of the interests of the Municipality regarding the operation of the sanitary establishment in question, (b) for the acceleration of the issues related to the control of the legality of the operation of the sanitary establishments in the territorial jurisdiction of the Municipality through the coordination of the relevant services of the Municipality, and (c) for the systemic and systematic control of the operation of the sanitary establishment in the Municipality.