The Treasury abolishes its Secretary General. In the future, his duties will be bundled in a new presidential section. Especially the conversations of the former Secretary-General of the Ministry of Finance, Thomas Schmid, against whom the Public Prosecution Service (WKStA) is investigating, put this post in a bad light. Dietmar Schuster currently holds this position.
Finance Minister Magnus Brunner (ÖVP) had already announced an organizational reform at the start of his term in office. This builds on the internal audit report and also the findings from the years of the pandemic serve as a basis. The first step in the restructuring is now being taken with the immediate abolition of the secretary-general position and the creation of a new presidential section. Brunner hopes this will lead to more “efficiency, transparency and modern structures”.
Tasks are bundled, management is advertised
The new Presidential Section brings together the duties of the former General Secretariat and other presidential duties previously enshrined in other Sections. The management function for the new section will now be announced “soon”, as the ministry emphasizes. A further change in the powers and tasks in the central management is currently being planned and will be implemented from the autumn. The establishment of a separate purchasing and law department is planned.
As a basis for the conversion of the central line, expert advice was requested from a company specialized in organizational structures via a quote from the Federal Procurement Agency. The reform will take effect retroactively on July 18, 2022. This formally completes the expansion of the financial department’s agenda with Section V – Digitization and E-Government and Section VI – Telecommunications, Post and Mining.
Source: Krone
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