Internal / management control system

METRA internal/managerial control (IMCS) system pursues the achievement of an efficient organizational pattern of all its subordinated structures, capable to continuously improve its performance for both qualitative and quantitative indicators.

METRA internal/management control system pursues three permanent outers as follows:

  1. Functional efficiency;
  2. Internal and external information reliability;
  3. Internal policy regulations.

In order to provide public funds economically, METRA ensure the internal control works properly, such as the internal audit, established by the headquarters according to the agency`s outers as well as the legal regulations. Of highly importance are the organizational methods and procedures.

The internal / management Code was distributed and pursued to all METRA structures according to 600/20.04.2018 order and M100/13.05.2020, issued by the Government General Secretariat.

METRA applies the Ethic Conduct Code for military as well as for the civil personnel within the Ministry of National Defence, according to the minister of National Defence order M 94/2004 – establishing guidelines for the ethical behavior in achieving job duties, applicable to both management personnel and the leadership posts as well as the Ehic Code for the personnel specialized in acquisition, within the Ministry of National Defense, adopted by the minister of National Defence order M. 6/15.01.2004 and Code of ethics and professional deontology of the research-development-innovation personnel from the Ministry of National Defense, approved by the Head of the General Directorate for Armaments order, no. DA-16 / 01.07.2020.

 

The specific objectives and performance indicators of METRA for 2020 were established, approved, and brought to the attention of all agency staff.

METRA management control system procedural plan was in accordance with the General Armaments Directorate Plan.

The planning and management documents were elaborated and approved according to the structure objectives.

For each objective mentioned within the specific objectives and performance indicators plan, there have been established the performance of each indicator, which can also be found in the Special Register of evidence of research and development activities.

Major risks have been identified, risks that may affect the effectiveness and efficiency of operations in compliance with rules, regulations, trust in financial, internal, and external management information, protection of assets, prevention and detection of fraud.

METRA Risk Register was drawn up, after the centralization of the Risk Registers at the level of each structure. As for the unit level, the activities carried out were inventoried. The activities are carried out within a framework regulated by laws, instructions and norms in force at national and departmental level.

All activities carried out certain procedures, either through their own procedures and work instructions, or through other provisions of present regulations. There have been analyzes on the state of implementation and development of SCIM in METRA also.

The following documents were sent to the upper echelon on time:

  • The 2020 centralized situation regarding the stage of implementation and development of the internal managerial control system in METRA;
  • Self-assessment questionnaire regarding the implementation of the internal managerial control standards in METRA;
  • The synthetic situation of the self-assessment results for 2020;
  • The report on the internal managerial control system implemented and developed in METRA, for 2020.

Following the self-assessment operations of the internal / managerial control system at the unit level, it has been issued a situation regarding the stage of implementation of the standards.