Accountability of public servants.If the government is interested in making the public administration more efficient, it is essential that it establishes an effective (!!!!) system of accountability within its own ranks.To achieve this, I propose that, as in the case of taxation, it establishes a system of liability for damages for responsible workers and departments in the public administration. This would establish a system of division of tasks among specific individuals and, of course, much more responsible behaviour on the part of those individuals.A. Reasons for the proposal: 1. Failure (or failure only to the extent that it suits the public servant) of public servants to respond to the questions and suggestions of us, the users (the parties for whose sake the public servants exist in the first place), 2. Failure to implement, or partial implementation of, the law due to the negligence of certain departments (perhaps specific employees), 3. Irresponsible behaviour on the part of public servants causes multiplied public and economic damage. 4. A concrete example: due to the irresponsible behaviour of the public sector, the implementation of a project worth over € 50 million, which would be more than 80% financed by the EU, is at risk. Who and how will be held responsible if some 100 workers are not employed and remain on the shoulders of the State (at the employment service), if the State does not collect some € 100 million in taxes from the same project, if some 10 000 citizens (users) do not live more securely as a result of this project? Under the current system of responsibility sharing, no one will be held accountable, because in a specific case the State (its officials) is in charge and responsible for the implementation of a specific project. As we know, there are no sanctions for failure to do so.B. What should the responsibilities include:1.Penalty for a civil servant who fails to answer questions within the time limits provided by law. A penalty should also be imposed on the responsible department in the Ministry and on the Ministry as a whole.2.A penalty for a civil servant who fails to give an explanation to the user (the citizen who asks) or to direct the user to another responsible person,3.A penalty for a civil servant (and consequently a department) who is responsible for the implementation of a particular law (project), if it is not implemented only by the civil servant who is responsible for the implementation of the law (project). Example: the law provides for a certain consultative body, inspection services, etc., to be set up by the State. As is well known, nobody suffers from the non-implementation of this, except of course the citizens (users) for whom the law is supposed to make their lives easier. 4.Penalty for the responsible civil servant if, in the case of outsourcing of tasks or projects to "external contractors" (companies exposed to the market), he/she fails to implement the provisions of the contract and to initiate the appropriate procedures arising from the contract.5.Penalty for the competent minister if he/she fails to identify the responsible persons for a specific area or a specific project. In this case, as ministers are rotating, an appropriate transition period should be established or the minister should be warned to identify the responsible persons before being penalised if there are none.C. What would this achieve:1.A more accountable and efficient functioning of the State,2.Redirecting some of the inefficiently used resources (penalties) to other more efficient sectors of the civil service,3.A quicker response by the state to emerging problems,4.Less corruptionD. Why could such a system work?:By assigning work, the responsible person in the public sector delegates a specific task to another person in the public sector, thereby transferring responsibility. When it is necessary to hire an external contractor (exposed to the market) to carry out the project, and if the task is not carried out by this "external contractor", the contractual provisions are realised (guarantees, penalties, etc.) and the contractor is replaced by another contractor on the market. If the responsible public sector person does not realise the contractual provisions, he is subject to criminal liability.E. Penalties?:Similar to the penalties provided for in the tax legislation. If they have no effect, they are increased and tightened until they have a satisfactory effect (as in the case of the alcohol law).F. Organigram: attached in annex