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Finance and Marketing Division
Finance, Accounting and Controlling Department
The departments operating in the areas of finance, accounting and controlling carried out their tasks in
2007 in line with the Agreement on the Performance of Contracts and the Concession Agreement.
In performing its tasks, the Department devoted special attention to the following:
• the preparation of proposals for financing the National Motorway Construction Programme and the
budget of the Company in order to ensure the undisturbed supply of financial resources,
• the preparation of proposals for financing the construction of individual motorway sections under the
National Motorway Construction Programme,
• the acquisition of funds earmarked for financing the National Motorway Construction Programme,
funds from the Cohesion Fund, financial resources in financial and capital markets, and other financial
resources for financing the National Motorway Construction Programme,
• the optimisation of sources of funds for motorway construction under the National Motorway
Construction Programme,
• ensuring the regular supply of financial resources,
• the management of loans raised for the performance of tasks relating to motorway construction under
the National Motorway Construction Programme with the goal of reducing currency, interest and other
risks,
• the profitable placement of surplus liquid funds,
• monitoring the financing of the National Motorway Construction Programme as a whole and by
individual sections under NMCP, and monitoring the acquisition and utilisation of funds,
• reporting to the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Finance,
• cooperation with international and domestic financial institutions.
Sales and Marketing Department
The Strategic Marketing Department mainly performed tasks involving the organisation, management
and conduction of analyses and surveys of the relevant market, market opportunities, and possibilities
for the development of new products and services. The new service for electronic media users, i.e. the
option of remote loading of credit via the Internet, which at least partly helped to reduce waiting times at
toll collection booths, was successfully implemented.
The Department actively participated in preparing a concept of the implementation of electronic free
flow toll collection, in negotiations with haulers, and in the preparation of toll pricelists, within the scope
of which a night toll applicable in the tourist season and during the Christmas holidays was introduced by
order of the Ministry of Transport.
The Sales Department carried out the following tasks:
• entered into post-paid toll account contracts,
• prepared and distributed proforma invoices to domestic and foreign users of electronic media,
• prepared toll accounts and delivery notes for prepaid account top-up,
• issued invoices for post-paid services and collected receivables prior to court action,
• prepared a stop list of nonpayers,
• concluded contracts with payment card issuers,
• transferred data files and issued invoices to cardholders, confirmed fees,
• organised the sale of electronic media at external sales locations,
• communicated with motorway users,
• concluded contracts for rest areas (8 rest areas located on motorway sections under construction were
successfully leased), issued invoices, and prepared analyses related to the operation of rest areas.
34 ANNUAL REPORT DARS d.d. 2007 BUSINESS REPORT