Tag: fines

"Komunalna higiena", the community hygiene public enterprise of the city of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, last year collected 11,000 cubic meters of waste from the illegal dumps and other sites. Also, in 2021 their Eco Patrol handed a total of 1,359 Informative-educational Reports to the people and the legal entities that were caught dumping waste illegaly. By average,...

During September and October this year, the Ministry of Interior of North Macedonia (MOI) issued 527 fines due to technical irregularities of the vehicles that are used for transportation of passengers, informed MOI. During the given two month period, controls were conducted of vehicles used for public transportation (buses, taxi vehicles, vans) both between municipalities and the intercity transportation...

The Government has sent to the Parliament of north Macedonia the new draft Law on Prevention of and Protection against Discrimination, which aims to improve the legal framework and adjust it to the EU's legislation and the international standards about protection from discrimination. The new law should cover all government bodies, the bodies of the local self-government, legal entities with...

The Basic Criminal Court Skopje has declared Macedonian Radio's First channel, but also the director of Macedonian Radio and Television, Marjan Cvetkovski, guilty for violation of the election silence. The court passed a sentence with fines for JRP MRT 1 in the amount of 1.800 EUR, including 200 EUR fine for Marjan Cvetkovski, who is held responsible, states the...

In the last 24 hours, the police registered 412 people who were caught not wearing face masks and. consequently, will be fined in accordance with the offence regulations provided by the Government of North Macedonia, informed the Ministry of Interior (MOI). The MOI urged the people to observe all measures and protocols provided by the Government in order to...

From today, state health inspectors and environmental health officers will continue to monitor kindergartens, after a temporary ban on the admission of children who haven't been vaccinated with the MRI vaccine, Irina Bukhova, the director of the inspectorate, told "Meta". “Our inspectors have been in the field since the ban began. From all the kindergartens that were checked so far...

The majority of citizens have no answer about where they should file a report if they notice that some of the media is spreading hate speech which represents a felony that is sanctioned with a fine and imprisonment from 1 to 5 years show the polls that were carried out by the Research Center IPSOS Macedonia supported by...

Since the new legislative amendments to the Criminal Code for Hate Speech came into force in February 2014, the Skopje Criminal Court has only charged two individuals with a fine over hate speech. The number of fines is very small in comparison to the 341 cases recorded on the digital platform "Report and Resist Hate Speech" in the same period, while...

The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (AVMU) will issue subpoenas against "1TV" and TV Sonce for constant violation of the referendum advertising during the period between 15th and 20th of September. "AVMU stated that since its public announcement on the 14th of September, two broadcasters that are a subject of monitoring for the ways of covering the...

The goal of the Government is to create space and mechanisms where the media can self-regulate, because they should not be the author of media reforms, said Minister of Information Society and Administration, Damjan Mancevski at today's debate on the draft Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services, which the Government organized as a continuation of the current debate...

Former directors of "Magyar Telekom" Elek Straub and Andras Balogh have agreed to pay fines and have also received a five-year ban on working as directors or employees of all joint stock companies, announced today the US Committee for Securities and Exchange, reports portal "Nova". Straub has been fined $ 250,000 and Balogh $ 150,000. “The Directors of "Magyar Telekom"...

Today, Judge Tatjana Mihajlova stopped the court hearing on the case regarding the violence outside the municipality Center in June 2013, in which the former Prime Minister and current leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, and another 15 people stand accused, and she fined the two prosecutors from the SPO, Katica Janeva and Fatime Fetai 2,000 euros for "contempt of...

Today in the city of Štip, a box will be placed at the “Karma Cafe” in the centre of Štip where citizens can donate money towards the fines and penalties which were given to participants of the “Colourful Revolution” in the city. They hope to raise a total of 1300 euros to help them pay the fines. Through various social...

Citizens have gathered 1.405 euros, 40 US dollars and 878,360 denars or in total, 15.528 euros at yesterday’s event at the cafe-bar “Izlet” in support of the protesters of the “Colourful Revolution” who have been fined or charged for taking part in protests. The “Colourful Revolution” stated that they are more than satisfied with the turn out at yesterday’s event...

Migrants, who yesterday managed to find a 'gap' in the Macedonian-Greece border fences and so entered Macedonian territory illegally before arriving at the village of Moin, near Gevgelija were returned to Greece, the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) said today to "Meta" journalists. Approximately 1500 people were detained yesterday by Macedonian security forces. A further group, 600 to 700 people...

It seems that current events were inspiration for the humorous Kochani citizens, who yesterday on improperly parked cars put messages with content: "Hundred euros fine for improper parking, plus a notification on "Facebook", plus free tapping". The message is written on a plain sheet of paper and is placed on the windscreen of several cars to the mall in Kochani. Owners...