Tag: Ministry of Economy

After Meta.mk's article about the situation with the stockpiled arsenic and other toxic mineral raw materials in the tailing ponds of the former Lojane Mine and the deposits near the village of Tabanovce in relative vicinity, the Ministry of Economy of North Macedonia sent a request to competent inspectorates to conduct an inspection and to take measures if they...

A year has passed since the North Macedonia Minister of Economy Kreshnik Bekteshi stated that the import of used cars in North Macedonia below the EURO 5 standard for gas emissions will be banned. He announced that the ban of cars older than 10 years will start in 2021, but toward the end of last year, the Ministry of...

In the past several decades, the villages of Tabanovce, Lojane and Vaksince in the Kumanovo region have been continuously poisoned by arsenic and other toxic elements that had been dispersed on two locations near the border of North Macedonia with Serbia. At the first location, in the proximity of the Tabanovce Railway Station there is an illegal dump with hundreds...

Notwithstanding the announcements that the environmental tax on fuels will be implemented in North Macedonia from the 1st of July, until today the tax still wasn't introduced and there are no announcements that an additional rise in fuel prices will happen in the forthcoming period. Environmental tax was announced for diesel, gasoline and other petroleum products. This, reportedly, should...

The global shortage of microchips and semiconductors has caused problems in the automobile production sector worldwide. This problem also affects North Macedonia. According to the forecasts, the shortage of chips will last until the second half of 2022. The problem with the microchips and the semiconductors problem has been present for a year and a half, resulting in some of...

The import of used vehicles below the EURO 5 standard for emission of gases will continue in North Macedonia in the next several months. The Ministry of Economy has no decisive date when the rule books containing new technical requirements and specifications for the import of vehicles from abroad will be changed nor has it determined a deadline when...

In the forthcoming period, the Macedonian Government and TAV Macedonia will make an annex to the agreement for the airport concession where the assets planned for the building of a cargo airport in Shtip will be diverted for projects of public interest for the state. This was announced by the Minister for Economy Kreshnik Bekteshi after the meeting with...

With the end of the state of emergency, several government orders that prevented the price rise of basic food products, southern fruits, and protective equipment will expire. These were adopted to prevent manipulations in the trade when the coronavirus occurred. The Ministry of Economy informs the retail traders and wholesale traders that with the end of the state of emergency...

The Government still hasn't received the ruling of the Administrative Court on the lawsuit by the former concessionaire of the mines in Ilovica and Shtuka, even though it was accepted by the end of March. "The Government of the Republic of North Macedonia still hasn't received any official document about the Administrative Court's ruling in favor of the former concessionaire...

The “Colourful Revolution” today at 12:00 noon blocked more crossroads than they had announced in the centre of Skopje today. Besides the three crossroads they had announced previously that they were going to block, they took more guerrilla-action, and also blocked the crossroad outside the Ministry of Economy, which came to a surprise to today's drivers. https://twitter.com/meta_agency/status/740487815021072384 Beforehand, police officers had...

Today the "Colourful Revolution" are demonstrating against the "selling" of workers on minimum wages, and hurled paint at the Employment Agency (ESA) and the Ministry of Economy, and chanted "The Youth are Gone, Party Members are In," and "Party Membership, and Through the Door you Go!". Before the protesters, spoke several students and a professor from the Faculty of Economics, Biljana Sekulovska-Gaber, who...

Ministry of Economy, through amendments to the Law on free technological development zones, annuls the recent changes to the law passed last year that foreign investors, except lease of land, were allowed to buy plots in some of the free zones, reports portal "E-magazin". Under the proposed changes submitted to the Assembly, the previous law is reinstated, i.e. before the...