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The fuel sampled from inspected trucks intended for cement plant Usje was taken for analysis
The Ministry of Environment announced that today at the "Bogorodica" border crossing 11 trucks transporting waste used as fuel were stopped. Their final destination is the cement plant "Usje" and an analysis of the transported waste was conducted.
The fuel from refuse derived fuel has been used by the cement plant for quite a long time and it has...
OHIS Factory’s vinyl chloride is as dangerous as 100 tons of explosive, warn former employees
Zdravko Bonevski, one of OHIS' former employees asked "How do you plan to take away the 35 tons of the very dangerous vinyl chloride, who is a very explosive substance, when the railway lines that are supposed to be used for the transportation have been taken away and the tank was left". Thi substance is very dangerous that according...
IMF criticized the Macedonian government in its report: The increase of the minimal wage is not a well-targeted measure
In its latest report about Macedonia, the International Monetary Fund warned of risks and unwanted effects after the Macedonian government decided to increase the minimal wage in order to improve the living standard of workers with lower wages.
„The net minimum wage has been raised by 44 percent cumulatively since 2017 while productivity growth has been low. The minimum...
O2 Initiative representatives plea to MPs to show up at the Parliament and to ban the import of waste
Stand behind your words and show up at the Parliament tomorrow, put the topic for vote and finally adopt it. Stop lying to us as we are small children - said the members of the civic association Initiative O2 to MPs of the ruling coalition after the proposal for banning the import of waste used as fuel didn't pass...
A student living in Macedonian dormitories is eating one banana monthly shows the latest research
Annually, for each student that lives in a student's dormitory, 9kg of fruit is planned for him or her. For example, if during a period of one year, 4.000 kg of bananas were bought and if this number is divided with the number of students, it will end up that each student eats 1.5 kg of bananas i.e. one...
O2 environmental initiative have made a plea to Macedonian MPs: Ban the waste import and its burning, and save us from the poison
You are the voice of the people and that is why we plea that you pass the draft-changes in the Law on Waste Management that will ban the waste import that is burned in our country, appealed today the O2 initiative to the Macedonian MPs at the today's session at the Parliament where on the agenda is the draft...
The lustration has to be abolished immediately appeal civic organizations
Before the Parliament dissolves, a law to be adopted for abolishing and annulling the legal consequences of the lustration, appealed the Blueprint group for reforms in the judiciary. With the draft law that was adopted by the Government on the 24th of December, the legal consequences of the lustration have been annulled and a compensation for the lustrated is...
The children living in the area of municipality of Centar were most frequent patients due to pulmonary diseases
While the air pollution in Skopje is reaching record heights what has passed almost unnoticed are the results of examinations of the consequences of the air pollution on children's health in Skopje.
The highest rate of examinations by a doctor specialist due to pulmonary diseases was registered in the municipality of Centar while the lowest was registered in Saray,...
Macedonian industry wastes enormous quantities of drinking water which is used as process water
In a period when climate changes are happening and when the drinking water is becoming a resource of inestimable significance the industry subjects are wasting millions of cubic meters of drinking water as it is used as process water, reveals the latest data provided /a> by the State Statistical Office (SSO).
According to SSO, for technological purposes have...
An invitation to tender for the installation of cameras and electronic traffic signs along Corridor 10 will be announced by mid 2020
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications is preparing a tender for the introduction of an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) at Corridor 10's highway. The forthcoming snap parliamentary elections will not influence this project so the call will be announced by mid-year, informs the ministry.
The future communication-information system for controlling and managing the traffic includes cameras for video surveillance,...
New taxation for old vehicles starting from New Year
Starting from next year, a new tax for old vehicles will be introduced with the new Law on taxation of motor vehicles, announced the Minister of Finance, Nina Angelovska. The goal of this measure is to decrease the air pollution caused by the traffic.
The amount of taxation will depend on the pollution the imported vehicle causes. The electric...
Effects of the lustration in Macedonia: 30.000 people were checked, 204 people were lustrated, 80 people were listed with their full names and 78 are deceased
A total number of 204 people out of which 80 were named, was the last version of the Registry of the Committee for Lustration that in the period between 2009 and 1st of September 2015 was determining whether the candidates for public jobs, current or former, were collaborating with the homeland security organs from 1944 until 2006. This past...
Eco-activists meet with Macedonian President Pendarovski – The institutions are not well coordinated and that is the reason why we ended up here
Ban of waste importing, vetting of all elaborates and permits for building small hydroelectric power stations in protected areas, joint interventions by the police and the environmental inspectors on the territory of the whole of the country. These are the four key requests on part of the representatives of ecology associations that they presented at the session of...
One in five apartments in Skopje is under mortgage
As with September, a total number of 132.527 apartments were put under mortgage which is 12.2% of the total number of 1.084.534 registered apartments in our country, show the data taken from The Registry of Prices and Real Property.
On top of the list of cities with the biggest number of apartments under mortgage is Skopje where...
Euromax Resources announced an international arbitrage concerning the Ilovica mines
Concerning the Government's unilateral termination of the Agreement for a mining concession at Ilovica, Euromax Resources see this as a political decision which is contrary to government's official announcements that were published in several past few days and they are waiting for the Administrative Court to pass a decision regarding this issue.
"This is a political decision that completely...
Macedonian Government terminated the agreement for the Ilovitza mine
The Government terminated the agreement for the Ilovitza mine, announced today the government's press service. The press release states that during yesterday's session in Kumanovo a decision was passed to cancel the agreement for a concession on the location of Ilovitza in the municipality of Bosilovo.
The Government informed that the Concession Agreement for the exploitation of raw mineral...
The Macedonian cities of Tetovo and Gostivar will be connected to gas networks next year
The building of the gas pipeline network is underway and is expected all magisterial gas pipelines to be completed during 2020 stressed the Minister of Transport and Communications Goran Sugareski and the Minister of Economy Kreshnik Bekteshi during today's visit at a location where the magisterial gas pipeline Skopje - Tetovo - Gostivar is built.
The gas pipeline Skopje...
The Macedonian Committee for Infectious Diseases has declared an end to the measles epidemic
The Committee for Infectious Diseases at the Ministry of Health stated that all epidemic conditions were met for declaring an end to the measles epidemic on the territory of the whole country. This means that all additional measures for controlling the epidemics are ceased, informed the Ministry of Health.
This decision was made when 45 days have passed since...
An analysis based upon UNESCO’s proposal for an alternative railway route to Albania is underway
The Government ordered the General Secretariat to issue a procedure in a period of 10 days for a public acquisition of preparing an analysis upon the proposal for an alternative railway line route along Corridor 8 that was already proposed by UNESCO's Reactive mission in 2017, informs the government's press service.
UNESCO has criticized the current roadbed of the...
Apart from half of state institutions, state directors will be appointed by a committee instead of the Government
A committee instead of the Government will be appointing high ranking managers in institutions by selecting candidates -professionals. But this will not be happening in all of the public sector. The changes, along with the prescribed disciplinary responsibility for managers, is planned as part of the draft law for high-ranking managing service, that the Government has adopted during its...
