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With 32 million euros, the state wants to take the control over the GA-MA gas pipeline
The state wants to be a full owner of the company for transporting natural gas "GA-MA" where it own only one share and where also Makpetrol company owns one share. These two have been waging long legal battles.
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev informed that the procedure of reaching an agreement with Makpetrol is still underway, but legally the procedures...
Starting from October, citizens will be able to get documents in electronic form – an electronic portal will become operational
Starting from October, a new national portal for electronic services will start working that will allow the citizens, apart from the regular procedure, to receive their documents in an electronic way i.e. only by several clicks, which will help to remove bureaucracy procedures, walking from one stand to another and waiting long ques informs Portalb.mk.
The Ministry of Information Society...
The government is preparing a new law on taxation of motor vehicles based upon CO2 emissions
The Ministry of Finance is preparing a draft bill for taxing motor vehicles. In the explanation that was published by ingle National Electronic Register of Regulations of the Republic of Macedonia, it is stated that with the new Law on excise the taxation of traveler vehicles is not a subject of interest by this law.
"Because it will be...
Great start for electronic tolls during July and August
In a period of one month, a profit in the amount of 14.126.731 denars was accumulated and there were 7.675 reloads by drivers that were paying tolls either with a card or a tag, which represents 5.8 % of the total income from the tolls during July. The Public Enterprise for State Roads see this as a great...
We shall request foreign loans for the airport train
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications has yet to make a feasibility study about the justifiability of introducing a direct train from the International Airport Skopje to the Transportation Center. In a statement for Meta agency, representatives of the ministry stated that they are yet to decide from which international financial institution they will apply for funding in order...
North Macedonia near the bottom of the lists in Europe by internet access to public administration
Last year, every fifth citizen of North Macedonia accessed public administration through internet. While one out of twenty filled online official forms, show data from EUROSTAT the statistical office of the European Union (EU).
In comparison, on average, in the European union every second citizen has access to information or services from state organs and public enterprises through the internet,...
The cleaning of the toxic lindane will await next year
The start of the cleaning of the small landfill with lindane in the yard of the former OHIS factory in Skopje. An international tender still hasn't been called for finding a company that will clean the first of several landfills that contain the dangerous herbicide lindane including the determining of a method that will eliminate or neutralize it. All...
We have a European public administration and Macedonian unemployment rates
The official number of employees in the public sector is close to the European average rates , as a percentage of the total number of employees, but it is still close to the Macedonian unemployment rates. Simoultaneously, the average unemployment rate in the EU is 6.8% or less than a half compared to the Macedonian.
According to Annual Report...
By 2021 the road connection to Bulgaria will be modernized
With the improvement of the bilateral relations between Macedonia and Bulgaria, the Macedonian government is also actively working on improving the road connection between the two countries. The Public Enterprise for State Roads at the moment is reconstructing the road from Rankovce to Kriva Planka (21 km long). This section from Corridor 8 will be fully repaired by the...
Lack of joint border crossings is hindering the work of the railway companies
Macedonia and Kosovo have signed an agreement for the introduction of joint border controls concerning the railway traffic since 2011, but until today a joint building of the Customs services, police, and inspection services haven't been built. As was Meta Agency informed by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, this building was supposed to be built by the Kosovar...
The highway near Hipodrom, Miladinovci and Petrovec will be reconstructed next year
During next year, the public enterprise for state roads plans to reconstruct the highway sections Hipodrom-Miladinovci, Miladinovci-Petrovec, and Petrovec - Hipodrom. The access roads into Skopje from the East are in the length of 28 km and for their reconstruction, a loan was taken from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
-We expect to announce a call...
The construction of the Kichevo-Gostivar Motorway will start in 2020
Macedonian government plans the start of the construction of the Kichevo - Gostivar Motorway on Corridor 8 for, broadly, the middle of the next year. The Public Enterprise for State Roads (PESR) informs that at the moment the project documentation for the first section - from Kichevo to the village Bukojchani, 12.7 kilometres long - is being prepared.
"The public...
Оld vehicles dominate the transportation – for every new, we import nine used busses (infographic)
Even after the several bus accidents in the country, Macedonian transporters continue importing second-hand buses and minibusses. According to the data of the Customs Administration of the Republic of North Macedonia, in the first six months of the year, 133 busses and minibusses have been imported, out of which up to 120 have already been used abroad. Nonetheless, information...
5,870 electronic devices for toll collection sold in one month
Macedonian drivers' interest in the new electronic toll collection system is on the rise. 5,870 e-cards and tags (Mtag and Mcard) have been sold in just one month, which enables easy and quick payment of toll on the ramps along Corridor 10.
"Passengers who have already purchased electronic devices are more than satisfied explaining that the implemented system works great,"...
A railway line to the Skopje airport would bring many advantages, but the authorities turn a deaf ear (Infographic)
The introduction of a direct railway line from the Transportation center to the International airport Skopje could shorten the traveling time and the expenses for the passengers and it will increase the comfort of travel to the airport. Despite these advantages, for now, there is no interest among the local authorities to introduce such a railway line.
We asked the...
The building of the new clinical center will take seven years and it will cost 500 million euros
The new clinical center will be completed in seven years and the whole project will cost 500 million euros, money which will come from the following banks: Erste Group, Raiffeisen Bank and Unicredit Bank, informed Health Minister Venko Filipche. He announced that the construction works will start at the beginning of next year.
-The first phase will be completed in...
“Gradski energetski sistemi” will build the gas supply network in Skopje
At today's government session, a decision was passed to give the city of Skopje permanent management of the central heating infrastructure that will be managed by the newly formed enterprise for the distribution of heating and gas "Gradski Energetski Sistemi" (City Energy Systems) (GES).
"Through AD GES - Skopje, the city of Skopje will be implementing its measures to decrease...
Half of the municipalities do not publish information about the public procurements regularly (Infographic)
Only one out of five municipalities i.e. little less than 20%, has been regularly publishing the calls for public procurements on their websites, showed the survey that the Meta.mk News Agency has performed scrutinizing the web sites of the 80 municipalities and the City of Skopje. Almost half of the municipalities, or 48%, do not have any data about...
There is no mine, but the forest above Ilovica is being mercilessly devastated
Environmentalists from the Strumica Region alarm that although there is no mine on Mount Ograzhden, the area where the Ilovica Mine was planned is being mercilessly destroyed by extensive logging of enormous area of high-quality wood by the local branch of the Public Enterprise "National Forests".
"We visited yesterday the local branch office of the public enterprise to express our...
Ohrid – Sveti Naum: A project for reconstruction of the old road will be selected by the end of the year
Instead of building a new express way, the state decided to reconstruct the current road Ohrid-Sveti Naum. From the Public Enterprise for State Roads, in an interview for “Meta”, they said that by the end of 2019 the most favourable bidder for the preparation of the project documentation for the reconstruction of the road Ohrid - Sveti Naum will...
