Constitution

Texts

Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia 1974

Constitution 1992

Amendments to the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia 1992

Agreement on the constitutional amendments signed in Skopje, Macedonia, August 13, 2001

Constitution 1991 with amendments in 2005

Constitution 2005

Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia 2017

Constitutional Laws

Actions for the enforcement of sanctions 1997 abstract

Law on Political Parties, 2013

Law on financing of political parties – text consolidated – Abstract

Law on the protection of minorities, 2008

EU Court – Stavropegic Monastery of Saint John Chrysostom against the Republic of Macedonia 2019 

Religious Communities

Laws and decrees

Decree for the implementation of certain provisions of the Law on the legal status of religious communities in 1961

Law on the legal status of religious communities 1977

Law on communities and religious groups in 1997

Law on Foundations 1998

Law on public holidays in the Republic of Macedonia in 1997 amended in 2007

Law on the legal status of a church, religious community and a religious group in 2007

Law for prevention and protection against discrimination 2011

Law on Associations of Citizens and Foundations, 2002

Law on Associations and Foundations, 2010

Declaration for the implementation of the processor on lustration in Macedonia and the condemnation of attempts to devaluation

On the registration of the denomination of religious confessions in the register of trademarks and patents 2002

Supporting declaration of the Macedonian Parliament to the autocephaly of the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) 2004

Law on trademarks and patents applicable to religious denominations 2013

Statutes and Internal Rules

Macedonian Orthodox Church and Archbishopric of Ohrid

Recognition tomos of the Patriarchate of Ohrid 2003-2005

Statute of the Islamic community 2008

Constitution of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, 1994 

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Commission for Religious Relations with religious communities and religious groups in Macedonia

Request for registration of the Orthodox Archbishopric of Ohrid in the register of religious groups in the Republic of Macedonia

Decision of the Commission for Relations with Religious communities of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia for the registration of the Orthodox Archbishopric of Ohrid

Decision of the Government Commission for the second refusal of the registration of the Orthodox Archbishopric of Ohrid

Rules for the allocation of posts in the committee on relations with religious communities and religious groups

Organisational Chart of the Committee for Relations with the denominations and religious groups, 2010

Statute of the Commission for Relations with the cults, 2010

Table regarding the cooperator sector with the Church, religious communities, religious groups and protocols 2010

Relations Committee religious communities and religious groups in 2012

Letter from the President of North Macedonia to the Ecumenical Patriarch 2020 – Original document in Macedonian language

Case Law of the Constitutional Court, Legitimacy and Merit

Decision of the Constitutional Court no. 223/1997 repealing some articles of the Law on religious communities and religious groups

Appeal against refusal of registration in the court register of the religious community 2008

Appeal against the decision to refuse the registration of the Patriarchate of Ohrid in the court register 2009

Decision of the Supreme Court on the appeal of the Orthodox Archbishopric of Ohrid against the government of the Republic of Macedonia 2009

Decision of the Court of First Instance to register the monastery  of “St. John Chrysostom” 2009

Decision of the Court of First Instance of Skopje which is refusing the application for registration of the Archbishopric of Ohrid, worship greek-orthodox Patriarchate of Pec 2009

Decision No. 104 of 22/09/2010 2009-0-1 of the Constitutional Court on the cancellation of a religious community under the law on the legal nature of the church, religious communities and religious groups

Decision of the Constitutional Court on the abolition of some articles of the law on religious communities 2010 

Case Law of Court of Human Rights and European Court Justice

Decision of the Constitutional Court for annulment of Articles of the Law on the Legal Status of Churches, religious community or a religious group. Decision No. 104/2009 adopted on: 22/09/2010

Opinion no. 424/2007 on the draft law on the legal status of a church, a religious community and a religious group

On the proposal of adoptionof the law on the legal status of a church, religious community and religious group

CEDU case: Orthodox Archbishopric of Ohrid against Macedonia 2007

ECHR case of 12 April 2018 – the Bektashi community and others against the Republic of Macedonia 

Bodies And Church Properties

Laws and decrees

Law of denationalization 1998 n ° 20

Law on denationalization consolidated version 2000

Law on denationalization consolidated version 2000 abstract

Changing law of denationalization law 2000 n ° 31

Instructions for the denationalization 2000

Law on the issue of bonds of the Republic of Macedonia to finance the denationalization 2002

Changes 2003-2010 on the law on denationalization 2003 – abstract

Amending law on denationalization 2007

Amending law on denationalization 2010

Law on the denationalization 2010 consolidated text

Amending law on denationalization 2013 abstract

Law on the functioning of the Revenue Agency in 2010

Law on the fiscal process 2015

VAT act 2015

Law on the Revenue Agency 2016

Wealth Tax Act 2012

Personal Income Tax Act 2015

Law on the national spatial data infrastructure in 2014  

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Methods and procedures for determining the value of the structures subject to return in 2000 

Case law

Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Macedonia on the initiative of the association to protect the interests of the owners of the goods seized in 1998

Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Macedonia No. 10/2003

Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Macedonia on the law of denationalization 2010

Decision of the Administrative Court on the quantification of the refund for compensation in 2012 

Confiscation, Restitution and Compensation of Properties of Religious Communities

Agency for the management of seized goods in 2013

Agricultural land Act in 2007

Law on Cadastre 2015

Law on Expropriation Macedonia 2013

Law on the management of seized property, real estate gains and items seized in criminal proceedings 2009

Law on privatization and leasing of land owned by the State Building in 2011

Rules for agency’s internal organization for the management of seized assets in 2015

Construction of Worship And Urban Planning

Laws and decrees

Law on Urban Planning in 2015

Sustenance of the Clergy and Financing of Religious Communities

Laws and decrees

Law on Foreign Trade abstract

Law of accounting for non-profit organizations, 2003

Amendment to the law on accounting for non-profit organizations, 2003

Law on pension and disability insurance 2012

Law on the health insurance 2013

Law on contributions for compulsory social insurance in 2015  

Giurisprudenza

Decision of the Constitutional Court – Law on the accounting of non-profit associations, 2005 

Individual and Collective Religious Freedom and Minorities

Cemeteries

Law on cemeteries and funeral services, 2008

Amendment of the Law on cemeteries and funeral services, 2010

Law on cemeteries and funeral services, 2011

Amendment of the Law on cemeteries and funeral services, 2011

Amendment of the Law on cemeteries and funeral services, 2013

Religious assistance

Law on the status and activities of the Red Cross 

Conscientious objection

Law on Defense of conscientious objection in 2001

Law on Defense of conscientious objection in 2011

Law about pregnancy interruption 2013  

Emigration and labour

Laws and decrees

Law on Internal Affairs, 1995

Law on Internal Affairs, 2009

Law on Internal Affairs, 2014 

Teaching of Religion and Religious Schools

Laws and decrees

Law on elementary and middle school

Higher Education Law 2002

Primary Education Act 2008

Law on the higher education institutions of religious communities, 2008 

Case law

Judgment 195/99 of the Constitutional Court on the teaching of religion in school

Judgment 202/2008 of the Constitutional Court: assessment of the constitutionality of Article 26 of the Law on Primary Education

Constitutional Court Judgment of 15 April 2009 on the illegality of Art. 26 of the Law on Primary Education 

Provisions of the Criminal Code

Codes

Criminal code 1996 abstract

Criminal code 2011

Code of Criminal Procedure – art. 219

Criminal code 2014 abstract

Code of judical ethics 1994

Code of judical ethics 2010 

Laws and decrees

Law on International Cooperation in Criminal Matters, 2010 

Family

Laws and decrees

Family law 1992 abstract

Family law 2004

Family law amendment in 2006 

Provisions of the Civil Code

Codes

Code of Civil Procedure as amended in 2010 

Communication

Laws and decrees

The broadcasting law 1997

Law on access to radio and television, 2005 

Museums, Libraries, Archives and Cultural Heritage

Laws and decrees

Establishment of the fund Holocaust Museum

Law on the protection of cultural heritage 2004 

Administration Policies and Procedures

Laws and decrees

Law on the organization and functioning of the State Administration 2000

Law on general administrative procedures abstract

Law on administrative procedures 2005

Law on administrative disputes in 2006