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The Law on Free Access to Public Information (“Official Gazette of RNM” No. 101/2019) mandated the creation of the Agency for Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information (hereinafter referred to as the Agency) and its operations began on December 25, 2019, per the Decision of the Assembly of the Republic of...

COMPETENCIES OF THE AGENCY: Under Article 30 of the Law, the Agency performs the following competencies: – The Agency conducts an administrative procedure and decides on appeals against the decision by which the holder of public information refused or rejected the request for access to information of the applicants; – Ensures the implementation of the...

PLAMENKA BOJČEVADate of birth: 21.10. 1969Place: SkopjeEducation: Faculty of Law – Judicial Faculty 1991/1992Title: Bachelor of Law, passed the bar exam in 2011Contact Phone: +389 2 3118 038 E-mail: plamenka.bojceva@aspi.mk 15.03.1993 – 15.03.1995 District Commercial Court, Skopje (volunteer practice) 01.04.1998 – 28.12.2014 AD “Makedonska Poshta” Skopje, Advocacy and Agreement Officer and Head of Human Resources...

Representatives of regulatory bodies for access to public information participated in an online conference held today (20 October 2020). The Information Commissioner of Slovenia organized the conference, and it was attended by representatives from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.  The director of the Agency for the Protection of the...

The Agency for the Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information, in cooperation with the National Democratic Institute and VIDI VAKA, financially supported by USAID, developed an educational video intended for the information requesters. The instructional video details the complete legal process for executing the constitutionally protected right to access public information....

Bojan Maricic, the Minister of Justice of the Republic of North Macedonia, received Plamenka Bojcheva and Blerim Iseni, the director and deputy director of the Agency for the Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information, on September 28, the International Day of Free Access to Information. Several topics concerning the administration of...

Today, September 28, is the INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO INFORMATION. On that occasion, under the motto “You have the right to know”, the Agency for the Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information informed about the importance of the timely availability of information and the activities undertaken by the Agency...

At the Agency for Promotion and Support of Tourism’s website at http://tourismmacedonia.gov.mk/domasiedoma/ you will find information and details regarding the national campaign “Home is home”. The link contains ten promotional videos from tourist destinations in the Republic of North Macedonia in an effort to promote domestic tourism.

The Agency for the Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information held today the first in a series of planned one-day trainings on the topic: “Application of the Law on Free Access to Public Information” (Official Gazette of RSM No. 101/2019), and whose implementation started at the beginning of 2020.  With the...

The Government of the Republic of North Macedonia has prepared a new specialized website where you can get all the necessary official information about the coronavirus in the country. More information on the following link: http://koronavirus.gov.mk 

The Agency for the Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information has prepared a 2020 Training Program for Officials Mediating Public Information.  The program is available for download at the following link: Program-for-training-2020.pdf. 

The Agency for the Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information, in collaboration with the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and with the aid of CEFE Macedonia, conducted online training for trainers for the Agency’s employees in the period of July 20 to July 27, 2020. Adapting to the COVID-19 circumstances, the training...

There is now a designated email address for filing complaints with the Agency for the Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information. Applicants who do not hear back from the Agency within the stipulated time frame or who are dissatisfied with the Agency’s response may file a complaint with the Agency in...

The Agency for the Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information prepared a short survey at the end of June to collect original and reliable data on the implementation of the Law on Free Access to Public Information from the beginning of 2020, i.e. from the start of working of the Agency...

The Agency for the Protection of the Right to Free Access to Public Information has completed almost 800 backlogged cases from 2018 and 2019, and the handling of complaints by information requesters proceeds regularly within the established legal deadlines, says the Agency’s director, Plamenka Bojcheva, in an interview for “Meta.mk”. In 2020, the Agency received...