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Social responsibility
 Evaluation of public procurement in the Czech RepublicPublic Procurement System, according to the researches by the World Bank, is mostly subject to corruption. Transparency International – Czech Republic (TIC) in December 2004 started a project focused on public procurement in the Czech Republic. TIC’s long-term objective is this project to contribute to more transparent procedures and to minimize opportunities for corruptive practices in the process of public procurement. |  |
Debate on global civil society
Accountability and responsibility for results achievementPrior to the beginning of the CIVICUS World Assembly on 22 and 23 May in Glasgow, a Brainstorming workshop for participatory governance was held, where representatives of governmental institutions, international organizations, research institutions and civil society organizations took part from different countries all around the world. | |
How is tax payment regulated when a foreign legal entity is engaged?
Tax treatment of the withheld profit taxAccording to Article 29-a of the Profit Tax Law, unless otherwise regulated in the international agreements for avoidance of double taxation, entities who pay income to a foreign legal entity shall be obliged to withhold tax at payment of the income and shall pay the tax withheld to a respective suspense account simultaneously with the payment of the income. | |
A jubilee
85 years of the Economic Chamber of MacedoniaThe Economic Chamber of Macedonia celebrated 85 years of its establishing and active work. The Chamber, which is the oldest as the most numerous business-sector association in our country, marked its jubilee under the name “Tradition, Power, Quantity and a formal meeting for over 2 000 businessman and their numerous partners and guests, among which the highest rank state representatives. | |
Nenad Mladenovski, AIESEC Macedonia president
Practice is the most intensive way of learning and experience gatheringThe students’ organization AIESEC in Macedonia in March this year received another office in Skopje, within a project dedicated to the process of integration of young people in the EU. What does it offer to the members and what other project is AIESEC working on this year? | |
Views: Sonja Gavrilova
Voluntarism, directly from the fieldTo work as a volunteer for ten years in the NGO – Parents’ Association for Care for Healthy Generation from Veles is above all a rich life experience that should be shared with the public, in interest of improving volunteerism in Macedonia.
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A novelty in Macedonia
The first domestic bio-diesel is produced in Makedonska KamenicaThe Association of People with Disabilities “Zvezda” from Makedonska Kamenica has been the only producer of bio-diesel in Macedonia for several years now. The production is still in its experimental phase and it is part of the project “Sustainable production of bio-diesel from a waste cooking oil”, financed by GEF. The fuel goes to the Association of Women-Farmers “Agro-Vinka”. The overall technology for producing the bio-fuel is owned by Blagoj Mihailovski, president of “Zvezda”, who, together with his brother, became interested in producing fuel from various oils as early as in his high-school days. | |
Cooperation
Donations help the children without parents later in their individual lifeThe association of children without parents from the orphanages in the Republic of Macedonia “Idnina” from Skopje, in cooperation with “T- Mobile”, organized a humanitarian action for helping the children without parents when they leave the orphanages and start their individual life. Money, clothes and house ware is being collected that will help the mature proteges step into the real life after leaving the collective homes when turning 18. About ten children leave the collective homes a year on average. | |
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