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National policies

The national transport policy declares that the Republic of Macedonia does not have maritime transport, due to which there is no maritime registry, and its launching is currently not envisaged.

Regular and special lake passenger transport exist on natural and artificial lakes in the Republic of Macedonia. The river transport and other types of transport on natural and artificial lakes are not of relevance.

The Port Authority, a body within the Ministry of Transport and Communications, performs registration and control of boats and vessels, upon a previously determined sailing capacity of the vessels (boats) by the inspection committee for determining the sailing capacity of the vessels of the Republic of Macedonia, established by the Ministry of Transport and Communications. The inspection and certification that the vessels have the sailing capacity is carried out in accordance with the technical regulations established by the International Association of Classification Societies IACS.

The Port Authority, a body within the Ministry of Transport and Communications, is responsible for the enforcement of legal regulations and conditions within the frames of the inland waterways navigation sector.

Priority areas

The national transport research priorities follow the findings and recommendations included in the Transport Infrastructure Regional Study (TIRS) and the Regional Balkans Infrastructure Project (REBIS - Transport).

Funding organisations

Ministry of Transport and Communications
A limited amount of funds, foreseen for specific infrastructure projects, are being used for research programmes on the state level. The Ministry of Transport and Communications carries out activities that refer to domestic water traffic.

Programme information

There are several development studies on a regional level which deal with transport research. The TIRS, REBIS and SBDI studies were prepared in the previous period.

On the local level, transport research programmes are prepared only for the development of specific projects that are to be implemented. One of the legal obligations of the fund for national and regional roads is to calculate the traffic on the national and regional roads, which represents the basis for preparation of diverse studies for development and financing. So far, traffic was tallied with obsolete automatic counters that did not have the capacity to perform classification of vehicles. In 2004, with credit funds from the World Bank, modern counters were procured, which will provide for the improvement of the transport database quality.

The research programmes (in the part referring to provision of services in aviation) are financed with donations from international institutions which the Republic of Macedonia is a member of (ICAO, EUROCONTROL), as well as the CARDS Programme I and II phase (Project for Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Control in the Western Balkans).

Contact Point

Ministry of Transport and Communications
Land and Transport Department
Square Crvena Skopska Opstina no. 4,
1000 Skopje

Chief of sector Branko Petkovski
Tel: (2) 3112 735
URL: www.mtc.gov.mk

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