Financial Risk:
Moderate
Score:
59/100
Asset Disposals
Q24
67/100
How effective are controls over the disposal of assets, and is information on these disposals, and the proceeds of their sale, transparent?
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The disposal of assets is explicitly regulated by the Law on Use and Management of Assets of Public Bodies [1]. This Law also applies…
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Planned disposals are known and their details are published in advance. As noted by the DiFi report in 2015, the Ministry of Defence has…
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Financial information relating to the procedure of assets disposal is limited. The Ministry of Defence has no separate reporting and accounting system for this.…
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Q25
0/100
Is independent and transparent scrutiny of asset disposals conducted by defence establishments, and are the reports of such scrutiny publicly available?
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So far, neither the Parliament nor the Committee of Defence and Security have reviewed or scrutinised the process of asset disposal within the Ministry…
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This indicator has been marked Not Applicable. The State Audit Office has not yet reviewed the Ministry of Defence’s assets disposal. It is worth…
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This indicator has been marked Not Applicable, as the State Audit Office has not yet reviewed the Ministry of Defence’s assets disposal. The State…
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Secret Budgets
Q26
25/100
What percentage of defence and security expenditure in the budget year is dedicated to spending on secret items relating to national security and the intelligence services?
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The Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Interior budgets are not transparent when it comes to spending on secret items. The defence and security…
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Q27
75/100
Is the legislature (or the appropriate legislative committee or members of the legislature) given full information for the budget year on the spending of all secret items relating to national security and military intelligence?
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The 2015 Difi report notes that Intelligence Services report to the Parliament. These hierarchical relationships are clearly stated in the Laws on Intelligence Agencies…
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Q28
0/100
Are audit reports of the annual accounts of the security sector (the military and intelligence services) subject to parliamentary debate?
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The State Audit Office (SAO) externally audits all budget users, including the defence and military sector, in accordance with the Law on State Audit…
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Parliament receives audits from the security sector (no information counters this) and, as noted in the 2015 Difi report, all other audit reports are…
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Q29
100/100
In law, are off-budget military expenditures permitted, and if so, are they exceptional occurrences that are well-controlled? In practice, are there any off-budget military expenditures? If so, does evidence suggest this involves illicit economic activity?
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Article 145 from the Law on Defence stipulates that financial resources for state administration bodies with regards to defence are taken from the national…
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This indicator has been marked Not Applicable, as there are no public indicators suggesting possible off-budget military spending. Further, the budget of the Ministry…
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There are no public indicators suggesting possible off-budget military spending. No off-budget expenditures are allowed. Even in an exceptional state of emergency, the Parliament…
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Q30
88/100
Are mechanisms for accessing information from the defence sector effective?
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The legal framework for accessing information within the defence sector is outlined in the Law on Free Access to Public Information [1] and in…
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This indicator is not assigned a score in the GDI. The Law on Classified Information regulates the classification of information to determined the conditions,…
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Oral and written requests to information are answered within 10 to 30 days, in accordance with Articles 13 and 21 of the Law on…
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Q31
100/100
Do national defence and security institutions have beneficial ownership of commercial businesses? If so, how transparent are details of the operations and finances of such businesses?
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Defence institutions, the Ministry of Defence and the Army of the North Macedonia, are minor commercial enterprises. All their activities account for less than…
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Details regarding the commercial usage, capacities and services offered by the defence institutions as commercial enterprises are publicly available and advertised on the Ministry…
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Military-owned Businesses
Q32
50/100
Are military-owned businesses subject to transparent independent scrutiny at a recognised international standard?
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The commercial activities of the defence sector are overseen by the Ministry of Defence’s Internal Audit Department (IAD) and the State Audit Office (SAO),…
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Audit details of the Internal Audit Department are not made available to the public. Audit details of the State Audit Office, however are publicly…
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Illegal Private Enterprise
Q33
100/100
Is there evidence of unauthorised private enterprise by military or other defence ministry employees? If so, what is the government’s reaction to such enterprise?
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The Law on Civil Servants [1] and the Law on Prevention of Conflict of Interests [2] define and regulate illegal aspects of unauthorised private…
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There is no evidence of unauthorised private enterprise by Ministry of Defence or Army employees [1]. That said, no media investigations or reports on…
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Actual Military Spending
Q77
50/100
Is comprehensive data on actual spending on defence published during the budget year?
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The Ministry of Defence proactively publishes annual reports on the execution of the budget in a detailed format [1]. However, information is organised in…
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Most details of defence spending are disclosed, including the destination of this spending (including administration, army, peace and humanitarian operations, properties and services, military…
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Details of defence spending are published within six months of the end of each financial year. For instance, the 2017 annual reports was published…
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Variances between the published budget and actual spending amounts are are not publicly explained [1].
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