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debt; approximation with the audit; and incorporating the recommendation of the Report of the Third Round
Evaluation GRECO. Certainly the most significant reform this year is the decriminalization of libel and
insult and adoption of the law on civil liability for libel and slander.
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In 2013 it is acceded to changes that are aligned with the provisions of the Criminal Code, the Law on
Criminal Procedure, further introduced provisions for house arrest, as well as amendments with special
emphasis on nuclear, radioactive and hazardous harmful substances or organisms.
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Amendments of the
crime “Fraud” have also been made, by a new paragraph that provides that by imprisonment from one to ten
years will be punished the one who intended for himself or for another to obtain unlawful proceeds, will
mislead another or will keep another in mislead by misrepresentation or concealment of facts that relate to
fraudulent sports game or set result of a sports game, and lead them to do something on account of their or
another person‟s property. The articles 253- and 253 are amended, relating to unauthorized receiving and
giving gifts. Furthermore, these users stipulate the responsibility to a legal entity. These acts are sanctioned
and mediator in giving and receiving the gift, which is most common in the fraud case of football matches.
Article 386 "Violence" has also been amended. Namely, this article shall contain acts relating to violence at
sporting matches and before the game, during the match and its full time. Changes to 394-c have been made,
which refers to the "financing of terrorism". In response to the serious concerns of the international
community for the financing of terrorism as a factor that significantly affects the number and severity of acts
of international terrorism in the country for the first time in 2008 criminalized "financing of terrorism" as a
separate crime in Article 394 -c of the Criminal Code. Alignment of the Criminal Code to the Criminal
Procedure is provided in the Action Plan for implementation of the Law on Criminal Procedure. The purpose
of the amendment is to create the preconditions for the application of the institute of guilt settlement
provided in the Law on Criminal Procedure. Also, Article 59 is amended and by leaving the option of
introducing a special way of serving a prison sentence under strictly regulated conditions. Besides these two
acts, the acts 231 and 231 of Chapter XXII- Crimes against the environment and nature have also been
changed.
The most recent amendments were made in 2014, in which a circle of reform made major changes to
the general criminal law institutes, penal sanctions and systematic of the special part of the Criminal Code.
Launching municipality statutory maximum prison sentence from fifteen to twenty years, and the change in
the deeds which are punishable with life imprisonment constructed a legal basis for imposing a
long sentence
of 40 years, in fact revoked and changed the acts relating to conditional release, concurrent offenses, etc.
There is also a new penalty “ban for attending sports matches” provided for acts of violence at sporting
events. In the security measures introduced a new measure “Medical and pharmaceutical treatment” was
introduced. In the specific section new incriminations have been added and more qualified and privileged
forms of basic deeds in many chapters have been provided. The recent amendments were inspired by
overcoming the problem of unequal sentencing policy of the courts
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Amendments to the Criminal Code of 2014 is essential in terms of the general criminal law insitution
system of sanctions and systematics in the special part of the Criminal Code. The most important is raising
the general statutory maximum prison sentence of fifteen to twenty years, and in the works that entail a
punishment of life in prison, constructed a legal basis for imposing penalty imprisonment of 40 years.
Expand the circle of minor penalties by introducing a new penalty, ban on attending sports matches
"provided for acts of violence at sporting events. Changes are entered and safety measures, and introduced
new measures:,, medical-pharmacological treatment. "The special part, despite some changes to the existing
introduces more new incrimination, and are provided and new qualified and privileged forms of basic works
in more head-also works with counter-life and body; freedoms and rights of man and citizen; crimes against
public health; incrimination against sexual freedom and sexual morality - victims
are children; crimes against
marriage, family and youth, while more extensive changes are made nomenclature of crimes against the
environment and nature. Significant changes are included in the provisions of the general rules for the
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Justification reflected in: First, no prison sentences for libel and slander and no court records for journalists convicted of these
offenses. Second, there is a cascade responsibility between journalist, editor and publisher. Third, reducing fees for non-pecuniary
damage and for the libel and slender. The new solution limits the highest compensation limits of
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thousand, of which two thousand
for the journalist, ten for the editor and fifteen euro for the publisher. Fourth, over 700 ties lawsuits for libel and slander have been
stopped, 325 of which against journalists. The amnesty will cover all final judgments until the date of enactment of the law have not
been made.
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More about the needs to change and amend: Draft-Law Amending the Criminal Code, Skopje, 2011, proposed by the Government
of the Republic of Macedonia.
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Tupancheski Nichola, Criminal Code, Integral Text - Preface, Brief Explanation and registry of terms. 2
nd
August Stip, Skopje,
2014