DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION

The Department for international Co-operation in the Public Prosecution Office of the Republic of Macedonia is formed during 2000. It is consisted of deputies of the Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Macedonia and deputies of the Primary Public Prosecutor of Skopje, and assistants and younger assistant from the Public Prosecution Office of the Republic of Macedonia and the Primary Public Prosecution in Skopje. Besides the activities of this department in criminal cases of the Prosecution Office for international legal co-operation will have assignment to mutually inform the public prosecutions of other states about the most interesting data from the area of organized crime, criminal legislative of the other states and other activities.

4.1. INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY OF THE PUBLIC PROSECUTION OFFICE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

The Public Prosecution Office of the Republic of Macedonia accepting the need of integration in the framework of the European and world processes in the fight against the international organized crime and the implementation of the world positive experiences in the fight against the crime in general has developed a wide international activity. Within this activity the Public Prosecution Office of the Republic of Macedonia took part in many projects and programs in and out of the state.

Joint Program between the Commission of the European Communities and the Council of Europe on the Fight against Corruption and Organized Crime in States of Transition -Octopus 2. http://www.coe.fr. With in the Program OCTOPUS 2 are organized many seminars and study visits on subjects from the area of organized crime, money laundering, international co-operation in fight against the crime, improvement of the criminal legal institutes. Participants of this Program are public prosecutors, judges, representatives from the Ministry of Interior and Justice, the National Bank and others all from the countries participating in the Program: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldavia, Romania, Turkey, Poland, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Check Republic, Estonia.

Intensive co-operation and meetings with the representatives of SECI Southeast European Co-operative Initiative, Regional Center for Combating the Trans - Border Crime and the International Organization for Migration http://www.iom.int. Participating countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldavia, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey. Goals: -Support the regional cooperation; - Facilitation of the European Integration process of the associated countries; - building the new channels for cooperation; - solving questions for mutual interest to overcome specific political, historical and ethnic differences.

Program against corruption and organized crime in South - Eastern Europe (PACO) Project in judicial networking http://www.coe.int. As A contribution on the implementation of the Stability Pact Anti - corruption initiative (SPAI) and the SP against organized crime (SPOC) a PACO project is being lounged with the objective to strengthen judicial networking against organized crime among countries of S-E Europe. The main activities two regional seminars. Participating countries Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldavia, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey. The Public Prosecution Office has appointed a representative participating in the seminars.

In the frame work of the Co-operation Program to strengthen the Rule of Law, The Council of Europe 2nd Pan European Conference of Public Prosecutors http://www.coe.int, the Council of Europe, besides the permanent activities referred to the work of the Prosecutors General of the states that are lead by the principle of rule of law and the activities on the field of international legal aid in criminal matters has organized Pan-European Conferences of the Prosecutors of Southeastern Europe:

The First Pan- European Conference " What is the Public Prosecution in the XXI Century" was held in May 22. - 24. In Strasbourg on which for the first time all the Prosecutors from Europe took part.

The Conference adopted the Recommendations that refer to the international cooperation, and especially the need of:

- Close personal and professional acquaintance between the Prosecutors,

- To rise awareness of the Public Prosecutors for the meaning of the international co-operation in the criminal maters,

- To clarify the role of the Public Prosecutor in this kind of co-operation.

Pan-European Conference of the Public Prosecutors specialized in organized crime on subject "Protection of the Society from the Organized Crime" was held in Kasserta, Italy from 8th to 10th September 2000.

2nd Pan- European Conference of Prosecutors General of Europe on the theme "Harmonization and co-operation between prosecutors at European level" was organized as a multilateral meeting and was held in Bucharest, from 12 to 16 May 2001. It was designed to bring together prosecutors at the highest level from all member states as well as from candidate and observer states. The Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Macedonia, Mr. Stavre Dzikov, took part in this Conference and in the interest of the actual circumstances in the country He presented an information about the terrorism in the Republic of Macedonia and aquented the Prosecutors of the European countries with the case of the murder of the eight members of the Macedonian security forces at the village Vejce. The Conference adopted the following conclusions:

The Conference invites the Comity of Ministers of the Council of Europe to organize a Conference of the Prosecutors from Europe. Regarding the international co-operation in criminal maters the Conference believes that informal but flexible structure should be created and in that direction to forma Coordinative Bireu.

4.2. REGIONAL CO-OPERATION

In the framework of the intensive international activities of the Public Prosecution Office of the Republic of Macedonia is in direct contacts, organising meetings and working visits with the Public Prosecution Offices in the Region. In this direction are the meeting with the Prosecutors from the Republic of Croatia, the Republic of Slovenia, the Republic of Albania, the Republic of Bulgaria and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Within the plan of regional co-operation in1999 in Ohrid, RM organised by the Public Prosecution Office of the Republic of Macedonia a meeting of the Public Prosecutors from the states of South-Eastern Europe was hel with a subject;" The Possition of the Public Prosecution in the legal system in the Republic of Macedonian and the other countries of South-Eastern Europe and the Organized Crime and Corruption and their treatement in the legislative". On this meeting the Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Macedonia and hid deputies, the Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Greece Mr. Dimopulos Panajotis, the Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Bulgarija Mr. Nikola Filchev, the Public Prosecutor of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Mr. Vukashin Jokanovic, the Public Prosecutors of the Bosnian Federation Mr. Suljo Babic and Mr. Vojislav Dimitrievic, the assistents of the Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Albania Mr. Arben Rakipi, and a representative of the Council of Europe Mr. Alexander Seger. Written protocols were signed for co-operation between the Prosecutions in the area of organized crime and other types of crime.