
<p>The necessity of implementing the measures stems from the wide room for  corruption in illegal construction and town planning, which is suggested  by the thousands of illegal constructions, as well as the great  percentage of apartment and office blocks among the illegal  constructions, which supports the thesis of an illegal business rather  than solving individual housing issues.<br /><br />During the workshop,  expert opinions were expressed by Vanja Mihajlova, Miroslav Grcev,  Ph.D., and Miroslav Markovski,  but their views were also shared by representatives from the Association  of Chambers of Commerce of Macedonia, the State Anti – corruption  Committee, the Municipality of Gjorce Petrov, the Association of Local  Self – government Units, the City of Skopje, etc. The measures for  narrowing the room for corruption in the illegal construction may be  found in the reports section or here.</p>