<p>Center for Civil Communications published the <a href="http://soros.org.mk/dokumenti/mak-za-web-izvestaj-2009.pdf" target="_blank">Annual report on public procurement (.pdf)</a> which contains the results of the monitoring process of public  procurement in Macedonia, at the conference held on February 22, 2010 in  Skopje.</p>
<p>Among other things, the report highlights the ten biggest problems in  public procurement in Macedonia and offers expert recommendations for  overcoming the weaknesses in the system of public procurement.</p>
<p><span>The purpose of the monitoring is to assess the conduct of the  procurement process in Macedonia within the new law and to detect  whether the basic principles of public procurement: transparency,  competition, equal treatment of economic operators, non-legality,  economical, efficient, </span><span>effective and rational use of  budgetary resources, efforts to get the best offer under the best  conditions and accountability for money spent in public procurement. </span><span>The  conference was attended by fifty representatives of institutions and  organizations involved in procurement process who expressed their views  and opinions on the findings from the monitoring of this important  process.</span></p>
<p>The English version of the report can be downloaded here: <a href="http://soros.org.mk/dokumenti/ang-za-web-izvestaj-2009.pdf" target="_blank">Annual report on monitoring the implementation of public procurement (.pdf)</a></p>
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