Published on 15.08.2022

DDK Attorneys at law once again is ranked as Tier 1 law firm in North Macedonia in the categories ‘Finance and Banking’ and one of the leading law firms in ‘Project Development’ on the 2022 IFLR1000 rankings.

Professionalism, ambition, and hard work makes us for many years one of the top leading law firms in North Macedonia, recognized by clients and confirmed by their trust in DDK.

IFLR1000 researches and ranks the best financial and corporate law firms across the globe by surveying client referees for their opinion on the performance of the law firms.  We are proud to be part of the IFLR1000 research cycle and to be recognised as Tier 1 law firm in North Macedonia based on our clients’ opinion. There is no greater acknowledgment of our work than the one of our clients.

More information about IFLR1000 2022 rankings is available on the link: North Macedonia – Jurisdiction Rankings | IFLR1000

Published on 08.08.2022

The general framework for donations and sponsorships in Republic of North Macedonia is regulated by the Law on Donations and Sponsorships in Public Activities, where the main and basic goal is to improve the personal and common life of the citizens, citizens’ associations and foundations, as well as legal entities and individuals, through realization of the public interest, which also contributes to their economic well-being and social justice. Additional benefit exercised by the donors and sponsors are certain tax incentives.

The realization of the public interest through donations and the manner of using tax incentives in the sports is specially regulated by the Law on Sports, the Rulebook on the manner of using the means of tax incentives and the Law on Profit Tax. Namely, the Agency for youth and sports issues a voucher for using tax exemptions funds (which consists of reduction of the calculated profit tax for the amount of the donated funds, but not more that 50% of the calculated tax) on behalf of a certain sports entity, on the basis of which the donor is entitled to make donation of financial resources in the amount up to the amount determined in the voucher on a special purpose account of that particular sports entity. The use of the right to reduction of the calculated profit tax excludes the right to tax incentive of the profit tax in accordance to the Law on Donations and Sponsorships in Public Activities for donations in the sports.

The donor as tax payer that uses this tax exemption can donate to one sports entity of same type of sport. As an exception, the donor can donate to two sports entities of the same type of sport, only if one entity is a national sports federation and the other is a sports club or an active athlete competing in individual sports.

Published on 04.07.22

The new Data Protection Law (“DPL”) has been adopted and announced in 2020, following, almost the whole content of the General Data Protection Regulation Directive (“GDPR”), especially regarding the territorial scope of the law, the obligation for DPO appointment, the obligations of data controllers and data processors, the performance of data impact assessment, the notification upon data breach, etc..

Similar as GDPR, the DPL has determined for the data controllers and data processors, an 18-month period for compliance to its provisions. In addition, the same period has been aimed for adoption of the by-laws, so the Data Protection Agency (the legal successor of the Data Protection Directorate) (the “Agency”) has adopted such acts during May 2020, so the legal framework in this field has been completed. Changes to DPL has been adopted at the end of December 2021, but the same were aimed for terminologically compliance to the current provisions. In the same period, standard contractual clauses for the processing agreements concluded between controller-processor, as well as clauses for the purposes of data transfer towards third countries have been adopted by the Agency.

The prescribed period for compliance with the DPL has expired on August, 24 2021, and afterwards as announced by the Ministry of Justice of RNM, the same period has been extended for additional six months period when the targeted controllers and processors have not been subject of imposing fines by the Agency, in events then the Agency is aware (by its own initiation or as a result of filed request by third parties) that some of them are not in compliance to the provisions of DPL.