OPINIONS, ANALYSES AND RECOMMENDATIONS

• - Recommended Fees for Literary Translations (by language pairs, genres, etc.) from foreign languages into the Macedonian, submitted to the Commission for Publishing Activity at the Ministry of Culture to be used in the preparation of the Regulations for fees for literary translations from foreign languages into the Macedonian language which are subsidized by the Ministry of Culture (2013).
  - Analysis of the Draft Law on Court Interpreters with recommendations for improvement, sent to the Ministry of Justice (2014)
  - Opinion on the need to introduce a self-employment model for non-regulated professions, submitted to the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy (2014)
  - Analysis of the negative and positive effects of the Law on Payment of Mandatory Social Insurance Contributions, submitted to the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy (2015)
  - Analysis submitted to the Commission for Combating Discrimination with an explanation of all the grounds on which we considered that the Law on Payment of Mandatory Social Security Contributions discriminates against freelance translators and interpreters (2015)
  - Request submitted to the Directorate for the Protection of Personal Data to intervene with the Fund for Pension and Disability Insurance of Macedonia, where applications for fees were submitted, in order to remove excessive and unnecessary requirements for personal data (copy of transaction account, copy of ID card or inspection ID, copy of bank statement of funds received) - requests for such data were soon withdrawn (2015)
  - Comments on the new Law on Public Procurement and preparation of the Guidelines for the Procurement of Translation and Interpretation Services, submitted to the Bureau for Public Procurement (2017)
  - Opinion on the need to regulate the profession and establish a Registry of the activity, delivered to the Ministry of Culture (2017)
  - Position of ZPRM regarding the frequent omission of the literary translator in the announcements of new editions of translated literature. The position has been announced publicly (2017)
  - Position of ZPRM on the occasion of the articles on the treatment of the interpreter in the "Wild Village" case, published publicly (2017)
  - Opinion on the readiness of court translators for written translation and interpretation in the courtroom and on the problems of the courts to find quality translators and interpreters, delivered in a conversation with the president of the Basic Court Skopje 1 (2018)
  - Analysis of the Draft Law on Public Procurement with regard to the provisions for translation services, presented at a public hearing on the Draft Law organized by the Ministry of Finance (2018)
  - Survey/research among state authorities on writing personal names in official documents (through the mechanism for free access to public information) (October/December 2018)
  - Opinion on improving the cooperation of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia with the civil society sector 2018 - 2020, submitted in a public debate organized by the Civic Resource Center (2019)
  - Proposed amendments to the Court Rules of Procedure and Price List of court translation and interpretation services, submitted to the Ministry of Justice (2019)
  - Update of the Proposal for self-employment, submitted to the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy (2019)
  - Meeting of representatives from ZPRM with the State Secretary of the Secretariat for European Affairs regarding the Guidelines for Public Procurement of Translation and Interpretation, (2019)
  - Tariffs for Court Translation and Interpretation, submitted to the president of the Basic Court Skopje 1, (2019)
  - Guidelines for Public Procurement of Translation and Interpretation, submitted to the Bureau of Public Procurement, (2019)
  - Project-proposal for Court Translation and Interpretation (Protocol/Courtroom Interpretation Workshop, Manual for Court Translation with Glossary, Training for Court Interpreters), submitted to the Academy of Judges and Public Prosecutors, (2019)
  - MATA Proposal on protection of translators and interpreters, in connection with the measures prepared by the Government to reduce the consequences of the crisis caused by the SARS-Cov-2 virus, (2020)
  - MATA signed the online petition to the European Commission for more ambitious budget measures that will enable professionals from these fields to overcome the crisis, (2020)
  - Recommendations for Remote Interpreting in Pandemic submitted to the Government. The Government reported that it has submitted these Recommendations to all institutions in order to respect them when organizing events with simultaneous or consecutive interpretation (June 2020)
  - Declaration about the Macedonian language (in 12 languages) published on social media, on the MATA website and sent to all contacts (November 2020)
  - A letter to the Government and to the MLSP and a meeting with a representative of the Prime Minister requesting that freelance translators be taken into account in one of the assistance measures (on several occasions during 2020)
  - The Proposal for Self-Employment of the Non-Regulated Professions is sent to the Government and to MLSP (2020)
  - Proposals for amending the Court Rules of Procedure in relation to court translation, submitted to the Minister of Justice (January 2021)