Detailed Implementation Timeline: Ohrid Agreement
Implementations
Detailed Implementation Timeline – 2001
Constitutional amendments were supposed to be made within 45 days of agreement, but it was made in 16 November 2001, after three months.
Detailed Implementation Timeline – 2002
Law on Local Self-Government was passed in 22 January 2002. This did not meet the stipulated deadline of 45 days.
Law on municipal boundaries was not passed within the stipulated timeline, by the end of 2002.
As stipulated, by the end of 2002, the assembly adopted a revised electoral district law.
A donor conference was held in March 2002 and raised 307 million Euro. European commission pleaded 104 million Euro of which 32.54 million Euro was for reconstruction and rehabilitation of areas affected directly by the conflict.
The first amendment (November 2001) of the constitution enabled the Albanian language in the rules of procedures of the assembly. Macedonia started an internationally monitored census (including Council of Europe and the European Commission) on 1 November 2002, to determine the size of the ethnic groups. According to the agreement, this should have been done by the end of October 2002.
Detailed Implementation Timeline – 2003
No developments observed this year.
Detailed Implementation Timeline – 2004
Law on municipal boundaries was not passed within the stipulated timeline, by the end of 2002. On 8 August 2004, the parliament adopted the bill that would redraw the municipal boundaries and give ethnic Albanian minority greater power.
Detailed Implementation Timeline – 2005
No developments observed this year.
Detailed Implementation Timeline – 2006
Representation from all ethnic groups in the police service lagged behind. By 2006, the representation of ethnic Albanian was only 16%.
Detailed Implementation Timeline – 2007
No further developments observed.
Detailed Implementation Timeline – 2008
No further developments observed.
Detailed Implementation Timeline – 2009
No further developments observed.
Detailed Implementation Timeline – 2010
No further developments observed.