North Macedonia ratified the European Social Charter on 31/03/2005, accepting 41 of the Charter’s 72 paragraphs. It ratified the Amending Protocol to the Charter on 31/03/2005. 

North Macedonia ratified the Revised European Social Charter on 6 January 2012, accepting 63 of the Charter’s 98 paragraphs.

It has signed but not ratified the Additional Protocol to the Charter and it has neither signed nor ratified the Additional Protocol providing for a system of Collective Complaints.

The Charter in domestic law

Automatic incorporation into domestic law based on the Constitution, Article 118: “The international agreements ratified in accordance with the Constitution are part of the internal legal order and cannot be changed by law”.


Country factsheets

The country factsheets include detailed information on the findings of the European Committee of Social Rights when monitoring the application of the Charter at national level, as well as examples of progress in the implementation of the rights protected by the Charter.

North Macedonia factsheet


Latest Ad hoc report by North Macedonia

See previous reports in respect of North Macedonia


Latest conclusions of the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR)

See all conclusions in respect of North Macedonia (HUDOC)


Table of accepted and non-accepted provisions by North Macedonia

Grey = Accepted provisions

1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 3.1
3.2 3.3 3.4 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 5 6.1 6.2 6.3
6.4 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 7.10 8.1
8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 9 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 11.1 11.2
11.3 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 14.1 14.2 15.1
15.2 15.3 16 17.1 17.2 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 19.1 19.2 19.3
19.4 19.5 19.6 19.7 19.8 19.9 19.10 19.11 19.12 20 21 22
23 24 25 26.1 26.2 27.1 27.2 27.3 28 29 30 31.1
31.2 31.3  

 

Meetings and reports on non-accepted provisions


Collective complaints procedure

North Macedonia has signed but not ratified the Additional Protocol to the Charter and it has neither signed nor ratified the Additional Protocol providing for a system of Collective Complaints.


Previous national reports by

1961 Charter