North Macedonia's progress in strengthening measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing

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Overall North Macedonia has made some progress since its Mutual Evaluation was adopted.

Its technical compliance with the FATF Recommendations has been re-rated as follows:

  • Recommendation 16 is re-rated from Partially Compliant to Largely Compliant
  • Recommendation 18 is re-rated from Partially Compliant to Largely Compliant
  • Recommendation 25 is re-rated from Partially Compliant to Largely Compliant

North Macedonia will remain in enhanced follow-up and will continue to report back to MONEYVAL on progress to strengthen its implementation of AML/CFT measures. North Macedonia is expected to report back within one year’s time.

North Macedonia Follow-Up Report

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North-Macedonia-FUR-2025.pdf
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Earlier reports

  • 16 Jul 2008

    Mutual Evaluation of "the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" is a member of Moneyval, the assessment of the implementation of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT standards in "the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" was conducted by Moneyval.

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