Intelligence Agency of Republic of Macedonia

Intelligence Agency
Агенција за разузнавање (АР)
Agencija za razuznavanje (AR)
Agency overview
Formed April 1, 1995 (1995-04-01)
Preceding agencies
Headquarters Skopje, Macedonia
Motto none
Employees Classified
Annual budget Classified
Agency executive
  • Nakje Chulev, Director
Website www.ia.mk

The Intelligence Agency of Republic of Macedonia was set up as a separate body of state administration under the Law on the Intelligence Agency adopted in April 1995.

Competence

The Intelligence Agency is competent to collect data and information of relevance for the security and defense of the Republic of Macedonia and the economic, political and other interests of the state. The Agency analyses and researches the data and information and is obliged to inform the President of the Republic of Macedonia, Government of the Republic of Macedonia and other state bodies on issues of relevance for their field of work. The Act on the manner of information is adopted by the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, upon prior consent of the President of the Republic of Macedonia.

Civil control over the Agency

The Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia oversees the work of the Agency through a corresponding commission. The Commission submits a report to the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia about the activity performed once a year at the most. Prior to submitting the report the Commission is obliged to communicate the same to the Director of the Agency.[1]

Organizational structure

Directors

# Portrait Name Mandate commenced on Mandate finished on Political Party
1991-1995 see State Security Administration
1 Vlado Popovski 1995 ? SDSM
2 Aleksa Stamenkovski ? ? SDSM
3 Dragi Grozdanovski 2000 2002 VMRO-DPMNE
4 Dosta Dimovska 2002 2003 VMRO-DPMNE
5 Dragi Grozdanovski
2nd term
2003 2004 VMRO-DPMNE
6 Lazar Kitanovski 2004 2006 SDSM
7 Kire Naumov 2006 2007 SDSM
8 Viktor Dimovski 2007 2009 VMRO-DPMNE
9 Aleksandar Bocinov 2009 2013 VMRO-DPMNE
10 Nakje Chulev 2013 incumbent VMRO-DPMNE

Budget

The budget of the agency for 2012 is in the flowing web address

See also

Reference list

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