North Macedonia 7.2.1

Cultural creativity is supported on the state level in several ways:

• direct budgetary support for projects of national interest through annual public competition in all cultural fields, regardless of the status of the institution or the artist;
• direct budgetary contributions for independent artists (retirement, health insurance etc.);
• indirect support through tax and customs deductions; and
• ad hoc support from the reserve budgetary funds for projects outside the competition procedure.