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Industry has an important role for the economy. Contemporary industrial policy and regulation are closely linked with the environment. Almost all industrial sectors cause threats to the environment in all phases such as: projecting, designing, preparation, supplying with raw materials, manufacturing, energy consumption, assembling, storage, packaging, transport, and usage of final products and all other phases of life circulation of the products. This produces a number of dangers for the environment. Implementation of environmental policy and regulation leads to creation of green economy and green industry which means that modern industry production has to satisfy environmental standards according to the principles of sustainable development. North Macedonian, as candidate state for a membership of the EU started to transpose EU environmental legal regulation and policy in 2004. This results with stipulation of standards that lead to the environmentally friendly green industry. Also, there are adopted strategic documents in the field of industrial policy that are in compliance with the environmental requirements. The problems appear with practical implementation and industrial sector is not completely harmonized with environmental standards, even there are some positive results. Implementation of environmental standards requires significant financial recourses which should be provided by industrial sector, international donors at the first place from EU funds and state authorities. The main aim of this paper is to analyze the relations between industrial policy and regulation in North Macedonia from the aspect of environment and its harmonization with EU practices, regulation and standards. Additional aim is to give some recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Money laundering is a joint problem of the mankind. Along with some other aspects of underground economic activity, rough estimates have been put forward to give sense of the scale of the problem. According to a study conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in 2009 criminal proceeds amounted to 3.6% of global GDP, with 2.7% (or USD 1.6 trillion) being laundered. However, these estimates should be treated with caution. They are intended to give just an approximation of the magnitude of the problem. Due to the illegal nature of the transactions, precise statistics are not available and it is therefore impossible to produce a definitive estimate of the amount of money that is globally laundered every year. This study analyzes the statistical data gathered for three neighboring countries (Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Republic of Slovenia) related to the number of suspicious transactions reported annually, the corresponding activities taken, and the results achieved, the main purpose being exploring the effectiveness of the money laundering prevention systems in the selected countries. The study concludes that even though all the countries are similar with respect to territory, population, and structure and organization of their money laundering prevention systems, the results achieved from analysis and activities taken based on suspicious transactions reporting are significantly diverse from country to country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]