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The Ministry of Culture has appointed a working group, composed of Ministry's officials, academics, civil society representatives, and legal practitioners, to prepare a new draft Law on Foundations.

Promoting a policy framework for NGO-government cooperation.

This is the first international legal instrument that targets the legislator, the national authorities and the NGOs themselves.

Conference on the legal fraework of CSOs, irganised by the VU-University and the University of Amsterdam.

. At the event, ECNL delivered a presentation on the enabling tax environment for NGOs and headed a session on the enabling environment for corporate philanthropy.

The Manual was prepared by local experts in collaboration with ECNL.

The study visit provided international expertise on cooperation mechanisms and European and Hungarian best practices on regulating NGO work, sources of NGO income and tax benefits and mechanisms of NGO-government cooperation.

ECNL and ICNL worked closely with USAID/Croatia and DECIM on the event: helped identify experts, facilitated workshops and delivered presentations on NIS and CEE experiences.

ECNL supported the Civil Platform of Macedonia in organizing the event and held several presentations and workshops.