The Law on Determining an Additional Condition for Execution of Public Office, envisaging names of secret service informers to be publicly revealed, enters into force as of Tuesday.

The law, universally known as the Lustration Law, covers the period up until 2006, when the implementation of the Law on Free Access to Information started. A novelty has been incorporated into the law envisaging people who acquired capital in state-owned enterprises, in line with the Law on Transformation of Enterprises with Social Capital, to be lustrated.

In compliance with the new law, all former and current holders of public offices, the president of the state, the premier, ministers, deputies, judges, public prosecutors, the ombudsman, lawyers, notaries, mediators, directors of public enterprises, members of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MANU), military officials, staffers in higher education institutions are obliged to submit a statement to the Lustration Commission.

Journalists, clergypersons, non-governmental organisations and members of political parties under the new provisions are not obliged to submit statements to the commission.

This is a second amendment to the Lustration Law. The fresh law is more concrete after the Constitutional Law in March revoked 12 controversial provisions stemming from the previous law on lustration adopted in 2008.