Skopje, 17 December 2025 (MIA) - Drafting is underway of a new national spatial plan at the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning. The plan is expected to be adopted in 2026 and will remain in effect until 2040.

The head of the Spatial Planning Agency, Aleksandar Gelevski, said they have prepared a methodology for the procedure of the spatial plan's adoption.

“The planning period is expected to be until 2040. We expect the draft plan to be adopted next year. It needs to pass through parliamentary procedure and be adopted,” Gelevski said Wednesday at an event marking the Agency’s 20th anniversary.

According to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport Aleksandar Nikoloski, the government expects the new spatial plan to be adopted through a transparent process and set out a path for the country’s development until 2040.

“I expect the new spatial plan to be adopted in a transparent process, and it should resolve numerous dilemmas, open issues, and set out a path for the country’s development until 2040,” the Deputy Prime Minister said. 

Nikolovski said the new spatial plan is also expected to provide a new infrastructural concept for the country’s development.

“I would like to highlight the significance of the new spatial plan due to the following reasons: Macedonia as a natural intersection between Southeastern and Central Europe, it has a geostrategic importance as a result of the location of the East-West and North-South corridors, i.e., corridors VIII, X, and X-d. Then the proximity of the southern ports and the role of a transit country for transport, energy, and trade. With the current global challenges, we can see how important it is for Macedonia to establish energy connections and in that sense, the construction of the interconnector with Greece, as well as the planned interconnector with Serbia, will mean that Macedonia will become an energy intersection as well," Nikoloski said at the event.

The head of the Agency, Gelevski, told journalists the old spatial plan will remain in effect until the new one is adopted, even though its planning period has expired.