Car Dealer Compliance in North Macedonia

The rules for car adverts in North Macedonia

7 rules decide what a dealer in North Macedonia has to show on the car, in adverts and in financing examples. Each one, and what it asks of you:

Rulebook 65/2013
Rulebook on the information available to the consumer on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions in the sale of new passenger cars: label at the car
Authority Ministry of Economy (issuer); State Market Inspectorate enforces
Every new passenger car you display, sell or lease, at your site or at a fair, needs a label on or next to it. The A4 label (297 x 210 mm, white with clear black text) gives the make, the type, variant and version, the fuel, the official fuel consumption in l/100 km or km/l with one decimal and the official CO2 emissions in g/km as a whole number, closed by two statutory sentences in Macedonian: one says the free fuel consumption and CO2 guide is available at every point of sale, the other that driving style and non-technical factors shape consumption and that CO2 is the main greenhouse gas.
Rulebook 65/2013
Rulebook 65/2013: poster or screen per brand at the point of sale
Authority Ministry of Economy (issuer); State Market Inspectorate enforces
For each brand you sell new, the showroom needs a poster of at least 70 x 50 cm or a screen of at least 25 x 32 cm. Models are grouped by fuel and listed in order of rising CO2 emissions, with two statutory sentences that are worded differently from the ones on the label. A poster is updated every six months, a screen every three.
Rulebook 65/2013
Rulebook 65/2013: promotional literature
Authority Ministry of Economy (issuer); State Market Inspectorate enforces
All printed promotional material for a new car must state its official fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, easy to read and at least as visible as the main information, so that a reader skimming the page still sees them. For several models you give every value or the range. Pure brand advertising without a specific model is exempt, and the rulebook covers printed material only.
Vehicles Act
Vehicles Act
Authority State Market Inspectorate, procedure under Article 87
The law behind the rulebook forbids misleading consumption and CO2 information in any medium, which includes your website and social media. Breaches are fined at EUR 500 for the company and EUR 150 for the responsible person, in denars.
Consumer Credit Agreements Act
Law on Consumer Protection in Consumer Credit Agreements
Authority National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia (NBRM) and Ministry of Economy
As soon as an advert names an interest rate or any cost figure, it must give a representative example: the interest rate, fixed or variable, with all charges, the total amount of credit, the annual percentage rate of charge (APR), the term, the cash price and down payment, the total amount payable and the instalment. Everything must be shown in a clear, precise and easily visible way, and a compulsory insurance with costs not known in advance has to be named next to the APR. North Macedonia prescribes no warning sentence.
Consumer Credit Agreements Act
Law on Consumer Protection in Consumer Credit Agreements
Authority National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia (NBRM) and Ministry of Economy (register of credit intermediaries)
A dealer who arranges car loans acts as a credit intermediary and needs a notarised written power of attorney from the lender. In every advert he must say what he is authorised to do, in particular whether he works with one lender or with several.
Consumer Credit Agreements Act
Consumer Credit Agreements Act
Authority National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia (NBRM), reference rate for the statutory default interest
The annual percentage rate of charge may not exceed five times the statutory default interest rate, which follows the reference rate the NBRM sets every six months. An example above that ceiling must not be advertised.

Car dealer compliance in North Macedonia comes down to one rulebook and two laws: Rulebook 65/2013 on fuel consumption and CO2 information for new passenger cars, Article 5-a of the Vehicles Act, and the consumer credit law for anyone who advertises a monthly instalment. The Rulebook asks for a white A4 label at or next to every new car you offer for sale or lease, a 70 x 50 cm poster or a screen per brand in the showroom, and the official consumption and CO2 figures in every printed brochure, price sign and advert. There is no A-to-G class scale in North Macedonia: what counts is the official figure, in the right unit, with the two statutory sentences in Macedonian, word for word. Vehicle Hub keeps those values on the car itself and prints the label, the poster and the exposé from them, so the figure on the windscreen and the figure in your brochure are the same number.

Set the main market of your branch to North Macedonia and Vehicle Hub applies the Macedonian rule set to every car: prices in denars with VAT, the fuel named in the words of the Rulebook (motor petrol, diesel, LPG, natural gas, hybrid), and the statutory block in Macedonian even when you print an English exposé for a foreign buyer. The same values appear on each car's page on your website through the Vehicle Hub widgets, and the mandatory information page explains how the checks work. North Macedonia is one of 33 markets with its own rule set; the overview of all countries shows the others. Vehicle Hub applies the rules; it is not legal advice.

What the Rulebook 65/2013 label looks like

North Macedonia has no official label artwork and no class scale. The rulebook sets the format, A4 in white with clear black text, and the content: make, type, variant and version, the fuel, the official fuel consumption and the official CO2 emissions, followed by the two statutory sentences in Macedonian. Vehicle Hub prints that content from the car's own data, in the order the rulebook lists it, and only once every value is there.

Label for a new petrol car in North Macedonia, printed by Vehicle Hub: make, version, fuel (motor petrol), consumption in l/100 km, CO2 in g/km and the two statutory sentences; the real label is printed in Macedonian.

Mandatory details in North Macedonia

Make, type, variant and version of the car
Fuel named in the rulebook's words (motor petrol, diesel, LPG, natural gas, hybrid)
Official fuel consumption in l/100 km or km/l, one decimal
Official CO2 emissions in g/km, whole number
The two statutory label sentences in Macedonian, word for word
The two statutory poster sentences, worded as in Article 8
Consumption and CO2 as visible as the main information in print
Consumption and CO2 in online adverts, not misleading
Representative example with interest rate, APR, term, cash price, down payment, instalment and total amount
Whether you work with one lender or several
Annual percentage rate within the legal ceiling

What you get

The Macedonian label from the car's own data
Open a new car and print its A4 label: make, version, fuel, official consumption and CO2, and both statutory sentences in Macedonian. No template to fill in and no sentence to copy from the gazette.
A showroom poster in the 70 x 50 cm format
Vehicle Hub prints a poster in the format the rulebook asks for, with its two statutory sentences, from the values you already keep. Hang it in the showroom, and print a fresh one at least every six months or when your new-car range changes.
Macedonian where the law says so
The statutory block stays in Macedonian on every label, price sign and exposé, even when you print an English exposé for a buyer from abroad. Fuels carry the rulebook's own words.
A check before anything goes out
A label prints only when every value is there; otherwise Vehicle Hub names the missing one. On your website, a new car without consumption or CO2 gets a clear flag, so you fix it before a buyer or an inspector sees it.
Car loan examples that follow Macedonian law
Once KIMISUITE has released financing for North Macedonia, the Loan Calculator shows the full representative example, the APR at least as large as the instalment, and your one-lender or several-lenders sentence.
Denar prices with VAT, everywhere
Set your branch to denars and its VAT rate once. Price sign, exposé and website show the same price in MKD, and the exposé adds the net amount.

Print your first Macedonian label today

Add one new car with its certificate values or import a few, set your branch to North Macedonia and print the label. If a value is missing, Vehicle Hub tells you which one before anything reaches the windscreen.

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How to get started

Set the main market of your branch to North Macedonia
Open Vehicle Hub in your KIMISUITE workspace, choose North Macedonia as the branch's main market and set the currency to denars with your VAT rate. From then on the Macedonian rule set decides what every car needs.
Bring in your stock
Import your cars from mobile.de, your dealer system or a CSV or XML feed, or add them with the creation assistant. Imported consumption and CO2 values count as confirmed by you.
Check the values North Macedonia asks for
On each new car, look over the official consumption and CO2 from the certificate of conformity. Vehicle Hub shows you what a complete label still lacks, car by car.
Print the label and poster, then publish
Print the A4 label for the car and the poster for the showroom, and put the car on your website. The car's page shows the same values as the paper on the windscreen.

Pricing

The Macedonian rule set, the label, the showroom poster, the exposé and the Loan Calculator are part of Vehicle Hub, which starts at a fixed monthly price (see pricing) per dealership workspace. There is no separate label tool and no charge per printed sheet.

Your sales staff, the person who photographs the cars and the owner all work in the same workspace for that one price.

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Is it the right fit?

A good fit if

Authorised representatives and importer-dealers in North Macedonia who sell new cars and need the Rulebook 65/2013 label
Multi-brand dealers who print brochures and price signs and want the consumption and CO2 figures right every time
Dealers who arrange car loans through one or several banks and want an advert example that follows the consumer credit law
Dealers in Skopje, Bitola or Tetovo who also sell to buyers abroad and need an English exposé with the Macedonian block intact

Not the right fit if

Dealers who want Vehicle Hub to publish their cars on Pazar3.mk, Reklama5 or Avtooglasi.com.mk; Vehicle Hub imports stock, it does not post to these portals
A car lot that only sells used cars which already had an owner and never needs a label
Manufacturers looking for a tool to produce the fuel consumption guide the rulebook asks of them
Anyone who needs legal advice on a specific case; Vehicle Hub applies the rules, a lawyer answers questions about them

Frequently asked questions

What does car dealer compliance in North Macedonia require for a new car?

A white A4 label at or next to the car with its official fuel consumption and CO2, a poster or screen per brand in the showroom, and the same figures in all printed advertising. The duties come from Rulebook 65/2013, which rests on Article 5-a of the Vehicles Act. Vehicle Hub prints the label, the poster and the exposé from the car's data.

Does the Macedonian label use an energy class from A to G?

No. Rulebook 65/2013 has no class scale and no official artwork. It asks for the official consumption with one decimal, CO2 in whole grams per kilometre and two statutory sentences, on white A4 with black text.

Do I need the label for used cars on my used-car lot?

Only for cars that are still new: a car counts as new until it has been sold to someone who did not buy it for resale. A used car that already had an owner is outside the duty, and so are special-purpose vehicles such as ambulances, hearses, motorhomes and wheelchair-accessible cars, as well as two- and three-wheelers.

Are online adverts in North Macedonia covered by the rulebook?

The rulebook itself covers printed material only. The Vehicles Act, Article 5-a, still forbids misleading consumption and CO2 information in any medium, so Vehicle Hub shows the values on each car's page on your website and flags a new car whose values are missing.

How do plug-in hybrids and electric cars appear on the label?

A plug-in hybrid carries the weighted combined consumption and CO2 from its certificate of conformity and is labelled as a hybrid. An electric car shows 0.0 l/100 km and 0 g/km, with the electricity consumption in kWh/100 km when you have entered it.

What must a car financing advert in North Macedonia show?

A representative example as soon as you name a rate or a cost: interest rate, total credit, APR, term, cash price, down payment, instalment and total amount payable. As a credit intermediary you also say whether you work with one lender or several, and the APR must stay within five times the statutory default interest. Vehicle Hub shows the example once KIMISUITE has released financing for North Macedonia and you have filled in your lender details.

Who enforces these rules, and who looks after customer data?

The State Market Inspectorate enforces the label and advertising rules and can fine a company EUR 500. Customer data from your enquiries falls under the Law on Personal Data Protection, supervised by the Personal Data Protection Agency.

Do I need an Albanian version of the label?

No. The rulebook prescribes the statutory sentences in Macedonian only, and the language law is addressed to public bodies, not to dealer labels. You may add Albanian information voluntarily, but the Macedonian text is the one that counts.