International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

The aim of the paper is to analyze the degree of practicing transparency and accountability through the index of active transparency by the units of local self-government (municipalities) from the South-west planning region in the Republic of N. Macedonia, with the possibility of free access to public information, the deadline within which the units responded to the request, accountability, integrity, budgetary and financial transparency, as well as the information on the competence and services offered by the units themselves.