Gold Leaf Europe received the only growing license approved in 2023 by the North Macedonia Legislature and issued by the the Ministry of Health, which oversees cannabis cultivation, processing, and sale in North Macedonia. The license was activated in January 2024.

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​See the North Macedonia Ministry of Health's decision on December 12, 2023 to issue the growing license, the growing license that was issued to Gold Leaf Europe LLC on December 21, 2023 and the public announcement on January 16, 2024 by the Ministry of Health of issuance of the growing license (all of which are in Macedonian along with their official English translations).

​Only two other growing licenses, to the project developers' knowledge, were issued by North Macedonia in 2024. It is not yet known how many have the potential to be issued in 2025.

GOLD LEAF EUROPE'S GACP AND GMP CERTIFIFICATIONS 

Gold Leaf Europe's principal is a U.S. construction firm owner and hydroponics greenhouse innovator. He has ensured from the onset that Gold Leaf's growing facility has been built in accordance with the Good Agricultural and Collecting Practices (GACP) for medicinal cannabis and the European Union's (EU's) pharmaceutical quality Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) standards. Only GMP certified facilities, which must be built at the onset to meet GMP standards, can export cannabis for outside the country.​

​Once the Gold Leaf facility is ready for operation and its final set of certification inspections are complete, it will operate as a GACP and GMP certified facility -- one of only a handful of GACP and CMP certified growing facilities in North Macedonia -- which will allow it to export to all non-U.S. countries worldwide where medicinal and recreational cannabis are legal, a total of 52 countries with a combined population exceeding 1 billion people. 

See Why GMP Certification is Important and the news article about the GMP growing facility in Skopje: North Macedonia Grower Receives Export License (click "I already am a subscriber" if you encounter a pop-up) which also has a North Macedonia growing license and is exporting its products as a result of being GMP certified.