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to such acts, in order to ensure the effectiveness of EU law and respect of
the principle of legal security. An example of this practice can be found
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in the Law of 13 June 2003 on foreigners . Article 39 entitles the Head
of the OfÞce for Foreigners to issue, after internal consultation, a uniform
visa on the basis of Article 17(2) of the Convention implementing the
Schengen Agreement in cases listed in Annex 5 to the Common consular
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instructions on visas for the diplomatic missions and consular posts .
VI. STATEMENT ON THE APPROXIMATION OF THE DRAFT
NATIONAL LEGAL ACT WITH THE EU LAW

Statement on the Approximation of the national legal act with the EU law
is one of the instruments which establishes whether the draft legal act is
approximated with the Stabilisation and Association Agreement as well
as how and with which EU legal acts it is approximated and the extent of
approximation (fully and partially approximated and not approximated).

The obligation to complete the Statement on the Approximation is de-
Þned in the Rules of Procedure of the Government of the Republic of
Macedonia, providing that proposers when communicating the mate-
rials to the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, they should be
accompanied by a Statement on the Approximation of the legal acts with
the EU legislation, and for laws and bylaws with a correlation table.

Completion of the Statement on the Approximation of national legal acts
with the EU legislation should be practiced even in cases where national
legal act in question has been already accompanied by prior Statement
on the Approximation with a relevant EU act, and now being amended
only from the aspect of national requirements without affecting the pro-
visions in which European legislation has been previously transposed.
Namely, in that case a Statement on the Approximation is Þlled in only
in boxes 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 indicating that the national legal act is not sub-
ject to approximation with the EU law, but appropriate amendments are
made of national character in accordance with the national legislation,
and that the legal act concerned has been already approximated with the
EU law according to the Statement on the Approximation of the basic

56 Dz. U. z 2006 r. Nr 234, poz. 1694.
57 OJ C 326, 22.12.2005, p. 1.

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