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certain laws and bylaws are planned to be adopted. Furthermore, based
on the nature of the EU acts that are to be transposed in the national
legislation, and taking into consideration the subject matter, a new law
is proposed to be adopted, amending of the existing laws in the case
where the subject matter is already partially regulated, or adoption of
certain bylaws necessary for the transposition.
In the procedure related to amendment to a national legal act in which
certain EU acts have been already transposed, completely or partially,
one should always take into consideration and assess how the pro-
posed solution will reßect the remaining provisions in the national law
in which the EU acts have been transposed.
Instruments used for that purpose in the legislation of the Republic of
Macedonia are Statement on the Approximation and correlation tables
MK-EU and EU-MK. Namely, the Statement on the Approximation
and correlation tables accompany a national legal act from the sectoral
ministry that is obliged to draft them together with the national legal
act, and afterwards those instruments along with the draft national le-
gal act is communicated to the Secretariat for Legislation for review
and it provides Opinion on the Statement on the Approximation with
Correlation Table of the legal act so that the draft national legal act is
further communicated to the Government of the Republic of Mace-
donia and subjected to governmental procedure (if an act that is to be
adopted by the Government is in question), or to the Assembly of the
Republic of Macedonia (if law is in question).

4. TRANSPOSITION OF REGULATIONS IN THE NATIONAL
LEGAL SYSTEM

A Regulation is EU legal act that is directly applicable for the Member
States in accordance with the principles of supremacy and direct appli-
cability. Only those provisions of the EU law that are not to be trans-
posed are directly applicable, while the direct effect of the EU law has
characteristic of directly applicable norm. Therefore, any individual
may, in national proceedings, invoke directly to the EU law to oppose
or avoid application of a national norm that is not in conformity with
the EU law. All provisions in the EU law do not have direct effect.

The above stated does not mean that the Member States should not or

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