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HANDBOOK ON TRANSPOSITION OF THE EU LAW INTO
THE LEGISLATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
Respected,

Within the framework of the Twinning-Project on approximation of
the legislation in the Þeld of Internal Market, funded by the European
Agency for Reconstruction and Development, realized in the period
2004 / 2005 between Republic of Slovenia and Republic of Macedonia,
the Secretariat for Legislation within the Government of the Republic
of Macedonia and the OfÞce for Legislation within the Government
of the Republic of Slovenia developed a Handbook on the Method
of Transposition of EU Legislation into Macedonian Legislation, and
based on experiences of the Republic of Slovenia and then situation in
the Republic of Macedonia in the process of harmonization of national
legislation and anticipating the EU candidate country status.

In 2008 the Secretariat for Legislation developed and published the
Second Edition of the Handbook on Transposition of EU legislation
into Macedonian Legislation. In 2010 the Third Edition was published
which was a result of the acquired practical experiences in the mean-
time of transposing the European legislation into the legislation of the
Republic of Macedonia.

It is a great honour and pleasure, to present to you the Fourth Edition,
which is being published six years after the third edition of the Hand-
book, and this fourth edition contains the experiences gathered in the
transposition process of the law of the EU member-states like Poland and
Croatia, and this is due to the Twinning Project “Further strengthening
of the organizational and institutional capacities for the EU integration
process” and it also includes the newly acquired practical experiences of
the Secretariat for Legislation in the process of transposition of the law.

The process of transposition of the law means incorporation i.e. adop-
tion of the European legislation in the national legal acts on the one
hand; and on the other hand approximation of the legislation of the Re-
public of Macedonia with the EU legislation. This process was not and
is not easy, it is followed by a number of dilemmas and issues and at
the same time it is continuous learning from experiences of the Mem-
ber States. The process of adoption of the EU legislation is a stage in

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