EU-RELATED LAWS TO BE RATIFIED BY 15 SEPTEMBER
admin1 – July 27, 2009 – 2:00pm

The three laws that the EU set as a condition for Macedonia to receive a date for start of the negotiations for membership will enter an assembly procedure as of Tuesday, after the Government accepted the opposition's remarks about the disputable points. The bill on financing the political parties, which is considered least "problematic", could be put on the assembly agenda on Tuesday, as there is initial agreement on this bill among all parliamentary parties. The party leaders agreed at their meeting on Friday that the Assembly should ratify the other two laws - the bill on the Assembly and the bill on the state administration - by 15 September. As a result, the parliamentarians' annual leave will be shortened and, to ensure a swift procedure, no amendments to these bills will submitted. The parliamentary parties and Assembly Chairman Trajko Veljanoski will define the assembly agenda for August and September at their coordinating meeting today.