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ERCUOBRNIOKAMY
Pavle Gacov
The author is President
of the Assembly of
Accountants’ Association of
the Republic of Macedonia
Please – Slow down a little bit!!!
CHANGING THE LAWS AT A
FIFTH GEAR SPEED
Running in circles, while Running in circles, while trying py in the domestic legal system. We witness
trying to fully comply to fully comply with the ever endemic phenomenon of frequent and reg-
with the ever changing changing regulations, new and ular changing of the regulations that affect
regulations, new and amended ones, not to forget the business. No special research is needed
amended ones, not to the abolished ones, is a regular to support this pragmatic conclusion, one
forget the abolished “Macedonian business discipline”? should only be an active consumer of the
ones, is a regular law in practice, especially the law that af-
“Macedonian business Nevertheless, the effects are devastat- fects the business environment.
discipline”? ing, andone may say that fatigue started to
dominate. The glass is more than full now One may also look at the erosion in the
with the last “tsunami” of hundreds of new Macedonian business laws, which lasts for
amendments to laws in order to make them years, from the humorous point of view.
compatible with the new Misdemeanorand What is the ranking of Macedonia with re-
with a dozen of other laws. gard to the frequency in changing the laws/
regulations? If we want to praise ourselves,
Devastation of the law – probably we are ahead of all other countries
Bad laws are being substituted also in this area. But, should we compete
by even worse laws in this “discipline”, and on the top of it, be
winners? Isn’t it time to slow down a bit?
Something strange is happening with the
Macedonian legal system. Here, we are not “Emotional”, instead of rational
talking about the (in)dependence of the ju- regulations are being proposed
dicial system or about the staff in this sec-
tor. We leave that to those more competent We see that there are regulations that
than us. Our intention is to point out the are being introduced in an emotional rath-
massive and frequent changes in the regu- erthan rational, manner. They are proposed
lations, whichaffect the business directly, after alleged requests have been received
as a very weak aspect of the business cli- from the “field”, they are created on the
mate. From the business players’ point of basis of group business and other lucrative
view, no special legal expertise is needed to interests, adopted amendments are being
conclude that there is a condition of entro- changed again before the effects from them
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