Stabilization and Association Agreement – A new type of contract, different from the Association Agreement, which legally identifies the attitude of the stabilization and association of the countries of the Western Balkans with the EC and EU Member States. The first such agreement concludes the Republic of Macedonia. In the light of the role, the RM has during the NATO attacks on fry, 8. 1999 The Council of Ministers invites the European Commission to prepare a report on raising contractual relations between the Republic of Macedonia and the EU. The conclusions of the Ministerial Council follow 31. ⅴ 1999. In which “the intention of the Commission was established at the forthcoming session of the Council of 21. ⅵ 1999 Submit a study-report on the eligibility of the Republic of Macedonia for starting negotiations on a new type of contract – Stabilization and Association Agreement “. At 24. And 2000 The Council of Ministers approves the Commission’s proposed guidelines for obtaining a mandate for the start of negotiations with the Republic of Macedonia. Negotiations open at 8. ⅲ 2000, at the time of the residence of EU External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten in Skopje. The agreement is initialed on the sidelines of the Zagreb Summit (24th ⅺ 2000), sign on the sidelines of the Ministerial Council in Luxembourg (10. ⅳ 2001) and after the completion of the necessary ratification procedures comes into force on 1. ⅳ 2004. Lit.: Tatiana Petrushevska, international legal aspects of the Stabilization Agreement and accompanying the Republic of Macedonia with EC and the Member States of the EU, “Business Law”, No. 3-4, Skopje, 2001. T. Petr.
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Кириличен напис СПОГОДБА ЗА СТАБИЛИЗАЦИЈА И АСОЦИЈАЦИЈА