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The global objective of the project was to strengthen the legal and operational base of FYR Macedonia public veterinary services with a view to meeting the government's obligations under the Stabilization and Association Agreement, thereby improving the country's animal and veterinary public health status and safeguard its trade relations.
The specific outputs of the project were:

• Analysis of the legal framework (in particular the requirements of the FYR  Macedonian constitution to have any restriction of individual freedoms of the citizans laid down in primary legislation); Analysis and extraction of EU legal veterinary documents; Elaboration of a long-term legal approximation programme to the EU veterinary acquis
• Drafting of a new Veterinary Law

- Chapter One on the organisation and operation of the veterinary sector, comprising, inter alia, the State veterinary service with field and border inspections; Integration of the "official veterinarian" into the law; Intergration of the "approved veterinarian"; the national veterinary reference laboratory; the establishment of crisis centres and contingency (crisis) plans in preparation for the outbreak of epizootic diseases; the information system and the veterinary chamber

- Chapter Two on National Disease control and eradication

- Chapter Three contains a comprehensive collection of EU veterinary acquis provisions on the import and transit of animals and products of animal origin

- Chapter Four provides for the absorpion of the new legal framework into the FYR Macedonian "Annual order of the State for preventing and eradication contagious and parasitic diseases in animals"

- Chapter Five, Supervision, Chapter Six, Sanctions and Chapter Seven, Final Provisions are integrating the new legal substance into the FYR Macedonian veterinay structures and legal norms

• Preparation of an Impact study, Preparation of tables of correspondence , Public presentation of the draft law, Preparation of a Certified translation from English into Macedonian of the draft Veterinary Law

• Preparation of a new EU-Acquis compliant Veterinary Law
• Assessment of the cost of implementation, institutional implications and training requirements
• Preparation of the format, framework, estimate of expert time and other input requirements for the drafting of priority secondary legislation to be based on the new Veterinary Law. This included a proposal for structure, mechanism and workflow model for a legal unit in the Veterinary Directorate(VD) capable of managing further alignment with the Acquis with a minimum of outside direction.