Sensitive or controversial issues

• Author: Biljana Kotevska
• Pages: 74-74

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11SENSITIVE OR CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES

11.1Potential breaches of the directives at the national level

The new Anti-Discrimination Law removed all of the breaches of the directives as per the

old ADL. Thus, there are no breaches of the directives.

11.2Other issues of concern

Two main issues of concern remain. The first one is the fact that the country currently has

no functioning equality body. This was elaborated in detail in Chapter 7 (section d) of this

report. The second one is the issue of the lack of internal harmonisation of the national

legislation, identified in the previous report and in a 2016 analysis.277. The harmonisation

was identified as a general strategic goal of both the ‘National Strategy on Equal

Opportunities and Non-Discrimination on Grounds of Ethnicity, Age, Mental and Physical

Disability and Gender 2012-нлмр’ and of its successorз the ‘National Strategy on Equality

and Non-discrimination (2016-нлнлд’.278 Article 51of the new ADL also prescribes an

obligation for all other national laws to be aligned with the ADL within two years from the

date of entry into force of this law. In order to support the harmonisation process, a new

analysis was prepared looking at possible models and approaches for conducting

harmonisation.279

277 Kotevska, B. (2016), Analysis of the harmonization of national equality and non-discrimination legislation,

Skopje, OSCE and CPAD.

278 Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (2016), National Strategy on Equality and Non-discrimination (2016-

2020).

279 Najchevska, M. (2019), Analysis of the harmonization of the legislation in the area of anti-discrimination,

OSCE.