Secretariat for Legislation - Government of R.Macedonia

What Secretariat for Legislation - Government of R.Macedonia does

The Secretariat for Legislation (Секретаријат за законодавство) is a professional expert service of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia, headquartered at Sv. Kiril i Metodij No. 54, Skopje. Its core mandate is to ensure the consistency of the national legal system by verifying that laws and other regulations conform to the Constitution, international treaties, and EU law, and by monitoring the compatibility of national legislation with the EU acquis in support of North Macedonia's accession process. The institution operates as an independent gatekeeper for legislative quality, serving the Government, the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia, line ministries, and other state administrative bodies through formal review procedures and expert opinions.

The Secretariat's core products are its official website portal (sz.gov.mk), which publishes news, documents, public procurement notices, and transparency reports in Macedonian and Albanian, and two flagship methodological publications: the Handbook of Nomotechnical Rules for Drafting Laws and Other Normative Acts (bilingual Macedonian/Albanian, 2020 edition) and the 4th edition Handbook for Transposition of EU Legislation. The institution also publishes a List of Public Information under the Free Access to Information Act and maintains ISO 9001:2015 quality management certification. Operations are supported by approximately 20-24 staff comprising the Secretary, State Advisors, department heads, and assistants, with current Secretary Dr. Olivera Nechovska holding a doctorate in EU law. The organization has no commercial technology stack, no APIs, no AI/ML components, and no proprietary software products beyond its website and static digital manuals.

The Secretariat is funded entirely through the annual state budget of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia, with additional programme-specific financing from international donors including the EU (Twinning projects), USAID, NDI, the Embassy of Switzerland, and UNOPS. It generates no commercial revenue, provides services free of charge to state bodies and citizens, and operates exclusively within a single national jurisdiction. Distribution is direct-to-government through formal review processes, with secondary outreach via training workshops, memorandums of cooperation with universities and civil society, and participation in regional bodies such as ReSPA. The institution is not investable in the PE/VC sense but functions as a long-duration public infrastructure asset whose existence and budget are tied to the country's EU accession trajectory.

Name

Secretariat for Legislation - Government of R.Macedonia

Legal name

Влада на Република Северна Македонија - Секретаријат за законодавство

Website

https://sz.gov.mk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Secretariat for Legislation is a professional expert service of the Government of North Macedonia that ensures legal consistency, constitutional compliance, and EU acquis alignment of national legislation, serving ministries, the Assembly, and state administration through legislative drafting opinions and methodological guidance.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Legislative Services

NAICS

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921), Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined (92114), Legislative Bodies (92112), Other General Government Support (921190)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111), Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731)

akta.pro industry

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Executive Office / Cabinet Secretariat

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Central/Federal Government Administration

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State Legislature/Regional Assembly Administration

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/State/Provincial & Regional Government Administration

SECONDARYEDAGAGAK

Government, Public Policy & Regulatory Reference (Public Administration, Regulatory Guidance)

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Professional & Technical Reference Publishing

SECONDARYMPAJACAI

Government & Public Policy Publishing (Regulations, Gazettes, Legislative Tracking)

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Publishing (Books, News, Magazines)/Professional & Legal Publishing (Standards, Compliance, Reference)

SECONDARYBPADANAA

International Standards Development & Standardization Bodies

Business & Public Services/International Organizations & Development/International Standards, Policy & Regulatory Cooperation

Keywords

• Legislative drafting services
• EU law harmonization
• Constitutional compliance review
• Legal opinion services
• Nomotechnics methodology

Headquarters

HQ city

Skopje

HQ country

North Macedonia

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Budget Allocation: The Secretariat is funded through the annual state budget of the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia as a standalone expert service of the Government

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Secretariat for Legislation reviews draft laws and other regulations for consistency with the constitutional order, the legal system, and EU law, and issues formal opinions to ministries, the Government, and other state bodies. It also publishes authoritative methodological handbooks on legislative drafting (Nomotechnics Handbook) and EU transposition (EU Transposition Handbook), and maintains the public List of Information of Public Character.

Product overview

The Secretariat for Legislation of the Government of North Macedonia operates as a government administrative body rather than a commercial technology company. Its core offering is the official government website portal (http://sz.gov.mk/) which provides access to legislative information and public services. The main digital products include the EU Transposition Handbook (Прирачник за транспонирање) which guides the harmonization of national legislation with EU law, and the Nomotechnical Rules Handbook (Прирачник за номотехнички правила) which standardizes the drafting of laws and other regulations. Additionally, the organization publishes the List of Public Information as mandated by the Free Access to Information Act, covering organizational documents, strategic plans, budgets, and reports.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Legislative Consistency Review Opinions (Мислења за усогласеност на прописите)

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• National Library of Macedonia (UKLO)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 May 2025Memorandum of Cooperation for cooperation in areas of mutual interest related to public information and documentation
• Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (UKIM)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 January 2025Memorandum of Cooperation for academic and professional cooperation in legislative and EU integration matters
• National Democratic Institute (NDI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvided technical assistance for development of the Nomotechnics Handbook (2020 edition) through USAID-funded program, supporting quality legislative drafting in North Macedonia
• USAIDcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFunded the development of the bilingual Nomotechnics Handbook and parliamentary support programs through technical assistance programs
• Embassy of Switzerland in North MacedoniaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFinanced the Parliament Support Programme for harmonizing positions on unified methodology for law drafting
• ReSPA (Regional School of Public Administration)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerParticipated in regional workshops on IT tools in legal harmonization process and public administration development in Belgrade 2016
• UNOPSminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupported study visits to Zagreb for knowledge exchange on EU integration using regional experiences
• Legislation Secretariats of Slovenia and MontenegrominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerStudy visits for exchange of experiences in legislative drafting, nomotechnics, and EU integration processes
• Institute for Democracy Societas Civilis SkopjeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Parliament Support Programme for unified methodology on law drafting
• Center for Change Management (CUP)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Parliament Support Programme for legislative methodology development
• European Union (through Twinning projects)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMultiple twinning projects funded by EU for legislative approximation, including Slovenia-Macedonia 2004/2005 twinning on internal market legislation and MK 10 IPA OT 02 14 on institutional capacities for EU integration

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• OECD - Better Regulation & Legislative Quality tools: OECD's better-regulation framework provides international standards for legislative quality and regulatory impact assessment. Comparable because the Secretariat's nomotechnics methodology draws on, and is benchmarked against, OECD legislative quality principles.
• European Commission - DG JUST (Justice and Consumers): Directorate-General responsible for EU justice policy and rule of law, including oversight of legislative approximation. Comparable because the Macedonian Secretariat's core mission — transposing EU law — is governed by DG JUST's acquis framework, making it the upstream counterpart.
• SIGMA (Support for Improvement in Governance and Management): Joint OECD-EU initiative supporting public governance reform in the Western Balkans, including legislative quality. Comparable because it provides the methodological standards and assessment frameworks against which the Secretariat's outputs are benchmarked.
• Venice Commission (Council of Europe): Council of Europe body providing legal-constitutional advice on legislation across member and observer states. Comparable because it operates upstream in the legal-quality ecosystem that the Secretariat depends on for constitutional compliance review.

Direct peers

• Secretariat for Legislation of the Government of the Republic of Serbia: Serbia's legislative secretariat of the Government. Direct peer because it performs the same mandate of legislative consistency verification and EU harmonization for a neighboring Western Balkan country on the same EU accession path.
• Slovenian Government - Legislative Service (Slovenia): Slovenia's equivalent legislative drafting service within the Government. Direct peer because it performs the same mandate — ensuring legal consistency and EU law harmonization — and has exchanged methodologies with the Macedonian Secretariat through formal study visits.
• Secretariat for Legislation of Montenegro: Montenegro's functional counterpart, providing legislative drafting and EU transposition support to the Government. Direct peer because it shares the same legal origin, EU accession trajectory, and institutional design, and has participated in joint study visits with the Macedonian Secretariat.
• Croatian Government - Office for Legislation: Croatia's legislative drafting and EU compliance body. Direct peer because it serves the same function for a country that has already completed EU accession, and is cited as a regional model in the Macedonian Secretariat's transposition methodology documentation.
• Secretariat of the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia: The professional service of the Macedonian Parliament, which the Secretariat closely supports. Direct peer because it operates on the legislative side of the same pipeline — receiving legislative drafts after Secretariat consistency review — and has been a co-beneficiary of the Parliament Support Programme.

Regional players

• ReSPA (Regional School of Public Administration): Regional public-sector training and knowledge-sharing body for the Western Balkans. Comparable because it operates in the same regional policy ecosystem, and the Macedonian Secretariat has participated in ReSPA workshops on IT tools for legal harmonization.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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