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9 Iustinianus Primus L. Rev. 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/iusplr9 and id is 1 raw text is: Ana Pavlovska Daneva* Ivana Shumanovska Spasovska Elena Davitkovska* THE LEGAL STATUS OF THE REGULATORY BODIES/AGENCIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA I. INTRODUCTION It is evident that the number of regulatory bodies in the Republic of Macedonia since the 1990s has been continuously increasing. These authorities gain increasing importance and influence on the market economy and deregulation of a part of the state administrations' activities. The main features of the regulatory bodies include specialisation, professionalism, political neutrality, independence and organisation as central authorities. In a historic sense, they appear primarily due to the fact that the state administration should be scaled down. The scaling down means that the state administration should not perform those activities that can be conducted in a more proper, qualitative and effective way by other authorities, that is, bodies with public authorities. This way, the privatization and liberalization of the public sector is initiated. All this is due to the emergence of new public management whose basic principles are economy, efficiency, effectiveness, specialisation. As of December 31, 2016, the Register of Public Sector Employees in the Republic of Macedonia records 13 independent authorities and 10 regulatory authorities. Regulatory authorities in the Republic of Macedonia are: the Agency for Supervision of Fully Funded Pension Insurance - ASFFPI (MAPAS) from 2002, the Insurance Supervision Agency - ISA (ASO) from 2002, the Macedonian Securities and Exchange Commission from 2005, the Civil Aviation Agency from 2006, the Agency for Electronic Communications - AEC (AEK) from 2008, the Regulatory Commission for Housing from 2009, the Postal Agency from 2010, the Energy Regulatory Commission from 2011, the Agency for Regulation of the Railway Sector from 2012 and the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services from 2013. The authors analyze several important issues regarding the regulatory bodies, such as: 1. the position of these authorities in the system of separation of powers in the Republic of Macedonia, 2. the relation between these authorities and other authorities (state administration, judiciary and assembly), 3. basic activities executed by these authorities and 4. in what manner their independence or autonomy from other authorities is ensured. Thus, the authors aim to open the dilemmas and problems that we face when defining these bodies, their delineation and differentiation from other independent authorities, agencies, the problem with the inequality of the legal regulation regarding the election of members in these authorities, the way decision are made, the manner of control and the discharge of responsibility of these bodies. For instance, the * Ana Pavlovska Daneva, PhD., Full Professor, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Faculty of Law Iustinianus Primus, Republic of Macedonia ** Ivana Shumanovska Spasovska, PhD., Associate Professor, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Faculty of Law Iustinianus Primus, Republic of Macedonia ***Elena Davitkovska, Associate professor at the Institute of Economics at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje 1

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