Concessions in Albania and Macedonia in Comparative Law (Interdisciplinary Studies)

Abstract

The changes of political and economic system in the late 80’s in Macedonia and early 90’s in Albania required a broader reform of the entire legal system by creating a functioning market based in the rules of free market and competition and the privatization of state enterprises. Roggemman (Roggemann 1993) describes the transformation as a transformation from state institutions in Albania - or selfmanaged enterprises in Macedonia, into western commercial companies such as JSC or limited partnership. In this sense the concession-process was one of the main pillars of the privatization process in Albania and Macedonia that built the foundation of free market economy. For more than 40 years, the Albanian and Macedonian citizens were faced with the communist ideology as the basis of state government regulation. This ideology stated that all citizens had contributed the same way and in the same extent during socialism for the construction of state and social property. In this context, the concession - process was accompanied by the deficiency of accurate economic statistics, concession strategies, foreign investors, a bad policy implementation as well as delays in the framework of immedialy needed reforms (Åslund 2013). The main objective of this article is to analyze the concession - process in Albania and Macedonia in comparative law, keeping in mind their EU-integration.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2014.v3n3p467