Abstract:
The EU membership criteria as defined by the European Council in 1993include several legislative criteria which require inter alia: 1.Translation ofmore than 120.000 pages of EU legislation; 2.Approximation of domesticlegislation with EU legislation; 3.Continuing harmonization of nationalinstitutional framework with EU legislation and institutional framework. Onthe other hand the Albanian Legal System cannot be integrated into Euro-Atlantic legal system without a significant change of the Albanianjurisprudence in regards to the relationship between international law anddomestic law as a must to achieve a full harmonization between EU law andAlbanian Law.
