Article 4

(2) Every accused has the following minimum rights:

Article 6

The official language in the criminal procedure is the Macedonian language and its Cyrillic alphabet.

Article 7

(1) Parties and other participants in the procedure during hearings and other procedure activities before the Court have the right to use their own language. If the procedure is not conducted in the language of the parties and participants, respectively, oral translation for what is being said during the hearings will be provided in their own language as well as oral translation of the corrections which are used during hearings as a proof.

(2) Parties and other participants in the procedure will be instructed about the right to follow the oral procedure in their own language by the help of interpreters. They may cancel the right to interpretation if they give statement that they understand the language in which the procedure is being conducted. The record will include that they were given such instruction as well as their statement.

(3) Interpretation is done by an interpreter.

Source: Unofficial translation
"Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia", No. 15/97