Revista da EMERJ - V. 20 - N. 2 - Maio/Agosto - 2018

 R. EMERJ, Rio de Janeiro, v. 20, n. 2, p. 73 - 115, Maio/Agosto 2018  97 diators. Accreditation is granted to the programs that meet the requi- rements for accreditation. The conditions for accreditation of these programs and the circle of persons who are eligible to apply for are determined by the Board. Issued accreditation may be extended or subtracted depending on the results of the evaluation of the quality of the implementation of the accredited training programs. This eva- luation is carried out by the Board at least once in every five years in accordance with the methodology and procedure for monitoring and evaluating the quality of the implementation of accredited training programs for mediators. Also, like many times before, the methodo- logy and procedure for monitoring and evaluation remains unknown to the professional and general public. Training programs for media- tors which have been granted with an accreditation are recorded in the Register of accredited training programs for mediators. The Board maintains The Register of trainers for the mediators and the Register of the accredited training programs for mediators. Do you have a national organization of mediators? Yes, we have. The Chamber of Mediators (hereinafter: KMRM or the Chamber) as a professional association of mediators was intro- duced for the first time by Article 28 of the Law on Mediation of 2006. It was founded on 22.10.2006, with headquarters in Skopje and has its own statute, bodies, and is registered as a legal person. Article 66 of the Law on Mediation of 2013, stipulates that the Chamber of Me- diators established under the Law on Mediation of 2006 shall cease to function on the day of establishment of the Chamber in accordance with the new law. As a result of failure of the Ministry of justice to adopt a necessary legislation on the one hand, and the inability to form a new Chamber on the other, a legal vacuum was created for a long time, which directly effects on the practice of mediation on the already fragile system of mediation in the Republic of Macedonia. Large part of the positive Law on mediation regulates the Cham- ber in detail. According to the proposer of the law, such detailed legislative regulations will have positively reflection on functioning of the Chamber. Law on mediation stipulates the obligation for the licensed mediators to be organized in the Chamber of Mediators of the Republic of Macedonia, based in Skopje. The Chamber can