The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has ruled on the unconstitutionality of certain provisions of the Law on Forests of the Republika Srpska, in the part which states that the forests are the property of this entity.
The Constitutional Court clarified this, as well as other decisions, at a press conference in Mostar. Members of the Constitutional Court stated that the entity Law on Forests had elements of unconstitutionality in the part where forests are treated as RS property.
As they said, the state should determine that issue with its law, and only then the entities. Speaking generally about the decisions of the Court, they stated that in the last 11 years, 65 thousand cases have been resolved, of which decisions in more than 90 percent of cases were made unanimously.
The President of the Court, Mato Tadić, pointed out that the Constitutional Court insists on the execution of decisions, and reminded that the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH has the most unexecuted, followed by the Federation of BiH.
He added that the Republika Srpska mostly executes decisions, but when it came to the decision on Statehood Day, no new law was passed, but the existing one was repealed. The Constitutional Court emphasizes that the goal is to speed up the decision-making process.
