The draft law on preventing conflicts of interest in the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) was removed from the agenda of yesterday’s session of the Council of Ministers of BiH.
Moreover, from the proposed agenda of the session published on the website of the Council of Ministers, the Draft Law on Courts, as well as the Draft Basis for conducting negotiations and concluding an agreement between BiH and the European Union (EU) on operational activities carried out by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) in BiH, at the proposal of the Ministry of Security to the Council of Ministers of BiH, have been removed.
It can be assumed that this move by Dodik’s ministers in the BiH Council of Ministers is actually a kind of “retaliation” for the fact that at yesterday’s meeting of the ruling coalition at the state level, SNSD’s proposal to place the Appellate Division of the Court of BiH in Banja Luka was not adopted.
Namely, the representatives of the Coalition of the Three parties who participated in yesterday’s negotiations in Sarajevo did not agree that the headquarters of the Appellate Division should be in Banja Luka, suggesting that it be in another location in the Republika Srpska (RS). Dodik refused, after which he said at the press conference that “negotiations failed”.
It should be recalled that the laws that were removed from the agenda of the session of the Council of Ministers of BiH yesterday are part of the 14 priorities of the EU. Dodik said earlier that the adoption of this law can only go “in a package with the Law on Courts”, which is also from the aforementioned 14 priorities, Klix.ba reports.
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