The Logistics Consortium of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced that it was currently recorded that 100 professional drivers from BiH were forcibly returned from the countries of the European Union, and appealed to the competent authorities in BiH to harmonize the operational position with the European Commission without delay, because otherwise, new similar cases will soon be recorded.
The Consortium stated that the competent institutions of BiH did not send any official reaction to the European Commission or the Transport Community, while the competent institutions of Germany, Austria, Poland and other countries confirmed that they processed an additional 100 cases of forced return/deportation only yesterday.
“Logistika” clarified that forced return means that an individual, due to an assessed risk or a formal interpretation of stay, has been declared a person who is illegally present in the territory of a certain country, and regardless of employment status, employment contract and documentation – is forcibly returned to the home country.
“In the last 365 days, in Germany alone, 100 professional drivers have been expelled solely for working. This is a legal and political fact,” the Consortium warned.
They believe that this practice is a direct violation of the basic right to work, given that professional drivers have proper and valid employment contracts, possess all legally prescribed documentation, perform exclusively professional work in international road transport and do not pose a security, migration or social risk.
The Consortium calls on the authorities in BiH to harmonize the official and operational position with the European Commission without delay, because it is absolutely certain that, if nothing is done, another 100 forcibly returned drivers from BiH will be registered in a very short period of time – solely because they are employed and professionally perform their work.
“The silence and inaction of the institutions at this moment means the tacit acceptance of practices that lead to the systematic expulsion of the workforce, the collapse of the transport sector and the direct endangerment of the supply chains of BiH and the region,” the Consortium pointed out.
They clarified that these problems have nothing to do with the EES system /entry and exit/, and added that there is no technical issue that would justify forced removals, detentions, deportations or entry bans.
