At yesterday’s eighth extraordinary session of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a Bill on amendments to the Law on Salaries and Remunerations in the BiH Institutions was adopted unanimously.
The Bill was referred to the procedure by a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Denis Bećirović.
At the same time, with the adoption of the budget for 2023, the state institutions have been strengthened, said Mirza Kršo, Bećirović’s adviser on economic issues.
This is the first budget increase in almost a decade with an increase of more than 240 million BAM, i.e. more than 20 percent compared to the previous budget.
According to Bećirović’s adviser, it is a law that directly targets and prevents the growth of the salaries of the highest officials in the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2023, starting with the members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, while the salaries of civil servants and state employees are adjusted upwards in accordance with the adopted Proposal of the Law on to the BiH budget for 2023.
This enables an increase in income for the army, police officers, civil servants and civil servants, who for the first time have an increase in income in absolute terms in more than a decade, unlike other levels of government.
However, in the same draft, an increase in the salaries of the highest officials in Bosnia and Herzegovina was foreseen, after they had already received significant increases in the previous budget.
Bećirović was resolutely against it, and through concrete institutional action, he offered the BiH Parliamentary Assembly a solution to freeze the salaries of such officials without blocking the adoption of the BiH budget.
