Una-Sana Canton has been working on a new information law for more than a year, which should soon be presented to the representatives of the cantonal assembly.
According to Albijana Trnavci, secretary of the USC Ministry of Education and president of the working group for drafting the USC information law, journalists in this canton should be granted the status of official persons.
Trnavci was also one of the panelists at the recently held conference “Reforms on hold: Freedom of the media in BiH and European standards”, where the importance of adopting reform laws in the field of media was highlighted.
She points out for Fena that the draft of the new law provides for better protection of professional journalists.
“The good thing for media workers in Una-Sana Canton is that journalists will have the status of official persons, and this is what journalists in BiH demand, and which no one has seriously considered so far. We have gone a step further, I believe that we have resolved this segment well and we believe that the law will find support when it is sent to the parliamentary procedure,” says Trnavci.
This draft law, which the Ministry has been working on for a year, has attracted both praise and criticism, but it brings potential improvements in the rights of media workers at the local level and should soon be before the parliamentary representatives who, the Ministry of Education of the USC believes, will adopt this draft.
“The adoption of this draft law should solve most of the problems when it comes to information. From what the media must fulfill when registering and launching an internet portal, to the rulebook on the promotion of media workers and who can perform the function of editor, editor-in-chief, director and the like,” she explains.
By adopting this law, the Una-Sana Canton would thus become the first canton in the Federation of BiH in which journalists have the status of an official.
