At yesterday’s Structured Dialogue meeting between justice ministers from the entities, Brcko, and BiH, and hosted by EU officials, those assembled agreed in principle to to finalize new rules for the BiH Court by the end of this year.
“We now, I believe, have a good basis for future discussion about this issue, which will continue on technical level until Christmas. I hope the draft law, which will come from the two proposals already on the table – one from 2013 and the other prepared by Republika Srpska this year – will be finished by the end of the year,” he said.
The need for a new law governing the work of the state court has been a stumbling block for judicial reform.
Bosnian Serb leaders want the right of the state-level judiciary to take over cases from the Republika Srpska and the Bosniak-Croat Federation entities at its own discretion to be removed.
