23.03.2007
The High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, issued today an Order concerning implementation of the Decision of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the appeal of Milorad Bilbija and others. This Order comes into immediate effect.The Decision of the Constitutional Court...
23.03.2007
Supervisory Order on urban planning Annulling certain decisions made by the Appellate Commission and reinforcing certain urban approvalsa and dismissing certain officials from the District Government and mandating certain changes to District urban planning rules and imposing certain legislative amendments relating...
23.03.2007
Brcko Supervisor Dr Raffi Gregorian has recently been investigating a corruption scandal in the District’s urban planning regime. The scandal was brought to his attention by an obvious fraud perpetrated when a fictitious applicant sought the annulment by the Government Appellate Commission of a series of urban approval...
23.03.2007
In the exercise of the powers vested in the High Representative by Article V of Annex 10 (Agreement on Civilian Implementation of the Peace Settlement) to the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to which the High Representative is the final authority in theatre regarding interpret...
23.03.2007
Good afternoon and thank you for coming at such short notice.After several false starts, it appears that Bosnia and Herzegovina ’s state-level institutions have truly begun functioning this week. That is the good news.The bad news is that the Federal institutions have just made a false start.I hav...
23.03.2007
Twelve years after the end of the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the peoples of this country face many of the same challenges faced by citizens of Western Europe in 1957, when they had just embarked on what was to be the longest and steepest development curve in economic history, the High Representative and EU Spe...
23.03.2007
In the exercise of the powers vested in the High Representative by Article V of Annex 10 (Agreement on Civilian Implementation of the Peace Settlement) to the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to which the High Representative is the final authority in theatre regarding interpret...
23.03.2007
Twelve years after the end of World War Two – building on agreements made by shattered countries to improve their prospects by cooperating in the production and distribution of necessary but scarce materials (including coal and steel) –Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and The Netherlands signed the Treaty of...
23.03.2007
The OHR is concerned that there has been an attempt to manipulate the vetting process.This manipulation is even more evident given the fact that the OHR had informed FBiH leaders that it was ready to announce the results of the vetting process as early as tomorrow.Vetting was introduced with the agreement of BiH's poli...
22.03.2007
Thank you Ambassador Schmunk for that introduction; for setting the scene for this weekend’s events; and for organising this gathering of the EU family in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the eve of what is a historic anniversary.In the coming years, the European Union is going to play an ever more important role in Bosnia an...