03/22/2006

The Work of the Police Directorate Must Continue

The EUSR/High Representative today highlighted the crucial role played by the Police Directorate, and repeated that progress on police reform is first of all important for Bosnia and Herzegovina to combat crime and, therefore, also a key requirement for BiH's EU integration.
03/22/2006

Brcko Supervisor Bans Excessive Non-Salary Payments to Public Employees

Brcko Supervisor Susan Johnson today issued a Supervisory Order prohibiting the Government of Brcko District from makingany further non-salary payments to public employees for their service upon government commissions, steering boards of public enterprises and institutions, and for certain other activities or upon temporary transfers to new positio [...]
03/15/2006

Statement: Amendments Undermine State RTV Law

The amendments to the FBiH Government's proposed PBS Service Law that were adopted in the FBiH House of Representatives today are not fully harmonised with the BiH PBS System Law.
03/10/2006

Statement: High Representative Calls for Changes in BiH Business Environment and EU Visa Regime in Order to Boost Competitiveness, Create Jobs

"Bosnia and Heryegovina has come back to the global technology market," the High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, told journalists in Hannover today. He said the first ever participation by a BiH delegation at the world's largest computer fair, CEBIT, represented an important initial step in boosting contacts between the BiH IT sector a [...]
03/09/2006

High Representative Organizes a Meeting of German and BiH Business People at CEBIT

The High Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, today organized and chaired a meeting between BiH and German Information Technology companies in Hannover, on the first day of the CEBIT international technology fair, one of the world's two principal annual exhibitions of computer innovation. Purpose of the meeting was to initiate contacts betw [...]
03/09/2006

One step closer to a single State-level Ombudsman Institution

OSCE Mission to BiH, Office of High Representative and Council of Europe welcome the adoption of the amendments to the Law on Ombudsman by BiH House of Representatives. The purpose of these amendments is to restructure the Ombudsmen institutions and achieve a coherent, effective and sustainable system of human rights protection for citizens across [...]