OHR Press Releases
02/25/2003
Bulldozer Committee Completes List of 50 Bureaucratic Roadblocks to Doing Business in BiH
The Bulldozer Committee, initiated by the High Representative in November to help clear away pointless bureaucracy that prevents businesses from expanding and creating jobs, held its third plenary meeting today. The Committee, now composed of over twenty BiH business organisations, has held consultative meetings in Banja Luka, Tuzla, Mostar, Travni [...]
02/25/2003
CIPS Project Too Important to Fail
Speaking today about the new BiH identity cards, now being distributed under the CIPS project, the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, called on BiH politicians to show leadership and responsibility, and not score political points at the expense of citizens and at the expense of this country’s future. The High Representative emphasised that the CIP [...]
02/24/2003
High Representative Issues Decision on CIPS Project
The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today issued a Decision setting in place the price-structure of the BiH ID card. The High Representative’s Decision maintains the existing price-structure (basic unit price of each card: 10 KM; plus administrative costs: 3.5 KM; plus banking charge: 1 KM). Thus, the final price paid by citizens for an ID card [...]
02/21/2003
High Representative Sets Out Final Steps on ORAO
The International Community will take appropriate and effective steps to ensure that the systemic failure of control which produced the ORAO scandal is not permitted to happen again, High Representative Paddy Ashdown said today.
“We need to assess the degree and the extent of political responsibility and the degree and extent of the systematic f [...]
02/21/2003
OHR-ICTY Working Group on Development of BiH Capacity for War-crimes trials Successfully Completed
Today, Friday 21 February 2003, in The Hague, the President of the International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Judge Claude Jorda, and the OHR Senior Deputy High Representative and Head of the Rule of Law Pillar, Ambassador Bernard Fassier, signed Joint Conclusions on the development of war-crimes trial capacities in Bosnia and [...]
02/18/2003
Brcko Supervisor Appoints New Councilor to the District Assembly
Brcko Supervisor Ambassador Henry L. Clarke today issued Supervisory Order on the appointment of Mr. Mustafa Sinanagic (SDP) as Councilor filling the last vacant seat in the Assembly of the Brcko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This Assembly seat is one of the three vacant seats that occurred after the resignation of Mr. Djordje Ristanic and [...]
02/18/2003
Supervisor Appoints Brcko Police Chief
The Brcko District Supervisor, Henry L. Clarke, today appointed Milenko Milicevic as Chief of the Brcko District Police. Mr. Milicevic has been appointed for a four-year term, which can be extended by one additional four-year term.
Mr. Milicevic was unanimously proposed for this post by the Independent Selection and Review Board. The Board compris [...]
02/12/2003
High Representative Establishes Indirect Tax Policy Commission
The High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, today issued a Decision establishing an Indirect Tax Policy Commission tasked with introducing a single customs administration and a single State-wide VAT system in BiH, within the framework of an Indirect Taxation Administration which will operate at State level.
The High Representative described the intro [...]
02/12/2003
Deadline for Claiming Destroyed Socially-Owned Apartments in Brcko Expires Soon
OHR Brcko Department for Return and Reconstruction reminds the public that the deadline for claiming destroyed socially-owned apartments in the Brcko District expires on 28 February 2003.
After that date no more claims will be accepted.
02/11/2003
December 2002 PLIP Statistics
According to the Property Legislation statistics released today by the PLIP agencies (OHR, UNHCR, OSCE, CRPC and UNMIBH), property law implementation reached 69 percent as of the end of 2002 throughout BiH. This represents a countrywide increase of 28% for the year 2002, compared with 20% in 2001. This is an encouraging development, yet there is st [...]