July Deadline Approaches for Repossession of Destroyed Socially-Owned

The agencies of the Property Law Implementation Plan, the OHR, OSCE, UNHCR, CRPC and UNMIBH, wish to remind the owners of socially-owned apartments destroyed during the war, that claims for the repossession of such apartments must be made by July 1, 2002.

If your pre-war socially-owned apartment was devastated and uninhabitable on October 4, 1999 in the Federation of BiH or April 19, 2000 in the Republika Srpska and you have not previously submitted a claim for its repossession – you have a chance to do so now. This applies only to apartments that were destroyed during the war, not to apartments that were undamaged.

July 1, 2002 is the deadline to file a claim with your municipal housing authority (Federation BiH) or OMI (RS) to repossess it, regardless of whether or not it is still uninhabitable or has since been rebuilt.