November 2002 PLIP Statistics

The PLIP agencies (OHR, UNHCR, OSCE, CRPC and UNMIBH) wish to announce the Property Law Implementation statistics for November 2002. They note an overall increase of three percent in the property-law implementation rate, which as of the end of November stands at 67 percent throughout the country.

In Brcko District, 73 percent of property claims recorded in these statistics have been solved; in the BiH Federation, 71 percent have been solved, while in the RS 61 percent of claims were resolved. However, out of the total caseload currently registered in housing offices throughout BiH, there are still around 82 000 claims unresolved.

The overall increase in the implementation rate results primarily from a decrease in the number of claims recorded. The reason for this, according to housing offices, is ongoing revision of files and the exclusion of destroyed properties from the statistics.