Accession Requirement – Office of the High Representative

Accession Requirement		Status
		Un- Satisfied	Partially Satisfied	Satisfied	Legislation imposed by OHR
#3 Human Rights Institutions
Commitment to adequate funding of the Human Rights Chamber, Ombudsperson and Commission for Displaced Persons and Refugees	BiH	X
Full compliance with decisions of the Human Rights Chamber and recommendations of the Ombudsperson	BiH Fed RS		X X	X
Establishment of a working group with OHR and Council of Europe for restructuring human rights protection mechanisms in accordance with recommendations of the Venice Commission	Fed RS		X X
Passage of legislation on the Ombudsmen recommended by the Venice Commission and guaranteeing their continuing independence	Fed		X
Establishment of the Ombudsmen as a multi-ethnic institution	RS		X
#4 Judicial System
Adoption of the laws to establish independent selection procedures for judges and prosecutors and priority to adequate judicial salaries	Fed RS			X X	X
#5 Constitutional Court
Commitment to adequate funding of the Constitutional Court in a manner which sustains its independence and implementation of its decisions	BiH	X
#6 Compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights
Adoption of Immigration and Asylum Law	BiH			X
Adoption of Law on Associations and Foundations respecting independence of Non-Governmental Organisations	BiH Fed RS		X X X
Establishment of groups to examine compatibility of legislation with ECHR, and regular consultation with OHR and CoE on legislative initiatives	Fed RS		X X
Legislation on Conscientious Objection and Alternative Service	Fed RS	X X
Revised Law on Internal Affairs	RS	X
Revised Law on Citizenship	BiH Fed RS	X	X	X
Adoption of the Criminal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure	RS		X
#7 ICTY
Full Cooperation with the ICTY	Fed RS	X X
#9 Property Laws (Return of Refugees and Displaced Persons)
Full co-operation and compliance with Annex 7 on Refugees and Displaced Persons of the Dayton Peace Agreement in the Implementation of the property laws	Fed RS	X X
Revised laws to guarantee the right to return of individuals whose apartments have been permanently reallocated to another person	Fed RS			X X	X X
Revised Law on Housing Relations	Fed RS			X X	X X
Establishment of a mechanism to ensure access to and recognition of personal documents	Fed RS	X X
Full implementation of the Decisions of the Human Rights Chamber concerning former Yugoslav National Army (JNA) apartments	Fed		X
Establishment of an effective property claims process	RS		X
#11 Education
Substantial progress in the amendment of textbooks, including withdrawal of all offensive materials by beginning of 1999/2000 school year	Fed RS	X	X
Review of the education system in order to eradicate all aspects of ethnic segregation	Fed RS	X X
*Total Human rights accession-related requirements*	40	15	16	9	5¹

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1 Of eight satisfied CoE accession tasks requiring adoption of legislation, only three – the BiH Law on Immigration and Asylum, the BiH Revised Law on Citizenship and The [RS] Laws to Establish Independent Selection Procedures for Judges and Prosecutors and Priority to Adequate Judicial Salaries – were adopted by relevant governmental bodies. The other four were imposed.

The ‘x’ symbol when italicized indicates assessment change

OHR Human Rights/ Rule of Law Department