The Agencies involved in the Property Law Implementation Plan (OHR, OSCE, UNHCR, UNMIBH and CRPC) announced today that, as of the end of March 2002, the overall implementation rate of the property laws in BiH has risen to 46%.
In the Federation, 51% of cases have been solved; 38% of cases in the RS have been solved, and 47% of cases in Brcko have been solved. In other words, out of 141,229 households that filed a claim in the Federation, 72,379 have repossessed their property, and out of 107,516 claims in the RS, 41,245 have been solved. Out of 6,867 claims filed in the Brcko District, 3,257 repossessions have taken place. In total, 116,881 out of 255,612 households have repossessed their property.
The sudden apparent rise in the RS implementation rate, from 34% last month to 38% this month, is mainly due to the exclusion of claims filed for devastated properties, in several municipalities of the RS, from the total number of claims filed.