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The Ministry of Justice of Bosnia and Herzegovina has competence over the following: (Official Gazette of BiH, No. 5/03 of March 07, 2003)

• Administrative functions in terms of judicial authorities at state level;
• International and inter-entity judicial co-operation (international legal aid and contacts with international tribunals);
• Development of relevant laws and regulations defining issues referred to in sub-paragraphs 1 and 2 herein;
• Ensuring that the BiH legislation and the implementation thereof at all levels be aligned with the BiH commitments stemming from international agreements;
• Collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with Entities on development of international bilateral and multilateral agreements;
• Guiding and monitoring legal education in order to ensure inter-entity consolidation and action in line with the best standards in this field;
• Generally acting as a central co-ordination authority for ensuring consolidation of legislation and judicial system standards between the Entities, through either providing fora or co-ordinating initiatives;
• Extradition;
• Administrative inspection of enforcement of laws concerning civil servants and employees of administrative bodies, administrative procedures, special administrative procedures and office management;
• Issues concerning citizens associations, keeping record of citizens associations and non-governmental organisations active in BiH;
• Other tasks and duties which do not fall within the jurisdiction of other Ministries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but are related to issues falling within the jurisdiction of this Ministry.