Chairman Bevanda with European Parliament Delegation

Chairman of the Council of Ministers of BIH Vjekoslav Bevanda received today a Delegation of the European Parliament, led by Eduard Kukan, with which he discussed the political and economic situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and stalemates on the road to the European Union. 

Chairman Bevnada informed the meeting of the Council of Ministers’ activities and on fulfilment of the Road Map commitments.

“Despite the on-going rearrangement of authorities in BIH, the Council of Ministers of BIH has all conditions in place for work. With today’s session we completed all defined tasks under the Road Map, we adopted to so-called ‘hygiene package’, in waiting for four years. All regulations concerning food safety are completed and the Directorate for European Integrations will send them to Brussels. The Law on State Aid System was adopted, and the State Aid Council was appointed today. We finalised our negotiations with the IMF successfully and thereby fulfilled conditions for unblocking of EUR 100 million of EC funds. The Council of Ministers of BIH adopted today Information on start-up activities of the Team for preparation of coordination mechanism documents for European Integrations issues, which will be forwarded to Brussels by the Directorate for European Integrations”, Chairman Bevanda stated.

Head of the European Parliament Delegation Eduard Kukan said that he was encouraged by Chairman Bevanda’s briefing, and reminded that BIH can count on all forms of support in competence of the European Parliament.

“We count on your state as future EU member. We all had to fulfil conditions before joining the EU, and all we have done was to the benefit of our citizens. We can assist you, but the conditions must be fulfilled by yourselves”, Eduar Kukan said at the meeting.

He expressed his interest for the issue of border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the issue of border crossings, the so-called border inspection points, and ways of finding solution to the Sejdić-Finci award implementation, etc.

Chairman Bevanda thanked to Mr Kukan for a special sensibility the European Union shows towards BIH, highlighting his deep awareness of the fact that we have to take all decisions by ourselves.

The meeting was attended by European MP Doris Pack, Head of the Delegation of European Union in BIH and EU Special Representative in BIH Peter Sorensen, Head of the Directorate for European Integrations Nevenka Savić and BIH Ambassador to the European Union Igor Davidović.

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