Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Holds Its 126th Session

The Council of Ministers of BIH considered and adopted an Activity Report of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina for year 2014. 

The Council of Ministers of BIH hold, in the course of year 204 total 47 sessions, out of which 38 regular and 9 extraordinary session, where it considered 889 items of agenda, and prepared and produced 1.253 conclusions.

In the reported period, the Council of Ministers defined 20 draft laws, 4 analyses and 3 instructions, it took 163 resolutions, and gave tis consent to 39 rulebooks, defined 57 proposal contracts, agreements, protocols and memorandums, it defined 50 proposal negotiating basics for conclusion of international treaties, defined 64 proposal resolutions on ratification of international treaties, adopted 176 information from different sectors, adopted 146 reports, defined 288 answers to deputies’ questions and initiatives, and defined 51 answers to delegations’ questions.

In the curse of year 2014, the Council of Ministers took 498 conclusions, assigning their implementation to Ministries and other institutions.

The focus of interest of the Council of Ministers of BIH in 2014 was the realisation of obligations Bosnia and Herzegovina undertook to fulfil in order to get on track on the EU road. A series of meeting was held during the year aimed at strengthening of stability, security, justice and progress. The Council of Ministers of BIH was considering continuously documents prepared by competent Ministries and other institutions and was taking a series of resolutions, approximating BIH to the EU. A coordination mechanism, as a precondition of the EU has not been fulfilled yet, neither has a ‘Sejdić-Finci’ ruling implementation. Out of EU 26 requirements, BIH fulfilled 24 within a very short deadline, however these two remaining tasks, proved to be exceptionally delicate, remained unfulfilled, despite invested efforts, reads the Council of Ministers Report.

Year 2014 saw the continuation of fulfilment and regular evaluation of goals implementation under NATO “Individual Partner Action Plan” (IPAP) and “Individual Partner Cooperation Programme” (IPCP), and in that context annual evaluation of both documents was made in cooperation with NATO Coordination Team.

May 2014 brought along disastrous floods to Bosnia and Herzegovina, with human victims and huge material damage. Subject to its legal competences, the Council of Ministers, in its ten thematic sessions, was taking decisions and conclusions towards setting-up necessary requirements and capacities for action in such extraordinary circumstances.

In the course of 2014 the chairman and Ministers made important contacts with a view of improving good neighbourly relations and regional cooperation and fostering of political, economic, cultural and other contacts on the base of mutual respect and equality.

The Council of Ministers members, each within its competences, singed a series of agreements, memorandums, protocol and declarations.

On October 1, 2’14, Bosnia and Herzegovina took control over BIH skies, which meant for our country the opening of a new chapter of cooperation with EUROCONTROL. This project brings a financial benefit for Bosnia and Herzegovina and BIH civil aviation.

As to planned and non-realised programmatic tasks, when in question international credit arrangements, non-realisation was mostly caused by Entity Governments’ giving-up financing of such projects.

2012-1015 BIH Learning on Entrepreneurship in Education Strategy was adopted, under provisions of the Stabilisation and Accession Agreement between the European Communities and BIH,

Also, the Council of Ministers of BIH adopted a Strategy for Countering Organised Crime in BIH for 1’014-2106.

Different institutions, and the Council of Ministers itself, were active in a number of additional activities, not included into their respective work programmes.

The Council of Ministers of BIH 2014 Work Programme set 628 programmatic tasks to be completed, by December 2014. An insight into tasks holders’ reports, the Secretariat-General found that data were provided for all programmatic tasks, out of which 353, or 56% were implemented.

Other than highlighted main Ministries’ activities, the Council of Ministers Activity Report covers activities and reports in the areas of competence of independent administrative organisations, such as the Directorate for European Integrations, Directorate for Economic Planning and Public Administration Reform Coordinator’s Office.

The Secretariat-General of the Council of Ministers is tasked to forward the 2014 Activity Report of the Council of Ministers of BIH to the Parliamentarian Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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