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TI BiH urges for adoption of a new law on conflict of interest

FENA Press release

BANJA LUKA, June 19 (FENA) - The BiH Council of Ministers did not meet the deadline within which it was supposed to submit the Bill on the Prevention of Conflict of Interests in the Institutions of BiH Government to the parliamentary procedure, stated the Transparency International in BiH (TI BiH).

According to the conclusions of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, the deadline of 90 days expired in April, which is why TI BiH sent an open letter to the Ministry of Justice and the Council of Ministers of BiH.

The draft law, in which TI BiH also participated, and that was supported by international organizations, including the EU and the OSCE, was before the deputies of the House of Representatives on January 16 this year. Instead of declaring, the House of Representatives instructed the Council of Ministers to draft its own bill, which has not happened to date.

Due to all of this, one gets the impression that the competent institutions are obstructing the adoption of this law, which is one of the key mechanisms for the prevention of corruption, it is stated in the statement from TI BiH.

The existing legal solution, as they add, does not contain all the necessary mechanisms for preventing conflicts of interest, is not in line with international standards, and is not applied at all because, as they claim, the new convocation of the Conflict of Interest Commission has not been appointed since 2018, so there has been no one to solve numerous applications for two years.

The TIBiH said that the latest report of the GRECO (Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption) clearly stated that there is no credible and independent mechanism in BiH that deals with conflicts of interest, and that urgent changes in this area are necessary. Also, improving this law is one of the 14 key priorities in the European Commission's Opinion on BiH's application for EU membership.

With an open letter, TI BiH again submitted proposals to the Ministry of Justice and the Council of Ministers of BiH, with which all relevant international institutions agreed, which also earlier appealed for the adoption of the law.

Among other things, it is proposed to expand the circle of persons to whom the law will be applied, to prevent the misuse of public resources for political promotion, as well as the establishment of the Conflict of Interest Commission.

(FENA) A. B.

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