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BiH PA Finance and Budget Committee supports Draft Law on Public Procurement

FENA Hana Imamović

SARAJEVO, September 14 (FENA) - Members of the Committee on Finance and Budget of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina supported at today's session the new text of the Draft Law on Public Procurement in BiH proposed by the caucus of the Democratic Front (DF).

This is the first phase, and tomorrow at the session of the House, the deputies should vote on the Draft Law, which the proposer claims brings transparency in the public procurement process and is fully harmonized with European Union directives.

Explaining the reasons for proposing the new law, a member of the Committee, Đenan Džonlagić (DF), emphasized the importance of the public procurement process throughout BiH, noting that the contracting authority and the public procurement officer will now have a special responsibility in that process.

"It is a novelty in relation to the existing law. There is also the competence and role of the Public Procurement Agency to offer the public all elements of the process and to publish them on the website," he said, adding that there are 20 new provisions that precisely define exemptions from public procurement.

Speaking about the fight against corruption in that segment, Đonlagić stated that the space for so-called "professional complainants" who are systematically postponing the procurement process has been reduced in an evident manner and that the cost of the complaint procedure has been made ten times more expensive. 

"The appeal procedure remains and it exists in this law, but the increase in the cost of the procedure seeks to demotivate any attempt at manipulation. Also, any attempt to abuse or manipulate the procedure will be prosecuted as a crime," explained Đonlagić.

The law will go through a regular procedure and there will be time for it to be amended, said Đonlagić, and the chairman of the Committee, Predrag Kožul (the Croat Democratic Union - HDZ), also called for all necessary opinions to be obtained before the law is put before the parliament.

Director of the Public Procurement Agency of BiH Kenan Vehabović said that the proposed law does not differ much from the one that the Agency worked on with the representatives of the EU Delegation and the non-governmental sector.

He noted that EU directives have been complied with, contain anti-corruption provisions, the law provides for criminal liability for certain actions, and introduces the responsibility of public procurement officials, which has not existed until now, which is why the Agency, says Vehabović, supports the new law proposed by the DF.

(FENA) S. R.

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