Bosnia and Herzegovina declared sovereignty in October 1991 and independence from the former Yugoslavia on 3 March 1992 after a referendum boycotted by ethnic Serbs. The Bosnian Serbs - supported by neighboring Serbia and Montenegro - responded with armed resistance aimed at partitioning the republic along ethnic lines and joining Serb-held areas to form a "Greater Serbia." In March 1994, Bosniaks and Croats reduced the number of warring factions from three to two by signing an agreement creating a joint Bosniak-Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. On 21 November 1995, in Dayton, Ohio, the warring parties initialed a peace agreement that ended three years of interethnic civil strife (the final agreement was signed in Paris on 14 December 1995).
The Dayton Peace Accords retained Bosnia and Herzegovina's international boundaries and created a multiethnic and democratic government charged with conducting foreign, diplomatic, and fiscal policy. Also recognized was a second tier of government composed of two entities roughly equal in size: the predominantly Bosniak-Bosnian Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the predominantly Bosnian Serb-led Republika Srpska (RS). The Federation and RS governments are responsible for overseeing most government functions. Additionally, the Dayton Accords established the Office of the High Representative to oversee the implementation of the civilian aspects of the agreement. The Peace Implementation Council at its conference in Bonn in 1997 also gave the High Representative the authority to impose legislation and remove officials, the so-called "Bonn Powers." An original NATO-led international peacekeeping force (IFOR) of 60,000 troops assembled in 1995 was succeeded over time by a smaller, NATO-led Stabilization Force (SFOR). In 2004, European Union peacekeeping troops (EUFOR) replaced SFOR. Currently, EUFOR deploys around 600 troops in theater in a security assistance and training capacity.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a parliamentary republic.
Source: CIA World Factbook
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Displaying 26 - 30 of 46Regulation on basic geodetic works.
This Regulation prescribes all necessary rules and requirements aimed to correctly define the basic geodetic works on the territory of the Republic of Srpska, and all other works and/or activities related to the construction, management and maintenance of the state geodetic reference system (on a global and local level).State geodetic reference system represents a coordinated system with concrete geometrical and physical relationship to the land parcels and geodetic parameters.The Annex is an integral part of this Regulation.
Implements: Law on state survey and cadastre. (2003)
Regulation on the manner, conditions and procedure of assigning survey works.
This Regulation prescribes the correct manner, conditions and procedures for official assigning of survey works on the territory of the Republic of Srpska, handled and to be authorized by the State Geodetic and Property Affairs direction, that has power to offer and grant land survey to state, public and private companies.
Regulation on digital geodetic plan.
This Regulation defines the issues, contents and concrete scopes, rules and requirements, technical and other norms necessary for the correct functioning of the digital geodetic plan (complete digital state survey of land parcels), as well as maintenance and public informing principles.
Implements: Law on state survey and cadastre. (2003)
Law amending the Law on land book.
This Law amends various provisions provided by the Law on land book (Official Gazette 67/2003 and 46/2003).Changes are related to the compensations and other administrative issues regarding the obtained concessions and mining/exploitation authorizations.
Amends: Law on land book. (2002-10-21)
Law amending the Law on state survey and cadastre.
This Law amends some of the provisions part of the Law on state survey and cadastre (Official Gazette 55/2003).Changes are regarding the entry into force and the mandatory repeal of certain previous laws.
Amends: Law on state survey and cadastre. (2003)