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.
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Displaying 6 - 10 of 46Regulation on supervision over the elaboration of the forestry fundamentals.
This Regulation hereby prescribes the mandatory supervision rules, aimed at the control over the execution of the preparation of forest-economic documents or plans (for private and state owned forests).Forest-economic planning documents are projects assignment for the preparation of the forest-economic basis, including the classification of forests and forest land in ecological-productive terms, with the aim of determining the technical objectives of forest management (such as creation of spatial units, the marking of their boundaries in the field, the recording of boundaries and their mapp
Regulation on the conditions and manner of leasing of forest land owned by Republic of Srpska.
This Regulation sets the conditions governing the procedures and terms for obtaining the lease of specific forest land parcel if public/state owned; and only if not previously assigned/intended for different purpose (if not part of the area covered with strategic environmental or planning documents).This Regulation provides for administrative requirements, economic related provisions, procedural issues and contents for contracts to be stipulated in relation with lease requests.
Implements: Forest Law (Republic of Srpska). (2008-07-17)
Law on property rights.
This Law lays down the general interest principles regarding the acquisition, seizure, use, disposal, protection and termination of rights on property, including several deriving real estate/physical property rights, also in relation with state property (public land).
Law amending the Law on expropriation (Republic of Srpska).
This Law amends some articles part of the rules brought by the Law on expropriation (Official Gazette of the Republic of Srpska 112/2006 and 37/2007).Changes are related to the: (article 33, paragraph 1-7) right to possess the expropriated immovable property upon the date of the final expropriation decision; further decides that the beneficiary of the expropriation (if unit of local self-government), acquires the right to possess an expropriated real estate by the date of validity of the expropriation decision, if until then the previous owner was fully paid (compensation for expropriated i
Law amending the Law on expropriation (Republic of Srpska).
This Law amends certain provisions stipulated by the Law on expropriation (Official Gazette of the Republic of Srpska 112/2006).Major changes are related to the: (article 3) general purpose and role of the law that now states that the immovability can be expropriated for the purpose of carrying out works or building facilities in the fields of: health, education, social protection, culture, water management, sports, traffic, energy, telecommunication and communal infrastructure, facilities for the needs of state and local self-government bodies, industrial facilities, environmental protecti