BOSNIAN GOVERNMENT HELD 19TH SESSION

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (August 29,2007) – The Bosnian government adopted the report tabled by the Bosnian Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations on the situation at the wheat market, together with a proposal of measures for alleviating the effects of the draught and stabilising the increase of the prices of flour and other wheat products at the Bosnian market.

The Bosnian Council of Ministers has called on the Bosnian Parliament to urgently adopt the Law changing the Customs Tariff Law in order to make possible the import of 100.000 tones of wheat free of customs.

The Council of Ministers tasked the Bosnian Ministry of Finance and Treasury to request the Indirect Taxation Authority to reduce VAT to 5 percent for the import of 100.000 tones of wheat.

The Bosnian Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations has been tasked to through Bosnia's representatives maximally intensify activities on urgently convening a meeting of interagency commission for monitoring agreements on free trade with Serbia and Croatia.
This ministry has been also tasked to monitor the situation in this field, to inform the Council of Ministers and to propose possible further measures.

The Bosnian government also held a consultative discussion on the framework budget for 2008-2010.

The relevant ministry has been tasked to forward the framework budget to the Bosnian Presidency.

This document shows an overall increase of spending by the Bosnian state institutions in the amount of 861,8 million Bosnian Marks for 2008, which represents a 14,9 percent increase compared to spending planned for 2007.

The Bosnian Council of Ministers also defined the proposal pf the law on adopting the law changing and amending the Bosnian Criminal Procedure Law. The Bosnian Ministry of Justice will forward this piece of legislation to the Bosnian Parliament for adoption.

This bill adopts the law changing and amending the Bosnian Criminal Procedure Law, which was endorsed by the High Representative on a temporary basis.

The Bosnian Council of Ministers concluded to withdraw from parliamentary procedure the proposal oof the law changing ad amending the Bosnian Criminal Procedure Law, which it adopted on June 20.

The Council defined the proposal of the law on establishing the BiH Bureau for implementing criminal sanctions, detention and other measures.

This law establishes the Bureau and identifies East Sarajevo, East Ilidza Municipality, as the headquarters of the Bureau. It also defines the construction of the building that will house the Bureau.

The Bosnian Council of Ministers also adopted the proposal of the law changing and amending the Law on the Bosnian State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) and tasked the Bosnian Ministry of Security to forward it to the Bosnian Parliament.

This law defines cooperation with the INTERPOL General Secretariat and central state offices of INTERPOL, EUROPOL, SECI and other international police organisations.