Constitution

International Agreements

Comprehensive peace agreement 1995

Annex 1a – Agreement on the Military Aspects of the Peace Settlement

Annex 1b – Agreement on Regional Stabilization

Annex 2 – Agreement on Inter-Entity Boundary Line and Related Issues

Annex 3 – Agreement on elections

Annex 4 – Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Annex 5 – Agreement on Arbitration

Annex 6 – Agreements on human rights

Annex 7 – Agreement on Refugees and Displaced Persons

Annex 8 – Agreement on Commission to Preserve National Monuments

Annex 9 – Agreement on Establishment of Bosnia and Herzegovina Public Corporations

Annex 10 – The General Framework Agreement in 1995

Annex 11 – Dayton international police forces 

Texts

Constitution of srpska amendments 92-96

Constitution (coordinated text of 2003)

Constitution of 1995

Constitution 2005 established text

Religious Communities

National and international agreements

Basic Agreement between the Holy See and Bosnia

Additional protocol to the Basic Agreement between the Holy See and Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2006

Agreement with the Holy See for the Pastoral Care in the Armed Forces 2010

The Constitution of the Islamic community – Sarajevo 1997 amended in 2006

Regulation and organization of work of the Islamic community of Rijaseta 2015 

Laws and decrees

Associations and foundations law in 2010

Law on voluntarism 2012

Regulations for the registration of legal persons

Law on associations and foundations 2001

Draft law on non-working days during religious holidays in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Law on non-working days during the religious holidays in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Explanation on law on non-working days during the religious holidays in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Proposal by the Eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church about non-working days during the religious holidays in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Report by the Jewish Community about non-working days during the religious holidays in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Opinion by the Office for legislation of the Council of Ministers concerns regarding the law on non-working days the bill on religious holidays in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Opinion by the Ministry of Civil Affairs on the draft law on non-working days during religious festivals in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Opinion by the Ministry of Justice concerning the draft law on non-working days during religious festivals in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Subject : draft law on public holidays in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Inter-religious Council in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Report sent by Inter-religious Council in Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Ministery of Civil Affairs related to the communication of the Islamic Community about the draft law on public holidays

Communication related to the draft law on public holidays in Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Opinion by the Ministry of Local Self-Government regarding the draft law on public holidays during religious festivals in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Opinion by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social politics regarding the draft law on public holidays during the religious festivals in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Opinion by the Government of Brcko District regarding the draft law on public holidays during religious festivals in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Rules for the holding of the register of associations, foundations and foreign and international non-governmental organizations 2002

Registration Form for Religious Associations

Law on Associations and Foundations in 2002

Appeal of the Greek-Catholic eparchy Vicariate of Križevačke on the recognition of legal personality against the decision of the District Court of Banja Luka 2013 

Statutes and internal rules

Law on the recognition of Muslim’ Hanafi rite as a religious society in 1912

Constitution of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Sarajevo 1997

Constitution of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Sarajevo 1997 amended in 2006

Registration in the register of the religious communities of the cultural center of the Islamic community in Mostar

Registration in the register of religious communities of the Pastoral Youth Center of the Catholic Church

Statute of the Ilmiyyah Association of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2008

Statute of the Bosnian bishops’ conference 2003

Statute for the autonomous administration of Muslim religious matters and vakuf affairs 1909

Statement of Shared Moral Commitment

Political Declaration from Ministerial Meeting of the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council 

Regulations, decisions, provisions, ordinances, circulars

Guide for the registration of associations in 2011

Ordinance on the register of churches and religious groups

Instructions for the application of the law on religious freedom

Rules for the establishment and maintenance of unified register for the registration of churches and religious communities, their associations and organizational forms

Form for a registration in a single register of churches and religious communities

Form for a registration of new subject different of the othes already enrolled

Form containing the name of the person authorized to represent the religious confession

Form for a registration of the new legal entity in the list of registred religious confessions

Form for changing the registration in the register of the Ministry

Form for cancelation from the list of legal entities registered 

Bodies and Church Properties

Confiscation, Restitution and Compensation of Properties of Religious Communities

Law on Agrarian Reform and Resettlement in Bosnia in 1945

Law on Agrarian Reform and Resettlement in Bosnia in 1946

Decree amending the law on nationalization of the land April 10, 1990

Decree amending the law on nationalization of the land December 10, 1990

Criteria for the Designation of Ownership of National Monuments 2002

Decisions on changes to criteria for designation of properties such as national monuments 2003

Regulation on Commission activities to preserve national monuments and international cooperation 2002

Law implementing the decisions of the Commission for the protection of national monuments 2002

Amendments to the Medical Insurance Act 2002

Amendments to the Law on the Protection of Goods in Accordance with Commission for the protection of National Monuments 2002

Law on use of abandoned properties 2003

Commission’s internal rules for preserving national monuments 2006

Draft law on restitution, 2006 – not approved

Law on the Protection of Goods decided by the Commission for the Protection of National Monuments in 2002

Protection of the assets identified by Commission for the protection of national monuments in 2002

Law on denationalization 2007 

Taxation

Law on Income Tax 2008

Companies Act 2005

Law on Value Added Tax 2005

Amendments to the Value Added Tax in 2005 

Construction of Worship And Urban Planning

Laws and decrees

Law on deserted apartments, 2003

Amendments to the law on the sale of apartments to which the Labour Law is applicable, 2006

Law on the regulation of space and construction, 2010 – repealed

Law on the regulation of space and construction, 2013

Decision of the Constitutional Court on the on the illegitimacy of some articles of the Law on the rent of apartments, 2015

Sustenance of the Clergy and Financing of Religious Communities

Laws and decrees

Law on health care in 2010

Amendments to the Medical Insurance Act 2002

Health Insurance Act in 1997 

Regulations, decisions, provisions, ordinances, circulars

Decision on concerning criteria for funds granting to churches and religious groups centres 2016

Amendment to the Regulation on the Institution and management of the churches and religious groups’ register of income 2018

Individual and Collective Religious Freedom and Minorities

Conscientious Objection

Law on freedom of religion and on the legal position of churches religious communities 2004

Law on human rights – Ombudsman 2004

Law on human rights – Ombudsman updated to 2015

Law on Volunteering 2008

Law on Medical Practice 2013

Law on Medical Practice Bos-Herz Zakon o-lijecnistvu-FBiH

Law on Humanitarian Activities and Humanitarian Organizations in 1998 abstract

Amendments to the Law on Humanitarian Organizations Activities in 1998 

Case law

Decision of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina the appeal of Ms. Fata Orlović in case no. AP-4492/14

Press Release and summary of the Orlović and a. Against Bosnia and Herzegovina

Separate dissenting opinion of judge Seada Palavrić joined by President Mirsad Ćeman, Vice-President Margarita Tsatsa-Nikolovska and judge Tudor Pantiru

Judgment of the ECHR no. 16332/18 on the case of Ms. Orlović and Others v. Bosnia and Herzegovina

Religious assistance

Law on Service in the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2005

Law against discrimination 2006

Law on prohibition of discrimination 2009

Law n. 46-10 on health care

Law on prisons, 2010

Youth law 2010

Law on the protection of minorities of Serbian Bosnia and Herzegovina Republic

Law on the use and protection od the Red Cross 2002

Law on minorities 2003

Decision no. 38-2006 on the establishment of the Council of National Minorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in 1995

Law on amendments of the Law on protection of rights for members of national minorities in 2005

Concluding Observations of the Committee on Responses of the Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees (CERD) in 2014

Replies of the Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees on the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination 2013

Law on Defense 2005

Law on Religious Freedom and the Legal Status of Churches and Religious Communities in 2004

Law on freedom of religion, belief and on the legal status of religious communities 2019

Cemeteries

Law on burial and cemeteries 

Emigration and Labour

Laws and decrees

Law on the general system of compulsory contributions to pension, disability insurance, health insurance and unemployment insurance

Labour Law in the institutions of Bosnia Herzegovina 2010

Aliens Act (88-2015)

Labour Code 2016 

Teaching of Religion and Religious Schools

Laws and decrees

Updating law on the Secondary Education Act in the Sarajevo Canton 2016

Updating law on the Elementary Education Act in the Sarajevo Canton 2016

Elementary Education Act in the Sarajevo Canton 2004

Elementary Education Act in the Sarajevo Canton – consolidated text in 2016

Education Act and preschool education in the Sarajevo Canton in 2008

Secondary Education Act in the Sarajevo Canton in 2010

Law amending the Elementary Education Act in the Sarajevo Canton 2013

Law on amendments on the Education and Elementary Education act in Sarajevo Canton in 2011 

Regulations, decisions, provisions, ordinances, circulars

Statute of the University of Sarajevo – Rules on the faculty of theology abstract

Establishment of the 2007 school and pre-school council

Framework law on higher education 2007

Changes to the framework law on higher education 2009

General law on pre-school education 2007

Law Elementary and Secondary Education Framework (18-2003)

Plan and Catholic religious education program for elementary school (2003)

Government of the Canton of Sarajevo – Updating the evaluation of the Decision in matter of Religion in 2011

Decision of the Ministry of Education and Science – on the evaluation concerning Religion 2011

Constitutional Court decision no. U 5-98-IV in 2000

Constitutional Court of September 1 2000 – Case U/59

Constitutional Court decision no. U 62-01 in 2002

Constitutional Court decision no. U 39-11 in 2012, on Elementary Education Act in the Sarajevo Canton 

Provisions of the Criminal Code

Codes

Criminal code 1998

Criminal Code of the District SPRSKA 2000 (english version)

Criminal Code of the BRCKO District 2001 (english version)

New criminal code 2003

Laws and decrees

Bosnia-Herzegovina Law on enforcement of criminal sanctions, detention and other measures 2010 abstract

Law on breach of certain criminal laws

Law on Protection from Violence in the Family (20-2013)

Law on the execution of criminal sanctions abstract

Law on the public assembly, 2009

Law on the public assembly 

Family

Laws and decrees

Equality Act and Gender Equality 2003

Gender Equality Act 2010

Changes to the law on termination of pregnancy 2013

Changes to the law on termination of pregnancy 2014

Changes to the law on termination of pregnancy 2015

Law on the Brcko District Family (23-2007)

Law on Family (35-2005) 

Provisions of the Civil Code

Laws and decrees

Law on festivities

Law on Civil Registration Records, 2012

Civil Procedure Act 

Museums, Libraries, Archives and Cultural Heritage

Laws and decrees

Law on national parks, Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2010

Law on Libraries, 1995

Law on cultural goods 2008

Heritage Conservation Act in 2002 

Administration Policies and Procedures

Laws and decrees

Changes and updates on municipal services in the District of Brcko, 2013

Law on municipal services, 2013

Law on Administrative Procedure, Bosnia, 2002

Law on Administrative Procedure, Bosnia , 2013 

Regulations, decisions, provisions, ordinances, circulars

Regulation establishing guidelines for the introduction of Christmas and other holidays in organizational models 2004

European Union

Guidelines and Recommendations

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989

European Commission Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2018

European Parliament Report Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2019