Constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2005-06

European Yearbook of Minority Issues

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 207-218

  Marko, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

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EID: 84882685621     PISSN: 15707865     EISSN: 22116117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22116117-90000045     Document Type: Review

References (29)

1. The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina with Annexes, 14 December 1995, 35 I . L . M . 75, available at http://www.ohr.int/dpa/default.asppcontent_ id=380.
2. Constitution of the Serb Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sluzbeni glasnik Republike Srpske (Offical Gazette of RS), No. 3/92, 16 March 1992.
3. See Arend Lijphart, "Consociational Democracy", 21 WorldPolitics (1969), 207-225; and id., Patterns ofDemocracy (Yale University Press, New Haven, London, 1999).
4. Joseph Marko, "Post-conflict Reconstruction through State- and Nation-building:TheCase of Bosnia and Herzegovina", 4 European Diversity and Autonomy Papers - EDAP (2005), at http://www.eurac.edu/edap.
5. Christian Schwarz-Schilling: "Less Is More", weekly column in Dnevni Avaz, Nezavisne Novine, Vecernji List, 21 July 2006, available at http://www.ohr.int/ohr-dept/presso/pressa/default.asp?content_id=37682.
6. See in general also David Chandler, Bosnia. Faking Democracy after Dayton (Pluto Press, London, 1999);
7. and Christophe Solioz and Tobias K. Vogel (eds.), Dayton and Beyond: Perspectives on the Future ofBosnia and Herzegovina (Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2004).
8. U N H C R, Returns Summary to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1 January 1996 to 31 January 2005, available at http://www.unhcr.ba.
9. Joseph Marko, "Five Years of Constitutional Jurisprudence in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A First Balance", 7 European Diversity and Autonomy Papers - EDAP (2004), at http://www.eurac.edu/edap.
10. Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Case No. U-44/01, 22 September 2004, Sluzbeni glasnik BiH, No.18/04.
11. Zakon o Drzavnojgranicnoj sluzbi Bosne i Hercegovine (Law on the State Border Service of BiH), Sluzbeni glasnik BiH, No. 19/01 and 50/04.
12. OHR, Decision establishing the BiH State Court, 12 November 2000, available at http:// www.ohr.int/decisions/statemattersdec/default.asp?content_id=362.
13. Zakon o porezu na dodatu vrijednost (Law on the Value Added Tax), Sluzbeni glasnik BiH, No. 09/05 and Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama zakona oporezu na dodatu vrijednost (Amendments to the Law on the Value Added Tax), Sluzbeni glasnik BiH, No. 35/05, 6 June 2005.
14. OHR, Decision on Constitutional Amendments in Republika Srpska, 19 April 2002, Sluzbeni glasnik RS No. 21/02, 25 April 2002 available at http://www.ohr.int/print/ ?content_id=7474
15. and OHR, Decision on Constitutional Amendments in the Federation, 19 April 2002, Sluzbene Novine FBiH, No. 16/02, 28 April 2002, available at http://www. ohr.int/print/?content_id=7475.
16. For more information on the Council of Europe's Secretariat of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, see the webpage http://www.coe.int/T/E/ Human_Rights/Minorities.
17. A comprehensive review of the legal situation of minorities and constituent peoples is given in Danica Railic and Joseph Marko, Minderheitenschutz im ostlichen Europa. Bosnien und Herzegovina (Cologne, Graz, 2005), at http://www.uni-graz.at/suedosteuropa.
18. For the respective Serb and Croat positions see the recently published volumes: Bozo Zepic, Pat pozicija u Bosni i Hercegovini (Stalemateposition in BiH), (Mostar, 2005);
19. and Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Republike Srpske, Republika Srpska - Desetgodina dajtonskog mirovnog sporazuma (Academy of Sciences of RS, RS - Ten years of the Dayton PeaceAgreement), (Banja Luka, 2005).
20. See also the study prepared on behalf of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung by Kasim Trnka, Mato Tadic and Mile Dimcic, Zehn Jahre Implementierung von Dayton. Der WegBosnien undHerzegowinas in die Zukunft (Sarajevo, Banja Luka, 2005).
21. See in particular the opinions of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission), Opinion on the Constitutional Situation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Powers ofthe High Representative, CDL-AD (2005)004, 11 March 2005;
22. Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Resolution 1513 (2006);
23. Markus Bickel, Studien zur Ldnderbezogenen Konfliktanalyse. Bosnien und Herzegowina (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn, November 2005);
24. Otto Luchterhandt, "Die Verfassungsdebatte. Zwischen-bilanz und Herausforderungen fur Bosnien-Herzegowina" (unpublished manuscript). help to resolve the problems of BiH as a 'weak' or even 'failing state' in the heart of Europe.
25. Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, U-5/98, Partial Decision I I, 19 February 2000, Sluzbeni glasnik BiH, No. 17/00, 30 June 2000, paras. 12 and 13.
26. See in particular Damir Amaut, "Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Legal and Constitutional Analysis" (unpublished manuscript).
27. Venice Commission, Preliminary Opinion on the Draft Amendments to the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, CDL(2006)027, 7 April 2006.
28. Ivan Lovrenovic, "Parlament i promjene" ("Parliament and Changes"), in Dani, 24 March 2006, No. 458;
29. and Mirza Cubro, "Promjene" ("Changes"), in Nezavisne, 21 April 2006.