RS Official Gazette Publishes Laws Banning Operation of Some State Institutions

Milorad Dodik (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC)

The Republika Srpska Official Gazette has published RS President Milorad Dodik's decrees on enacting laws that ban the Bosnian state court and prosecutor's office and State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) from operating in RS territory.

The report was published on the X social network on March 6 by acting RS Official Gazette director Milos Lukic who was tried like Dodik by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the non-implementation of the high representative's decisions.

Lukic was acquitted unlike Dodik who was sentenced to one year in prison and banned from performing the office of RS president for six years. The Official Gazette also published amendments to the RS penal code which envisage prison sentences and a ban on performing public office for any RS servants in Bosnia's joint institutions who do not respect the decisions of the RS authorities.

A Law on the RS High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council was also published by the Official Gazette whereby the entity's authorities will no longer recognize the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina's prerogatives as well as a law on a Special Register and the Public Operation of Nonprofit Organizations was also published. This law is known as the law "on foreign agents." The aforementioned laws were adopted by the RS People's Assembly immediately after the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced Dodik.