FBiH Government Adopts Amendments: Senior Civil Servants Can No Longer Be Members of Management and Supervisory Boards

The Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at today's session in Mostar chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Federal Minister of Finance Jelka Milićević, acting on the authorization of FBiH Prime Minister Fadil Novalić, adopted amendments to the Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Civil Service in the FBiH, reports the Patria news agency.

One of the amendments introduces a provision stipulating that senior civil servants, with the exception of advisors, in civil service bodies are employed through a public competition conducted by the civil service body that employs them, with the aim of ensuring transparency and legality of their recruitment procedure.

A novelty is that senior civil servants, unlike civil servants, are prevented from being members of management and supervisory boards of federal institutes, federal directorates, federal agencies, and companies with state capital participation.

An amendment was also adopted harmonizing the provisions of the Law on Civil Service in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the Labor Law.

As part of the social protection reform in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina also adopted and forwarded to the parliamentary procedure the Draft Law on Foster Care.

According to the Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on the Basics of Social Protection, Protection of Civilian Victims of War, and Protection of Families with Children, adopted at today's session, the basis for calculating monthly cash benefits amounts to 274.40 convertible marks.

The FBiH Government today also amended the Decree on the Conditions and Method of Cash Payment.

One of the changes concerns Article 8 of the Decree, according to which business entities are obliged to deposit cash generated from their registered activity into their account opened with an authorized organization, no later than the following working day.

The content of this article has now been expanded so that, exceptionally, business entities whose daily cash inflow does not exceed 200 KM, or are located 15 or more kilometers away from the authorized organization, are obliged to deposit the cash no later than within five working days, and gambling organizers, in accordance with the regulation governing the organization of games of chance, are obliged to deposit cash for the previous seven days, ending on Sunday, no later than the following Tuesday.