For Nikšić, Schmidt imposing the Election Law is 'law as law', but imposing on state property is something else!

By: A. Čorbo-Zećo

"But if the High Representative imposes it, it is law for us and we will behave accordingly," said Nermin Nikšić, leader of the SDP, today, responding to the question of what if the High Representative imposes changes to the Election Law of BiH.

In fact, Nikšić said that it is a law like any other law. But the SDP leader, in his double standards, forgot that it is not always the case.

Nermin Nikšić and the Government of FBiH, through the draft law on construction land, are derogating the High Representative's previous decision prohibiting the disposal of state property, but apparently, in this case, for Nikšić, it is not 'law as law'.

The law itself regulates the acquisition and protection of rights to construction land, as well as the termination of public property status and the regulation of construction land.

"Fees are prescribed for the use of construction land, and the rights and obligations of local self-government units and owners towards each other are defined when it comes to planned construction and bringing construction land to its permanent purpose...".

Article 4 of the Draft Law states: "Construction land shall be disposed of by its owners, under the conditions and limitations determined by this law and other valid regulations. (2) Construction land registered in the land registry as social, state property, public property or treasury without the registered right of use by another person, if it has not become the property of another person by operation of law, after the entry into force of this law shall be registered as the property of the municipality, the municipality within the City of Sarajevo or the city (hereinafter: local self-government unit) in whose territory it is located, in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Real Rights ("Official Gazette of the Federation of BiH", Nos. 66/13 and 100/13), unless otherwise regulated by a special law".

Previously, the Law on Construction Land stated: "City construction land can be state-owned or privately owned".

And the Government of FBiH has already tried a precedent in the way of disposing of state property in the case of reclassifying state forest in the area of the municipality of Vareš.

Previously, the provision on the necessary consent of the Legal Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina was deleted from the Decision on reclassification and temporary use of forest land.

There is nothing wrong with that, the federal prime minister has stated many times, and today we have learned that it is not always 'law as law', and that explanations that 'nothing is wrong' without valid arguments can no longer pass even with SDP voters.