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Constitutional-Legal Committee of the House of Representatives

 

Competencies

The Constitutional-Legal Committee monitors the compliance with the BiH Constitution; considers issues significant for the constitutional order of Bosnia and Herzegovina and launch initiatives to amend the BiH Constitution; examines and provides the House with opinions on proposed amendments to the BiH Constitution; conducts public hearing on proposed amendments to the BiH Constitution or to draft laws as well as informs the House on the results of the public hearing; considers draft laws to be adopted by the House in terms of their harmonization with the BiH Constitution and its the legal system and the principles on which the draft law is based, when it is designated as a competent Committee, i.e. in relation to legal processing and presents a report to the House that includes opinions and proposals as well as legal and technical corrections of errors evident in the text; considers the issues of legislative methodology and other issues of importance for the harmonization of legal and technical processing of acts to be adopted by the House; submits opinions to the BiH Constitutional Court; participates in preparing the work program for legislative activities of the House; finalizes, together with the appropriate Committee of the House of Peoples, when and if so authorized by both Houses, the proposal of the official version of the clarified text of draft law and other regulations, to be adopted by both Houses of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH. 


The Committee considers issues regarding the legal system; electoral system; BiH Council of Ministers; national holidays; coat-of-arms, flag and national anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina, seals of Bosnia and Herzegovina; state administration; enforcement of international and domestic criminal legislation and other issues under the House’s competence that are not covered by the scope of activities of other committees.

Sessions

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Annual reports

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