Dnevni avaz: The Directorate for European Integrations of BiH sent three translations of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) of BiH and the European Union in Brussels, where their administration will review the translations and give their agreement to the text of the Agreement, found out “Dnevni avaz”.
Planning of the activities
The expert commission, earlier formed by the Council of Ministers of BiH, translated the Agreement to three official languages in BiH – Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian language and yesterday sent it to Brussels. As the Director of the Directorate for European Integrations of BiH, Osman Topčagić, told us, in spite the delay in adoption of the law on police reform in the Parliament of BiH, technical preparations for signing the SAA are conducted according to plan.
"I have no signals that these last events in relation with the law on police reform will have effect on possible postponing of signing the Agreement. We still do everything as if the SAA will be signed on April 28, as we are told earlier from the European Commission, of course if all the requirements are met" said Topčagić.
He pointed out that the Commission for implementation of the SAA, in which besides the translators were also the lawyers and other experts, brought the sensitive process to an end.
"The Agreement is being translated since the beginning of the negotiations. It is, however, about the legal finesses and it took certain time to complete that" told us Topčagić.
According to the procedure of the European Union, if the laws on police reform are adopted, first the European Commission for Enlargement should propose to the highest body of the European Union, The Council of the EU, the signing of the Agreement.
Reaching of the agreement
Then the member states should agree on that within the Political and Security Committee, so the Agreement could be signed during the meeting of the EU Council for General and Foreign Affairs, which will be held on April 28 and 29 in Luxemburg. Signatures on the Agreement should put all the 27 ministers of foreign affairs of all the EU member states.
Lange tries to facilitate the procedures
As we found out, the Delegation of the European Commission will come from Brussels to BiH one day before the decision in the Parliament of BiH on the police reform, to regular meeting of the BiH Reform Process Monitoring Body.
The meeting should be held in Mostar, and it is possible that if the police reform laws are adopted, the head of the negotiating team of the EU, Dirk Lange, who otherwise leads the delegations, does not come to Mostar, so he could help in Brussels to end the procedures as soon as possible.