Nezavisne novine: The Parliament of BiH will not cancel individual and form the collective commissions of the both houses because of restricting procedure for adoption of the laws required for the integration of BiH in the EU, has been confirmed by Beriz Belkić, deputy speaker of the House of Representative of the Parliament. Initiative for uniting commissions of the House of Representatives and the House of Peoples of the Parliament of BiH has been proposed by delegate of the House of Representatives of the Parliament, Branko Dokić, explaining it with the need for pacing the procedure of the Law adoption.
“Establishing collective commissions has been initiated on the last plenary meeting of the Parliament. It did not get support then and it is hard to predict that it is going to be supported in the coming meetings. We do not need the collective commissions. We need positioning of the House of Peoples of the Parliament of BiH as an institution which will be responsible for protection of precisely designated vital national interests. When we make this, all the laws will not be examined in the both Houses, which will significantly shorten the time of their examination”, Belkić said. It has been regulated by the current Rules of Procedure that all the laws need to be examined first by the House of Representatives, and then by the House of Peoples of the Parliament of BiH. Before discussions on plenary meetings of the houses, all the laws pass the commission phase. They are being examined by Constitutional-Juristic commissions of both houses, and other authorized. “That is a complex procedure, but by the current law both houses of the state parliament are put in the same level. We already have several collective commissions, but that is not a solution”, has been said by Belkić.
Mladen Ivanić, speaker of the House of Peoples of the Parliament of BiH, claims that it is very hard to expect that all individual commissions become turned off and replaced by the collective ones. “I support the rationalization of work of the Parliament and pacing procedures wherever is possible. But it is impossible to cancel all commissions and leave the whole work to collective commissions”, Ivanić has concluded.