During June, July and August of this year, the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina (June 26, 2023), the Government of the Republika Srpska (July 14, 2023), the Government of Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina (June 7, 2023) and the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (August 4, 2023) adopted the Common Platform on the principles and method of implementing of public administration reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Common Platform represents a political and legal framework for the cooperation of administrative authorities of all levels of government in the process of public administration reform in BiH, as well as for the implementation of the PAR Strategic Framework and the accompanying Action plan.
The Common Platform is applied in the implementation of reform measures that have been determined as joint and individual, and aims to ensure the implementation of reform measures and activities in order to achieve the established reform goals in the field of public administration in BiH and to achieve one of the 14 priority conditions that BiH should fulfill before starting negotiations on membership in the European Union.
The principles on which the Common Platform is based define the basic framework for the implementation of reform measures as political support, partnership of all levels of government and efficiency, and the importance of preserving a systemic and coherent approach to public administration reform in order to achieve common principles of public administration. At the same time, the state of public administration at different levels of government, organizationally, legally and functionally, is not balanced so that the continuation of joint activities on the implementation of measures should not slow down any level in further reform interventions.
After the harmonization and adoption of this document, it is expected to hold the first meeting of the Coordination Committee – a political body, which should lead and direct the process of public administration reform in BiH. Coordination Committee means an intergovernmental working body consisted of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Prime Minister of the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska, the Mayor of the Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as relevant ministers/representatives of the Government of the Brčko District of BiH of all levels of government, depending on the point of the agenda which is under discussion.