Competences

The Ministry of Justice was established in 2003, by the Law on Ministries and Other Administrative Bodies of Bosnia and Herzegovina ("Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina", No. 5/2003), and is responsible for:

• administrative functions related to judicial bodies at the state level;

• international and inter-entity judicial cooperation (mutual legal assistance and contacts with international tribunals);

• development of appropriate laws and regulations to regulate issues from paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article;

• ensuring that the legislation of BiH and its implementation at all levels are in accordance with the obligations of BiH arising from international agreements;

• cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and entities on the drafting of international bilateral and multilateral agreements;

• providing guidelines and monitoring legal education, in order to ensure inter-entity harmonization in this area and action in accordance with the best standards;

• general action as a central coordinating body for ensuring the harmonization of legislation and judicial system standards among entities, either by providing conditions for discussion or coordinating initiatives;

• extradition;

• tasks of administrative inspection over the execution of laws relating to civil servants and employees of administrative bodies, administrative procedure and special administrative procedures and office operations in administrative bodies;

• issues of citizens' associations, keeping registers of citizens' associations and non-governmental organizations operating on the territory of BiH;

• other jobs and tasks that are not within the competence of other ministries of BiH, but are related to the tasks within the competence of this ministry.