Jurisdictions

The Ministry of Justice was established in 2003, by the Law on Ministries and Other Administrative Bodies of Bosnia and Herzegovina ("Official Gazette of BiH", 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);

• the enactment of appropriate laws and regulations to regulate the matters referred to in 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 in the drafting of international bilateral and multilateral agreements;

• providing guidance and monitoring legal education, in order to ensure inter-entity harmonisation in this area and compliance with the best standards;

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

• extradition;

• administrative inspection duties over the enforcement of laws relating to civil servants and employees of administrative bodies, administrative procedure, and special administrative procedures and office management in administrative bodies;

• Matters concerning citizens' associations, and the keeping of registers of citizens' associations and non-governmental organisations operating in the territory of BiH;

• other tasks and duties which are not within the remit of other ministries of BiH, and are related to the tasks within the remit of this ministry.