No further developments observed.

No further developments observed.

By 2002, as mandated by Annex 9 of the General Framework Agreement, public corporations were established. Along with establishing public corporations, privatization was also initiated. Also, a $5 billion priority reconstruction plan (World Bank as lead) was implemented.

The five-member CPC met on 17 April 2001 after a five-month hiatus and agreed to move forward with work on the analysis and design of new public corporations in the fields of gas transportation, power transmission, radio transmission infrastructure, and posts.¹

The Commission on Public Corporations (CPC) met on 14 February 2000 to consider and approve the agreement establishing a Joint Road Infrastructure Public Corporation for BiH. In the meeting, Working Groups on Public Corporation on Posts, Public Corporation for the Gas Sector, and Public Corporation for Ports presented progress reports.³

On July 30, 1999, the High Representative made a decision on the restructuring of the public Broadcasting system in BiH and on freedom of information and the decriminalization of libel and defamation.⁴ As of 1999, the railway and electricity corporations were functioning well.

In his 8th report to the U.N. Secretary General, the High Representative said that the establishment of the Transportation Corporation was dead in paper. It was said that the OHR called upon the authorities of both entities to implement the recommendation on railroads by 31 March 1998 and urged entities to establish their joint corporations. In this regard, the OHR was very much involved.⁵

By the end of March 1998, however, a consensus was reached in creating a joint railway public corporation. In a meeting held on 19 March, railway experts from both entities suggested that trains could run in a major part of the network, despite some technical difficulties.⁶ Finally on April 6, the Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Railway Public Corporation was established by the Prime Ministers of both Entities.⁸

It was reported that the Commission met on 6 July 1998, in the presence of the ministers of energy of both the Federation and the RS, to discuss the possible creation of a Public Corporation for electric power transmission.⁹

The three existing Elektoprivedas signed an agreement to establish a Joint Power Coordination Center for the transmission of electric power, effective on 3 November 1998, and reached agreement on the successive implementation phases.¹⁰

In early February of 1997, “the Commission for Public Corporations established a Railways Commission and four Working Groups to address the different aspects of the problem. Progress has however floundered on the differing concepts of the railways structure.” According to the report of High Representative to the UN Secretary General, the Commission on Public Corporations had not reached any agreement on possible institutional structures for joint public facilities. Also, “the Commission has refused to give any guidance to the technical working groups which have been created to examine specific operational problems in some areas.”⁷

Because the Commission on Public Corporations did not help technical working groups, the High Representative’s legal office issued a legal opinion on the status of public corporations. Following this, the Commission on Public Corporations agreed that railway inter-entity traffic be promptly re-established. It was reported that the commission was set to examine the energy sector, and the working group would work on creating a body between the two entities in order to increase coordination and devise a joint policy in the field.¹¹ As of December 1997, there were no functioning public corporations in Bosnia.

On 14 March 1996, the High Representative for the implementation of the civilian aspect of the Dayton Accord submitted his first report to the Secretary of the U.N. In the report, he mentioned that all parties had nominated representatives to the Commission on Public Corporations.

In a June Office of the High Representative (OHR) Bulletin, it was reported that the EBRD decided to establish its representative office in Sarajevo to closely follow progress in the work of the Commission on Public Corporations.¹²

There was no information available on the setting up of the mentioned public corporations.