30 Apr Second report on the monitoring of corruption cases before courts in BiH

The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) presented today in Sarajevo its second report on the monitoring of corruption cases before courts in BiH. The report concludes that the judicial response to corruption in BiH is insufficient, particularly with regard to processing of medium and high-level cases.

The report „Trial Monitoring of Corruption Cases in BiH: Second Assessment”, draws on and builds upon the work presented in the first ARC report issued in February 2018. The report, comprising eight chapters, presents 24 recommendations aimed at improving the judicial response to corruption, based on findings from the monitoring and assessment of 300 cases in courts at all levels of authority across BiH in 2017 and 2018.

The report, inter alia, finds that the performance of the justice system with respect to the productivity of prosecutor’s offices and courts, the capacity of prosecutors and judges in the application of the law and their efficiency in processing cases is affected by serious problems.   

The report was developed within the framework of the project “Assessing Needs of Judicial Response to Corruption through Monitoring of Criminal Cases” supported by the United States Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.  

The main objective of the Project is to identify and analyze problems in the quality and effectiveness of judicial response to corruption at the legislative, institutional and individual capacity level, as well as to propose adequate and feasible measures to address these problems.

Here you can find the report:

https://www.osce.org/mission-to-bosnia-and-herzegovina/417527?download=true

References from the official website of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe