STEVANDIĆ: REPUBLIKA SRPSKA RESPONDS WITH ITS OWN ACTS TO INCOMPLETE CONSTITUTIONALCOURT DECISIONS

BANJA LUKA, APRIL 2 /SRNA/ – The Speaker of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska Nenad Stevandić told SRNA that following the decision of the incomplete Constitutional Court of BiH declaring certain provisions of the Law on Police and the Ministry of Interior of Srpska unconstitutional, everything will be resolved through another act.

“The incomplete Constitutional Court can deal with this all its life. They pass one act, we pass another,” Stevandić said. The President of Republika Srpska Siniša Karan said in an interview to SRNA that the aim of declaring certain provisions of the Law on Police and the Ministry of Interior unconstitutional by the incomplete Constitutional Court is a continuation of police reform and an attempt to strip Republika Srpska of its original competencies. He explained that the original competence of the MOI is to carry out records, processing, and personalization of all personal documents, while the Agency for Identification Documents, Records and Data Exchange of BiH is a technical service that should only process data technically. However, he noted that the decision of the incomplete Constitutional Court strengthens an institution that was intended to have a completely different purpose.