Reports on excise and tax laws removed from House of Peoples agenda

Reports on changes to the excise and tax laws were removed from the agenda of the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina PABiH The collegium of this house removed the points before the actual session, which was pointed out by Sefik Dzaferovic and emphasizing that they should not have done that.

Before the House of Peoples session, a meeting of the Collegium was held with the aim of determining the agenda, which normally consists of Dragan Covic HDZ Nikola Spiric SNSD and Kemal Ademovic NiP. On that occasion they removed five items from the agenda, including amendments to the law on excises and taxes, which passed all the necessary harmonization and adoption, except in this House yesterday.

SDA delegates Sefik Dzaferovic pointed out that the points should not have been removed because everyone should decide on that.

The collegium has decided that it is not on the agenda. I think that you do not have the authority, that authority can only have this House, and do not make it your business. He said that there is no need to invite us here if you can do it yourself to make decisions and decide the agenda.

He pointed out that the House of Peoples' Collegium must include draft laws with opinions, reports of commissions and all other mandatory items in the agenda, according to Article 60 of the Rules of Procedure. He pointed out the mandatory points.

Mandatory points are those that passed the procedure in accordance with the Rules of Procedure or if requested unanimously by the House's committee. This procedure that you removed passed is the same. Both houses adopted, the texts were agreed in the committees, the House of Representativesadopted it, and the House of Peoples collegium said today that will not be at the session. Dzarovic asked yesterday.

The delegate can ask for the omission of any optional point in the beginning of the session of the House, according to Article 62 of the Rules of Procedure. There isn't a majority in the House for it to happen, despite an individual vote on whether excise taxes and VAT will be returned to the agenda.