Preliminary communication
Legal Aspects of Local Self-Government Financing in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Muhamed I. Mujakić
; Law Institute in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo
Abstract
The financing of local self-government influences the capacities of local units to perform their tasks. One cannot expect to receive high quality local services unless local units have sufficient financial means and are able to provide a wide range of services. The principle of local self-government financing is a basic principle guaranteed by the European Charter of Local Self-Government. The whole concept of local self-government and its functioning lose on their importance if there is not sufficient financial autonomy. The paper aims at presenting the basic issues of local self-government financing in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republic of Srpska. Some of the main international legal norms related to the financing of local self-government from the European Charter and national legal regulation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its entities are analysed in the paper. The analysis has shown that the funds allocated to Bosnian local self-government are far from sufficient. Furthermore, there is a significant difference in local self-government funding between the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which spends 8.42 per cent of its budget on local finances, and the Republic of Srpska, which spends 24 per cent.
Keywords
local self-government; financing; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Republic of Srpska; public revenues
Hrčak ID:
130591
URI
Publication date:
18.6.2013.
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