The delegates of the House of Peoples of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly adopted the Law on Public Procurement, on Monday.

The Annual Audit Report on the main findings and recommendations for 2020 was also adopted.

The reports of the Audit Office of BiH Institutions on the financial audit of 74 state institutions for 2020 and 2021 were also accepted, as well as a series of reports on the audit of performance on several topics, including the Report on the work of the Commission for deciding on conflicts of interest for the year 2021 and the Report on the work of the BiH Appeals Office for the year 2021, while the Report on the implementation of laws under the jurisdiction of the Central Election Commission in 2021 did not receive the support of the House of Peoples.

The Annual Report on the Results of the Activities of the Ombudsman Institution for Human Rights of BiH for the year 2021 was also adopted.

The Adoption of the Public Procurement Law was also welcomed by the Head of the EU Delegation to BiH Johann Sattler who said it was an important and long overdue step today towards implementing the 12 June Agreement and fulfilling EU's Opinion Priorities and an EU candidacy condition.

🇧🇦 took an important & long overdue step today towards implementing the 12 June Agreement, fulfilling 🇪🇺 Opinion Priorities & EU candidacy.

The Public Procurement Law, adopted in HoP, is 1 of 4 key pieces of rule of law legislation. The 3 others need to be adopted ASAP.

— Johann Sattler (@josattler) August 29, 2022