Bosnia’s High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) appointed Ranko Debevec on Tuesday as President of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

The HJPC President Halil Lagumdzija previously said that Debevec had passed all the procedures and that the Sub-council proposed his appointment as President, thus giving him another mandate.

Debevec, as the only candidate for that position, presented his work program and plans for the new term at the HJPC Tuesday session.

He emphasized that he will work on improving the country’s justice sector. Primarily, to improve the quality and efficiency, efficacy and responsibility of the work of the Court, but also to improve the institutional development of the Court.

“The court will engage in as many activities as possible related to the strengthening of the rule of law, the fight against corruption and organized crime,” Debevec said.

Ranko Debevec was born in 1964 in Sarajevo, where he graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Sarajevo in 1988. From 2005 to 2008, he served as the prosecutor of the Cantonal Prosecutor's Office in Sarajevo. He was appointed prosecutor of the BiH Prosecutor's Office on April 10, 2008, and in the period from 2010 to 2012, he was a member of the Project Team of the Council of Europe’s IPA project for the fight against cybercrime. He was appointed as a judge of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on December 12, 2012.