The parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the most expensive and at the same time the least effective legislative body of all countries in the region and for that parliament to adopt just one law, taxpayers have to set aside more than EUR 70,000, the Civil Initiative Centres (CCI) non-governmental organisation said on Monday in Sarajevo.
The NGO which monitors and regularly analyses the work of executive and legislative authorities at all government levels in that country presented an analysis to the press which notes that in the first six months of this year Bosnian MPs managed to adopt but twelve laws, which is not even one-fifth of the plan for 2013.
In comparison, the NGO said that in the first six months of the penultimate year of the previous parliament, 31 laws had been adopted.
If the parliament continues at this pace, before the year's end it will not have realised one-third of this year's legislative activity plan, CCI said.
Furthermore, one plenary session of parliament costs Bosnian citizens around EUR 58,800, a CCI analyst, Ivica Cavar, told the press conference.
The Council of Ministers in that country was no better, according to CCI.
Their analysis shows that in the first six months of this year, that body achieved but 13 percent of its planned activities.
These results are the worst of any Bosnian parliament or Council of Ministers in the past seven years, the NGO said.
