Authorities in three municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina have requested that the status of their border crossings to Croatia be changed, chairman of the state commission for integrated border management Miro Dzakula confirmed on Tuesday.
We've received requests to change the category of border crossings in Capljina (southern Bosnia) Kozarska (Bosanska) Dubica in the north and Novi Grad (Bosanski Novi) to the west, Dzakula said, as carried by Tuesday's edition of the Nezavisne Novine daily.
Dzakula, who is at the same time the director of the Indirect Tax Administration in that country, thinks that the requests are not excessive considering that the border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina stretches over more than one thousand kilometres.
The border commission will discuss the requests and should make a recommendation by the week's end.
The country's presidency last week adopted a decision to commence proceedings to amend an agreement on border crossings to Croatia based on the requests that are being submitted by municipalities in border regions.
Dzakula believes that neither Croatia nor the European Union will object to the new categorisation of some border crossings once agreement has been reached in Bosnia.
