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The High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, HJPC, of BiH, announced that those resources would be used, together with resources from the project “Improving Efficiency of Judiciary”, for preparation of project documents and repairing damage caused to several judicial institutions.
“The resources will also be used for purchasing equipment and furniture for a number of judicial institutions, which have suffered damage due to the floods,” the HJPC announced.
A part of these resources will be allocated to the District Court in Doboj, which suffered big damage caused by the floods. Right after the floods Dusko Ninkovic, President of that Court, told BIRN-Justice Report that many archives, as well as numerous pieces of evidence, were destroyed in the floods.
The floods, which struck Bosnia and Herzegovina in May this year, caused damage to judicial institutions in Prijedor, Bijeljina, Kakanj, Sanski Most and Gradacac. Some of those institutions did not hold trials for a certain period of time due to the damage caused to their buildings.
As indicated in the announcement, the resources for repairing the damage have been secured following several meetings between the HJPC and representatives of international donors.
The HJPC says that, according to estimates, the damages to judicial institution buildings are more than two million KM.
“Besides the financial resources from international donors, the damage caused to judicial institutions by the floods will be repaired using approved multi-year capital investments of the HJPC’s annual budget. These resources will be used for purchasing equipment,” the HJPC explains.
