Financial Risk:
Low
Score:
82/100
Asset Disposals
Q24
75/100
How effective are controls over the disposal of assets, and is information on these disposals, and the proceeds of their sale, transparent?
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The disposal of assets is regulated by the Rulebook on Financial and Material Management in the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces of Bosnia…
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The disposal of assets is made only following the approval of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The information is made public [1, 2,…
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The public calls for offers to buy assets that are being sold state that the record of the opening of offers and the decision…
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Q25
67/100
Is independent and transparent scrutiny of asset disposals conducted by defence establishments, and are the reports of such scrutiny publicly available?
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A Strategic Committee for Weapons, Ammunition, Mines and Explosives is a body established for the primary purpose of dealing with surplus weapons, ammunition and…
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Upon the suggestion of the MoD and with the approval of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the MoD sells surplus assets, weapons, ammunition,…
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Reports on the process are presented at sessions of the Strategic Committee for Weapons, Ammunition, Mines and Explosives [1]. Information regarding this is publicly…
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Secret Budgets
Q26
100/100
What percentage of defence and security expenditure in the budget year is dedicated to spending on secret items relating to national security and the intelligence services?
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The budgets of the defence and security sector (including Intelligence and Security Agency of BiH) on the state level are publicly available. The budget…
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Q27
75/100
Is the legislature (or the appropriate legislative committee or members of the legislature) given full information for the budget year on the spending of all secret items relating to national security and military intelligence?
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The Ministry of Defence Ministry of Defence does not have military intelligence in its composition, the Intelligence-Security Agency runs at state level rather than…
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Q28
50/100
Are audit reports of the annual accounts of the security sector (the military and intelligence services) subject to parliamentary debate?
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The Ministry of Finance and Treasury prepares the quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports on the Execution of the Budget of the Institutions of Bosnia…
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Before being voted on in both houses of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, the audit report for the Ministry of Defence is discussed and…
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Q29
100/100
In law, are off-budget military expenditures permitted, and if so, are they exceptional occurrences that are well-controlled? In practice, are there any off-budget military expenditures? If so, does evidence suggest this involves illicit economic activity?
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The Ministry of Defence (MoD) cannot create any expenses that are not in line with budgetary and financial norms and procedures [1]. Thus, there…
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There are no off-budget expenditures and, therefore, this indicator is marked Not Applicable. All expenditures from the MoD, regardless of the source, are an…
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There are no off-budget military expenditures [1, 2].
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Q30
50/100
Are mechanisms for accessing information from the defence sector effective?
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There is legislation and implementing guidelines regulating access to information, also applicable to work of the Ministry of Defence [1]. There is the Guide…
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This indicator is not assigned a score in the GDI. There is a Law on the Protection of Classified Information clearly defining a legal…
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Access to information related to the defence sector sometimes can be difficult to achieve because laws on free access to information (all three laws…
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Q31
100/100
Do national defence and security institutions have beneficial ownership of commercial businesses? If so, how transparent are details of the operations and finances of such businesses?
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Following the Law on Defence and the Law on Ministries and Other Administration Bodies of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and…
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This indicator has been marked Not Applicable. National defence and security institutions do not have beneficial ownership of commercial business [1, 2, 3, 4,…
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Military-owned Businesses
Q32
100/100
Are military-owned businesses subject to transparent independent scrutiny at a recognised international standard?
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Q33
100/100
Is there evidence of unauthorised private enterprise by military or other defence ministry employees? If so, what is the government’s reaction to such enterprise?
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In Bosnia and Herzegovina, there are law and by-laws that regulate private enterprise. Businesses the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and BiH Armed Forces (AFBiH)…
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A search across the media, together with other documentary sources, did not provide any evidence of unauthorised private enterprise by military or other defence…
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Actual Military Spending
Q77
88/100
Is comprehensive data on actual spending on defence published during the budget year?
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The Ministry of Finance and Treasury of Bosnia and Herzegovina publishes yearly and periodical (3-month, 6-month and 9-month) reports on the execution of the…
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The spending of the MoD is represented in a table based on the budget, so that spending of every heading in the budget can…
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According to the legislation, the periodical reports have to be published at the latest 60 days after the report period, with the yearly report…
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The periodical and annual reports show variances between the budget and the actual spending, and the general explanations can be found in the report…
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