"The ceremony of the transfer of powers will be held on 2 December," Tihic told reporters in Sarajevo on Monday after he held talks with a delegation of NATO and EU, led by Robert Serry and Peter Feith.
They arrived in Sarajevo as personal envoys of NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and the EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana.
Tihic said that Bosnian officials had received information that preparations were under way for the establishment of new international military forces in the country. EUFOR will consist of some 7,500 soldiers under the command of British General David Leaky, and the special NATO command in Sarajevo will engage between 150 and 200 people, mostly Americans.
SFOR troops have been in Bosnia since the signing of the Dayton peace agreement in January 1996.