SARAJEVO, June 18 (Hina) - The House of Peoples of Bosnia-Herzegovina's Parliament on Thursday adopted a law regulating the protection of domestic agricultural produce within the CEFTA agreement stipulating the re-introduction of full
tariffs on imported agricultural products from neighbouring Croatia and Serbia.
SARAJEVO, June 18 (Hina) - The House of Peoples of
Bosnia-Herzegovina's Parliament on Thursday adopted a law regulating the
protection of domestic agricultural produce within the CEFTA agreement
stipulating the re-introduction of full tariffs on imported agricultural
products from neighbouring Croatia and Serbia. The law was passed by
majority vote, and only Croat deputies opposed it.
The new legislation refers to higher tariff rates on imported dairy
products, meat products, fruit, vegetables, drinks and alcohol and some other
products which are imported free of tariffs from neighbouring countries.
Croat Ilija Filipovic, the upper house's speaker, said he would veto
the law and insisted on launching a procedure to establish if the law was in
line with the country's constitution.
Filipovic did not rule out the possibility of the international
community's High Representative Valentin Inzko rescinding the law.