Establishment and status

The House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH, at its 69th session, held on 30 December 2009, and at its 40th session of the House of Peoples, held on the same day, adopted the Law on the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption and Coordination of the Fight against Corruption ("Official Gazette of BiH", No. 103/09).

The Law was adopted with the aim of preventing the impact of corruption on the development of democracy and respect for fundamental human rights and freedoms, as well as the impact on undermining the economic and commercial development of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and all other forms of impact on social values, as well as for the coordination of the fight against corruption.

According to the Law, the Agency is an independent and autonomous administrative organization, which is accountable for its work to the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In accordance with Article 6, paragraph 3 of the Law on the Agency for Prevention of Corruption and Coordination of the Fight against Corruption, the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at its 116th session, held on March 9, 2010, adopted a Decision (No. 43/10) establishing that the seat of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption and Coordination of the Fight against Corruption shall be in East Sarajevo.

The Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at its 5th session of the House of Representatives, held on July 14, 2011, and at its 4th session of the House of Peoples, held on July 28, 2011, appointed Sead Lisak as Director of the Agency for Prevention of Corruption and Coordination of the Fight against Corruption, and Dragan Slipac and Sreto Pekić as Deputy Directors of this Agency.

The Decision was published in the “Official Gazette of BiH” (62/11) on August 2 of the same year, after which the Director and his deputies officially assumed the duties entrusted to them.