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issues related to responsible State behaviour in cyberspace. Australia will continue to
take tangible steps to support the active and effective participation of women in
multilateral discussions related to international security and disarmament.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
[Original: English]
[11 May 2020]
Information on efforts taken at the national level in Bosnia and Herzegovina to
strengthen information security and promote international cooperation in
this field
This report is made based on the data collected from the following institutions
in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ministry
of Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ministry of Transport and Communications
of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Federal Police Administration, Ministry of Interior of
Republika Srpska and Ministry for Scientific and Technological Development, Higher
Education and Information Society of Republika Srpska. The relevant institutions that
had not delivered the data to the Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina
before the report was sent are: the Brčko District Police and the Federal Minist ry of
Transport and Communications.
Bosnia and Herzegovina has signed international agreements and conventions
relevant to information and cybersecurity. The most prominent ones are the
Convention on Cybercrime and the Stabilisation and Association Agreem ent. The
Convention was opened for signature on 23 November 2001 in Budapest, while the
Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina reached the decision on ratifying the document
at its eighty-ninth session, held on 25 March 2006. Thereby, Bosnia and Herzegovina
was obliged to adopt legislation and other necessary measures for combating
cybercrime in order to harmonize them with other signatories of the Convention in
terms of felony treatment, data acquisition, processing and storage.
The following legislation is relevant in Bosnia and Herzegovina when it comes
to the topics covered by the Convention:
• Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Official Gazette of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, 3/03
• Criminal Procedure Code, Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 3/03,
32/03, 36/03, 26/04,63/04, 13/05, 48/05, 46/06, 76/06, 29/07, 32/07, 53/07,
76/07, 15/08, 58/08, 12/09, 16/09, 93/09 and 72/13
• Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Official Gazette
of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 36/03, 21/04, 69/04, 18/05, 42/10,
42/11, 59/14, 76/14, 46/16 and 75/17
• Criminal Procedure Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Official
Gazette of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 35/03, 37/03, 56/03,
78/04, 28/05, 55/06, 27/07, 53/07, 09/09, 12/10, 08/13 and 59/14
• Criminal Code of Republika Srpska, Official Gazette of Republika Srpska,
64/17 and 104/18
• Criminal Procedure Code of Republika Srpska, Official Gazette of Republika
Srpska, 53/12, 91/17 and 66/18
• Criminal Code of Brčko District, Official Gazette of Brčko District, 33/13,
26/16, 13/17 and 50/18
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