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PERMITTIG- PURPOSE, SIGNIFICANCE AND STREAMLINING -
Neum, April 26, 2018.
What is the purpose of issuing permits?
PURPOSE OF ISSUING PERMITS
• All countries have an interest to protect their environment, population, landscape...
• Construction of buildings can have a negative effect on these interests
• By issuing permits countries protect the interests of the whole community
ALL COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD ISSUE PERMITS, THE MAIN DIFFERENCE IS EFFICIENCY!
DOING BUSINESS 2018 –WORLD BANK REPORT
• The World Bank uses the efficiency of issuing permits as a metric for assessing the overall ease of doing business in a given country
• The Report analyzed the process of issuing construction permits for a warehouse in a total of 190 countries
• 3 permits, 16 steps, 193 days
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
166th Place out of 190 countries
166
126
106
100
78
26
10
Bosnia andHerzegovina
Croatia
Albania
Slovenia
Crna Gora
Macedonia
Serbia
Ranking out of 190 countries in the world
Ease of obtaining permits
Energy facilities?
WORK METHODOLOGY
• Under the auspicies of entity ministries of energy, more than 10 working subgroups have been formed
• Technicall assistance provide by USAID EIA i GIZ ProRE
• More than 100 representatives of competent instutionsfrom both entities were included in the process
• Analyzed areas:
CONCESSIONS AND PUBLIC INTEREST
SPATIAL PLANNING CONSTRUCTIONWATER
MANAGEMENT
ECOLOGY/ ENVIRONMENT
FEED-IN TARIFF SYSTEM
ACQUISITION OF LAND
ENERGY SECTOR PERMITS
RESULTS
• Report on the Existing Permitting Regime
• Baseline Report – harmonisation, transparency and efficiency
• Report on the InternationaI Best Practice for Permitting
• Case Studies for the construction of energy facilities in practice
• Detailed Legal Analyses of all sectors
• Individual and Institutional Capacity Needs Assessment Report
• Guidelines for Investors
ENERGY FACILITIES PERMITTIG IN BIH
• More than 20 permits
• More than 100 steps (opinions, approvals, various administrative decisions and supporting documents)
• Up to 2 years of legal deadlines
In practice the process can last for more than 5 years!
How to improve?
RECOMMENDATIONS
Recommendation Level
Example
Strategic(43)
Adopting strategies, Spatial Plans, Action Plans
Legislative(68)
Eliminating permits, harmonizing laws
Regulatory(25)
Adopting a rulebook, harmonizing a rulebook with a law
Training and education of employees, optimisation of
procedures
Guidelines for investors
• More than 100 recommendations for both entities
Improving Legislative Framework
Institutions and Investors Capacity
Building
KEY RECOMMENDATIONS
• Adopt the missing spatial planning documents
• Improve and harmonize legislative framework
• Ensure efficiency in resolving legal-property issues
• Reduce the number of fees and their ammounts
• Improve institutional and individual capacity and cooperation of all stakeholders
• Increase competent authorities‘ transparency
• Explain the permitting procedure in the guidelines for investors
• Establish e-permitting system
• Establish one-stop-shop sistem
Effects of recommendations in
practice?
IMPORTANCE OF IMPLEMENTING RECOMMENDATIONS
• BiH needs new investments
• It is necessary to improve BiH ranking in issuing permits (166th place)
• Implementing these recommendations will create new revenues, new jobs and ensure BiH energy security
• Meeting national and EU targets
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!