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This work tries to explain the legal framework of the municipal building land in domestic law. Before the passing of the new entity building land laws in 2003, municipal building land in our country could exclusively be state or public property, without the possibility to become or to revert to private property. Aforementioned entity building land laws have partially transformed the right of use of building land into the right of ownership, while in the entity of Republika Srpska the new Building Land Act in 2006 made a step further in this direction by allowing restitution of the nationalized building land to previous owners, abolishing right of use and specifying procedure for the entry of ownership right in land registers after transformation. The basic intention of the transitional provisions of Property Rights Act of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity and Property Rights Act of Republika Srpska entity is to create a transitional civil law regime for the period of transformation from socialist legal system into modern European continental civil law system. Both of the property rights acts contain different transitional provisions regarding the building land, depending on that if it is land built on or land not built on. At the end of this work author has given commentary on the draft of new Building Land Act of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The legislation in force in Bosnia and Herzegovina on employees in state bodies does not include regulations on civil servants. Civil servant is a general term that includes state servants and state employees, as well as employees in public services. The legal status of civil servants can be considered by the analysis of laws and bylaws that regulate this area. The European standards of civil service law are developed within the European Council and the European Union. Since the European institutions had designated administrative reform as one of the membership criteria, the European standards of civil service law became part of a wider corpus of standards and rules whose purpose is to strenghten administrative capacities of the potential members of the European Union, as well as to modernize and improve quality and efficacy of public administration. These standards have been adopted in national legislations of the European Union member states, together with the principles of European administrative space, and also in the practice of the European institutions, so that they represent criteria for the evaluation of the institutional capacity of public administrations in European Union membership candidate states. The legal principles adopted in the civil service laws in Bosnia and Herzegovine are adjusted with the principles of the European administrative space and relate to: professionalism, imapartiality, responsibility, honesty, transparency, efficacy and economy. However, though these conditions are formally met, problems arise in the process of application of laws. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]