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Editor's Word

Ermin Kuka — 2023-12-31

Dear academic and professional community, dear readers,

We have the honor and pleasure to present you the new, second in 2023, issue of the journal “Administration“, a scientific journal of administration and administrative law. The journal “Administration“ in continues since 2010, publishing scientific and professional papers and analysis from various domains of government and administrative law. In the issue, wich in front of you, the following papers have been published: PERSONAL HEALTH DATA AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ITS ADMINISTRATIVE PROTECTION (Emir Mehmedović, Amila Mehmedović); FINANCIAL INTEGRATION AND STRUCTURE IN EUROPE: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AND SLOVENIA (Abdul Wahab Aidoo, Avdibašić Ajla, Ognjen Riđić); SPECIFICITY OF NON-TAX REVENUES OF THE STATE WITH REFERENCE TO BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (Merdža Handalić Plahonjić, Ensar Bugari, Amar Kozadra); ADMINISTRATIVE DISPUTE WITHIN THE FULL JURISDICTION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - THE NEED AND SIGNIFICANCE (Emir Kadrić); SARAJEVO – POTENTIAL AND LIMITATIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY AND REGION (Merdža Handalić Plahonjić, Fatima Kuka); THE SITUATION AND PERSPECTIVES OF LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (Selma Alić); MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION OF THE US ARMED FORCES (NATO MEMBER) AND THE BiH ARMED FORCES (Rusmir Musa); THE ROLE OF STATE AND OTHER BODIES IN FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES (Bećir Mustafić); THE REFORM PROCESS OF INTRODUCING THE LICENSING OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS (Lejla Tuzlak, Ivona Ražnatović).
Topics represent an important segment in the understanding, knowledge and insights that are of scientific and wider social importance. The thematic units covered by this issue of the journal are a combination of different approaches to public administration and all other aspects that are more or less related to administration.

In the period after the publication of the journal number 1/2023, Editorial Board is to increase the visibility of the journal “Administration“ in the new international databases.

In addition to thanking the Editorial Board for these successes, we would like to express our special gratitude to all the authors and contributors who have give and will continue to make a great contribution to increasing the visibility of the journal. In the meantime, the journal has been indexed in the International Innovative Journal Impact Factor – IIJIF.

We thank, once again, our authors, readers, editorial staff, governing bodies of the Faculty of Administration and the University of Sarajevo, representatives of scientific bases in which the journal is indexed and all those who have contributed to the development of the journal in recent years.

On behalf of the Editors of the Journal, the best regards and recommendations for this issue.

Ermin Kuka, PhD
Editor in Chief

Personal Health Data and the Significance of Its Administrative Protection

Emir Mehmedović — 2023-12-31

The issue of personal data protection has been one of the focal points of attention in recent decades. This is because the protection of personal data is a form of realizing the right to privacy as a fundamental human right. Personal data refers to information about a specific individual’s characteristics that serves as a means of their identification. Personal data protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina is regulated by the Law on Personal Data Protection. This law governs the principles of personal data processing, the obligations of data controllers and processors, the rights of data subjects, as well as sanctions for violations of the law. Since 2016, the protection of personal data in the European Union has been regulated by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which has significantly improved the system for protecting personal data. A particularly significant category of personal data is personal health data, which includes identification and identifying information about an individual’s health and medical condition, their medical diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, as well as information about substances that can identify that individual. Data related to an individual’s health is a crucial and potentially vulnerable aspect of their life. These are the most intimate data about an individual, the unauthorized and unjustified disclosure of which can subject them to shame, ridicule, and stigmatization, causing them significant, primarily non-material, harm. Misuse of patient information not only violates their privacy but also undermines their dignity. Therefore, personal health data can only be processed for health-related purposes, i.e., for the benefit of the individual and society as a whole. Laws regulating patients’ rights in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Law on Healthcare and the Law on the Rights, Obligations, and Responsibilities of Patients) guarantee patients the right to confidentiality of information and privacy, the right to data secrecy, and the right to access their medical records. The provisions of these laws significantly meet the standards for the protection of personal health data. However, in order to improve the situation in this area, there is a need to harmonize the provisions of the general data protection law, which is subsidiarily applied in the protection of personal health data, with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation.

Financial Integration and Structure in Europe: A Comparative Case Study of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia

Abdul Wahab Aidoo — 2023-12-31

The study measures and compares the levels of financial integration in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia between 2000 and 2020. This study aims to determine the impact of industrial index, gross domestic product per capita, trade openness, and corporate tax rate on the level of international financial integration. The statistical methods employed are unit root tests, OLS regression, the Breusch-Pagan test, and the heteroskedasticity test. For the 20-year time span and annual data for each parameter, the results have shown a significant positive correlation between gross domestic product per capita and financial integration for both countries. The results for Slovenia indicate that financial integration is negatively affected by trade openness and corporate tax rates, whereas gross domestic product per capita and industrial production index affect positively. In the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, corporate tax rate and industrial production index affect financial integration negatively, while trade openness affect positively but insignificant with financial integration.

Specificity of Non-tax Revenues of the State With Reference to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Merdža Handalić Plahonjić — 2023-12-31

The aim of the paper entitled „Specifics of Non-tax Revenues of the State with a Focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina“ is an analysis of non-tax (non-fiscal, parafiscal) revenues with a focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as those are generated by BiH institutions and their multy-year comparation. As part of this paper secondary data related to the theoretical settings, emporical data from the budget’s dokuments and legislation relevant to this topic as well are analyzed.

The main goal of the research is to point out the specifics of parafiscal charges, which very often in the most significant forms are not correlated with the basic theoretical characteristics of non-tax revenues but could be an additional burden for economic entities.

The research questions related to the conceptual determination of non-tax revenues, from which sources they are collectedand what their purpose is, what is the difference between tax and non-tax revenues, and what non-tax revenues occur in theory and which in practice with a special attention on the forms exi st in BiH.

Administrative Dispute Within the Full Jurisdiction in Bosnia and Herzegovina - The Need and Significance

Emir Kadrić — 2023-12-31

Administrative and judicial oversight of the administration is one of the most important mechanisms for the protection of rights and interests of citizens and legal entities who believe that their rights have been violated by decisions and other actions of state administration bodies and other bodies and legal entities with public authority.The most important task of administrative courts is to resolve administrative disputes and decide on the rights and obligations of citizens and legal entities. The complexity of the state organization of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and thus the organization of the judiciary, makes the resolution of administrative disputes particularly complex. In this regard, the subject of this research will be the analysis of the theoretical framework related to the dispute of full jurisdiction, as well as the analysis of the applicable legal frameworks in Bosnia and Herzegovina for resolving administrative disputes in the dispute of full jurisdiction. The results of this research answer the question of whether resolving a case in a full jurisdiction administrative dispute is more effective than a legality dispute, and whether in existing laws a full jurisdiction dispute should be given priority in resolving administrative disputes.

Sarajevo – Potential and Limitations in the Development of the City and Region

Merdža Handalić Plahonjić — 2023-12-31

Observing through the historical prism of regional development and regionalization in Bosnia and Herzegovina, city and region of Sarajevo have special importance and significance. This is mainly due to the fact that the City of Sarajevo is the main administrative center, i.e. the center of political, economic, cultural and overall social life and development in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the same time, the Sarajevo is the center of Canton of Sarajevo, the center of this macro-region, as well as it is the capital of the entity of the Federation and state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. All those facts make Sarajevo attractive both for life and business, furthermore for studying its capacity and development potentials as well.

In modern economics, the regions represent an important development level, while regionalisation represent an essentional component of the political systems of the modern state. The regions have become a link between local and central (state) institutions of government and local and overall economic development of country. The Bosnia and Herzegovina has a long tradition of regionalization and regionalism. Over long time, it has gone through verious phases and forms of regionalisation depening on then chraging political order. Sarajevo as a city and the region has historicaly developed in two directions. First, towards the capital of state of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the main administrative center. Secondly, towards the center of the region, i.e. the macro-region. Sarajevo macro-region is the most developed region in Bosnia and Herzegovina in terms of overall infrastructure and resources bacause of its normative, social importance and the position of the city itself. The territory covered by the Sarajevo macro-region has significant natural resources, energy potentials, as well as resources for the development of industry. Truistically, along with Mostar, it is a most impressive destination for tourists. Nevertheless, this macroregion still does not fully exploit the resources available to it, due to the many limitations and obsticles that directly affect it and that require adequate resolution.

The Situation and Perspectives of Local Economic Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Selma Alić — 2023-12-31

Local economic development is the process through which local authorities, together with public organizations, non-governmental sector and enterprises, develop a better business environment. Modern policies of local economic development are taking on an increasingly equal role with the private sector, facilitating its development and management of business. Such policies are often developed in the form of partnerships between the public and private sectors, which aim to support private investment for the benefit of the entire social community.

Local economic development has been a part of the development policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the last ten years. The strategic approach has enabled local communities to enter the reform processes and to adapt their capacities to the demands of the global market from the beginning.

With the advent of new theoretical approaches, the foundations of the theoretical basis of local economic development were laid. The active role of the local community and the planning of economic development from the local level has enabled a different perspective and approach to the basic strategic directions of development of national economies in developed countries.

Management and Organization of the US Armed Forces (NATO Member) and the BiH Armed Forces

Rusmir Musa — 2023-12-31

The foundations of the organization and functioning of the modern armed forces, especially in the light of the emerging global security paradigm, have been the subject of many scientific papers in the past period. The same applies primarily to highlighting global security challenges and general assumptions related to organization, management and command and control in the system of armed forces of members of the NATO alliance with an emphasis on the US Armed Forces as the representative and most important member of the organization in question. In addition to the above, it is necessary to descriptively present possible challenges and experiences related to the present limitations in the management system of the modern armed forces, as well as perspectives, i.e. the further direction of development and the specific role of state administration bodies in a very important state and social segment.

The basis of the complete elaboration within the subject scientific work is on the general characteristics of the position and functioning of the armed forces in modern democratic systems and the established organizational and management mechanisms of Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina as the only legal armed force in Bosnia and Herzegovina whose full legality and legitimacy is established within the framework of the Dayton Peace Agreement, more specifically in Article IV (Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina).

The Role of State and Other Bodies in Financial Investigations of Criminal Offenses

Bećir Mustafić — 2023-12-31

Financial investigations are conducted with the aim of determining and uncovering corrupt criminal acts, as well as securing and confiscating the proceeds of the criminal act. In this way, state institutions with their entities and bodies represent an effective instrument in the fight against property-motivated crimes. For this reason, an attack on property, which was achieved in an illegal way, is considered the heaviest blow for perpetrators of serious crimes, and tools aimed at confiscating property benefits are assessed as the best way to combat organized crime. Illegally acquired property benefits from various criminal acts are, in most cases, concealed. Conducting financial investigations by competent authorities should meet certain requirements. Professional relationship and highly professional work are the key features of financial investigations. In this regard, the prosecutor is the leading person and coordinator, who has the most extensive task in terms of managing the financial investigation. The prosecutor engages numerous state authorities and financial experts in order to collect relevant data and information, and in the function of documenting illegally acquired property benefits. In this context, it is necessary to elaborate on the role and importance of criminal process subjects and state authorities in the procedures of conducting financial investigations in the case of confiscation of illegally acquired property benefits.

The Reform Process of Introducing the Licensing of Primary and Secondary School Principals

Lejla Tuzlak — 2023-12-31

To improve the quality of pre-university education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is necessary to start a reform process aimed at increasing the competence of school principals. In accordance with the practice implemented in most countries of the region and many countries of the European Union, it is necessary to introduce the licensing of principals of primary and secondary schools. The paper provides a brief overview of the names of the modules in the training programs and the duration of the training after which school principals are licensed in the countries of the region, as well as the activities carried out in Bosnia and Herzegovina that preceded the introduction of principal licensing in the field of primary and secondary education. It is stated in the paper that the current regulatory changes should enable the licensing of principals of primary and secondary schools. Recommendations were given for adopting the occupational standards of school principals, as well as all the other steps that need to be taken. By implementing the process of licensing for school principals, the state would receive a significant resource of highly educated staff who have acquired competencies through an interdisciplinary training program for the management of primary and secondary schools.