The preparation of answers to the European Commission’s follow-up questions is undergoing the same procedure as answers from the Questionnaire, submitted by Bosnia in February 2018. The answers will be provided by all the competent institutions in Bosnia, said Marina Kavaz-Sirucic, spokesperson of the Directorate for European Integration.

“Heads and deputies of working groups from the coordination system are analysing the answers and preparing working versions of Bosnia’s answers to the follow-up questions, on which each respective working group will take a vote,” said Kavaz-Sirucic.

After the working groups do their part, the answers will be verified, translated, the translation will be verified and then the Council of Ministers will send its approval. In the end, the answers will be submitted to the European Commission.

Kavaz-Sirco notes that the European Commission said the follow-up answers should be submitted by the end of September or early October.

“However, the question is whether such dynamics will be maintained or realised. No one can give an answer to that question,” she stressed.

On July 20, the European Commission submitted follow-up questions to Bosnian institutions to clarify the ambiguities from the Questionnaire that the country answered in February this year.

Bosnia's Directorate for European Integration said that the follow-up questions compose 20 percent of the original Questionnaire. Most follow-up questions,106 of them, refer to the political criteria in the country. A total of 33 questions refer to the economic criteria. The Employment and Social policy received 43 follow-up questions, the Transport policy received 39 questions and the field of Education and Culture received 36 follow-up questions.