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Zenica). Enes Karic (BiH Prosecutor’s
Office), Ranka Vasiljevic (team leader
for protection in the Witness
Protection Department, SIPA), judge
Daniela Milovanovic (Banja Luka
DC), Hilmo Vucinic and Dragomir
Vukoje (BiH Court).
• On 19 and 20 September, a seminar
was held in Bihac on Offences
Related to Customs and Tax and the
New Taxation System – VAT. The
seminar included 28 participants. It
considered the role, organisation and
competences of the Indirect Taxation
Authority, procedures in the VAT
system, current situation in
implementation of VAT and number
and type of offences related to
customs and VAT, substantive and
procedural aspects of prosecution of
offences in this area, connections
between tax evasion and other forms
of fraud (customs fraud, forgery of
value labels, smuggling, forgery of
documents, illegal production) –
experiences of the Indirect Taxation
Authority in BiH. Presenters included
Mr. Saudin Terzic, Mr. Dinko
Corluka, Mr. Dejan Radic, Mr. Goran
Glamocanin, Ms. Vladana Markovic,
Mr. Enes Smajlovic, Mr. Elvir Sacic
(Indirect Taxation Authority), and
prosecutor Ismet Suskic.
• On 20 September, a seminar was held
in Sarajevo on the Family Law. The
new Family Law in BiH ( in force as
of September 2005) established key
novelties in regulating and
prosecuting cases in the field of
issues and complaints advisor to the
Director of the RS Taxation
Administration. Mr. Zlatko Kulenovic,
Judge of the RS Supreme Court, spoke
on Observance of Rules of Procedure
in Rulings in Administrative Matters.
It was stated by all the participants
that there is a constant need for this
type of joint training, as it contributes
to greater efficiency of taxation
authorities.
• On 15 September, the Centre hosted a
seminar on Current Issues in the
work of District Courts and
Prosecutors’ Offices for the Banja
Luka District’. The seminar was
organised as a two-segment
interactive workshop. The first part
included separate workshops for
judges and prosecutors. Judges
discussed ‘Confirmation of
Indictments and Acceptance of Guilty
Pleas’, introduced by Ms. Svetlana
Maric, judge of the Banja Luka District
Court. Following an introduction by
Mr. Vitomir Soldat, Chief District
Prosecutor for Banja Luka, the
participants discussed the issue of
‘Content of Indictments and
Amendments to Indictments at the
Main Hearing’. The second part was a
plenary, which presented conclusions
from the workshops, followed by a
debate between judges and
prosecutors.
• On 22 and 23 September, a seminar
was held in Banja Luka, in
collaboration with the CoE CARDS