Razlika između Bosanaca i Hercegovaca, Bošnjaka i muslimana
The Difference among Bosnians and Herzegovinians, Bosniaks and Muslims

Summary/Abstract: The B-H Constitution contains legal norms regarding Bosnians and Herzegovinians, Bosniaks and Muslims. These legal norms are of different legal nature. The norms regarding Bosniaks do not belong to the hierarchy of legal acts and norms, rather standing as the constitutional category solely. Two other sorts of legal norms are belonging to the constitutional and administrative law. One needs to distinguish Bosnians and Herzegovinians as a special group from Bosnians and Herzegovinians as the legal entity. The current constitutional order of Bosnia and Herzegovina is not compatible with the law of European Union. That complicates smooth taking the census of population, households and dwellings in 2013 based on the relevant Law adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly in 2012. That conceptual disagreement leads to the contradictory data collecting and recording, which calls into question the authenticity of the administrative material acts whose reporting to the census-takers is required by law. Therefore it is necessary to adopt Amendments to the Law on Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2013.

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