The European Union’s mission in BiH hosted a seminar on the extended jurisdiction of the BiH-level judiciary, under the framework of the Structured Dialogue on Justice and the TAIEX program.
A team of four senior experts from EU member works with the relevant practitioners and representatives from the line ministries at all levels, discussing the issue of the state level judiciary extended criminal jurisdiction. The EU has selected relevant experts from member states (Germany, Belgium, Italy) of particular relevance for the distribution of criminal jurisdiction across various levels of authority and different instances. The team of experts includes: Mr Eric Bisschop, Deputy Chief Federal Prosecutor of Belgium, also Head of the Organized Crime Unit at the Federal Prosecutor’s Office and National contact point for anti-corruption; Mr Ferdinando Buatier De Mongeot, judge for preliminary investigations in Italy, who has also served as international judge in EULEX Kosovo, where he adjudicated war crimes and other serious crime; Mr Theo Jacobs, Director of the Central Office for Seizure and Confiscation of Belgium, previously Head of the Rule of Law section at the EU-mission in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, justice expert in the EU Planning team for Kosovo, as well as Chief EULEX Prosecutor; Mr Florian Schlosser, currently serving at the Office of the Prosecutor General in Munich as expert for Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, Extradition cases and as Contact Point for the European Judicial Network (EJN)/National Correspondent for Eurojust.
