20
56
In fact, Paddy Ashdown now refers to him in this way, see International Crisis Group, ‘Thessaloniki
and after II: The EU and Bosnia’, Balkans Briefing, Sarajevo/Brussels, 20 June 2003; see also,
European Commission, ‘Report from the Commission to the Council’ (see n.51 above) §B.1.1.3.
57
European Commission, ‘Report from the Commission to the Council’ (see n.51 above) §B.1.1.5.
58
Ibid.
59
The exception is the Defence Reform Commission, see European Commission, ‘Commission Staff
Working Paper’ (see n.54 above) §2.2.
60
See Commission for Reforming the City of Mostar, ‘Recommendations of the Commission Report of
the
Chairman’,
15
Dec
2003.
Available
at:
http://www.ohr.int/archive/report-
mostar/pdf/Reforming%20Mostar-Report%20(EN).pdf
; ‘Decision Enacting the Statute of the City of
Mostar’,
Office
of
the
High
Representative,
28
Jan
2004.
Available
at:
http://www.ohr.int/decisions/mo-hncantdec/default.asp?content_id=31707
.
61
Valery Perry, ‘Quotas, Bridges, and Guarantees: The Politics and Process of Reforming Mostar’,
paper presented at the Institute for Strengthening Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Seventh
International Seminar, Democracy and Human Rights in Multiethnic Societies, Konjic, Bosnia, 12-17
July 2004.
62
European Commission, ‘Report from the Commission to the Council’ (see n.51 above) §B.3.1.
63
European Commission, ‘Council Decision on the principles, priorities and conditions contained in
the European Partnership with Bosnia and Herzegovina’, COM(2004) yyy final, Brussels, no date.
Available at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/see/sap/rep3/part_bih.pdf
.
64
See n.65 above. These restrictive economic policies are sensitive as they would mean declining
social protection in a state where half the population are already according to the EU ‘at or near the
poverty line’, see European Commission, ‘Report from the Commission to the Council’ (see n.51
above), §C.
65
European Commission, ‘Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European
Parliament: The Western Balkans and European Integration, COM(2003) 285 final, Brussels, 21 May
2003, §2. Available at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/see/2003.pdf
.
66
Ibid.
67
For further information on the SAP process in the region see David Chandler, ‘Governance: The
Unequal Partnership’, in Meurs (ed.) (see n.44 above), pp.79-98.
68
European Commission, ‘Report from the Commission to the Council’ (see n.51 above), §B.3.7.1.
69
European Commission, ‘Communication from the Commission to the Council’ (see n.65 above) §2.
70
European Commission, ‘Commission Staff Working Paper’ (see n.54 above) §2.2.
71
‘Mission
Statement’,
European
Union
Police
Mission.
Available
at:
http://www.eupm.org/mission/ms.htm
.
72
‘Council Joint Action of 11 March 2002 on the European Police Mission’ (2002/210/CFSP), Official
Journal
of
the
European
Communities,
Council
of
Europe,
§3.
Available
at:
http://www.eupm.org/mission/bt/council1.pdf
.
73
Ibid., §7.
74
Further information on the EU Special Representative is available at:
http://www.eusrbih.org/
.
75
Interview with the author, Vienna, 5 July 2002.
76
‘OHR General Information’ The weekly meeting are attended by: OHR, SFOR, OSCE, EUPM,
UNHCR, European Commission, the World Bank, the IMF and the UNDP.
77
European Commission, ‘Commission Staff Working Paper’ (see n.51 above) §5. Its budget in 2004
was 21.1 million. Contributions to the OHR budget broke down as follows: EU 53 per cent, USA 22
per cent, Japan 10 per cent, Russia 4 per cent, Canada 3 per cent, Organisation of the Islamic
Conference 2.5 per cent, others 5.5 per cent (see ‘OHR General Information’, n.9 above).
78
European Commission, ‘Commission Staff Working Paper’ (see n.51 above) §2.3.
Convention