Federal parliament backs radio and TV draft bill.
The federal lower house called on Bosnia-Hercegovina's parliament to take part in efforts aimed at settling the problem by adopting a new law which may regulate the status of the current RTVBiH as a public corporation which should be set up at the state level. According to the same source, the reason for that lies in the fact that the OHR has its own supervisor, Dragan Gasic, who is in charge of supervising the reconstruction of the SRT that leaves both space and time for resolving the SRT problems. However, in our source's opinion, Gasic cannot do much, since he is surrounded by editorial and journalistic staff who mostly favour the hard-liners and their political options, and he is also constantly exposed to threats. Monitoring is being carried out currently, but, as the OHR officials say, in order to have any concrete action undertaken in the SRT case, the high representative, and not the IMC, has to take a political decision first. In other words, the OHR is in charge of SRT's reconstruction, and the IMC's role is to do the monitoring and issue licences, the OHR people say.