furthermore there is no system or institutional structure currently capable of taking responsibility for the collection processing integration and further maintenance of biodiversity data in a systematic way or at least of providing information on where data can be found the statistical services in both entities and the statelevel agency do not collect this information either this is despite the fact that there are relevant legal requirements to develop rdbs in both entities articles of the fbih law on the protection of nature and articles and of the rs law on the protection of nature there is no consistency between this information and data at the national level for example on endemic species see table