OPINION OF THE HELSINKI COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNING
THE LAW ON THE SALE OF APARTMENTS WITH TENANTS' RIGHTS

Following the initiative of a certain number of citizens, The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in BH has considered the text of the Law on Sale of Apartments with tenants' rights, especially, the article 47, paragraph 2 of the Law.

The provisions of this article are discriminatory since they do not equally treat certain catagories of holders of tenant's rights. Besides, such solution brings into question the realization of rights of the owners of apartments as well as the holders' of tenants rights.

In the opinion of the Helsinki Committee such proposals only postopone the solution of one of the greatest problems.

Having in mind numerous aspects of sale of apartments with tenants' rights, and stressing inalienable right to ownership and to right to dwell, we ask for protection of rights of holders of tenants' rights and that the state be obliged to adequately compensate the owners of housing units.

Sarajevo, 2 February 1998
No. 05A-02/98

Srđan Dizdarević
President