Due to the inertian authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina at all levels, BiH citizens could come into a situation that they cannot use a new rapid road near Gradiška, which would be borne on the highway Zagreb – Belgrade, which BiH and the Republic of BiH Serbian on the one hand, and Croatia on the other, paid for almost a hundred million euros.
The road, ie its first part to the old town of Gradiška – Okučani, should be completed by the end of May, but the opening will not be if it is not ready a border crossing on the Croatian side, which is under construction.
The reminiscents, the project began evening in 2007. years, and then, mostly, they only insisted the Republika Srpska authorities because it is in the interest of its western part to better connect with Europe through this road. It is computed that the path from Banja Luka to Zagreb could last a little more than an hour and a half. Croatia, although she agreed to implement the project, was never enthusiastic about this, and had been postponing his realization several times, justifying this lack of funds and waiting for money from European funds. The project is only accelerated when one of the most important strategic traffic issues of Croatia has been resolved, a project that has been blocking Sarajevo for years, because they had a solution to Banja Luka, in turn expecting that Croatia would be more active engaged in Relationship with the bridge on the Sava and the fast road, which happened.
Now the problem is the contract between Croatia and BiH, which would define a new border crossing on the highway in the bridge on Sava near Gradiška. Even if Croatia build a border crossing by the end of May, which could be outlining, release in traffic will be possible only after signing the contract between the two countries.
In the Croatian Ministry, Croatia briefly explained to us that the transition will be released when a contract with BiH is signed, not specifying when it could happen. Some unofficial information also speak that Croatia would not want to move the gathering equipment from the current crossing in the old town to new, which could slow the freight traffic.
In BiH, we first contacted BiH’s indirect taxation management, which has built a border crossing with BiH and the customs terminal that is located. They headed us to the Ministry of Transport and Communications of BiH, which passed us to the address of the BiH Ministry of BiH, which did not send us an answer after seven days.
Unofficially, the problem is typical of BiH: Sarajevo does not want the border crossing to get green light until the categorization of the border crossing. Thus, the signing of a contract depends on the second contract, and Croatia is not in a hurry, given that none of these two roads are on top of the country’s strategic priorities.
The adoption of the BiH Bill Control Law Opens the way for the issue of these categories, but given that in BiH, it is not all about, it is hard to predict how and when, if it will be, This question is resolved.
The situation further complicated European sanctions for Republika Srpska, when it comes to part of Corridor 5C that passes through its territory. Due to these sanctions, the entire project was said, and the RS government has announced that Chinese investors who would implement this project, and merge the Banja Luka – Doboj merged with the future auto-bijeljina – Belgrade, whose construction is in an advanced phase.
While Vojin Mitrović was the Minister of Transport and Communications of BiH, he tried to agree to the Croatian Non-Border Transition on the Croatian side, but that the existing auto-road trip to the Gradiška is common, but the idea failed after Has Croatia entered Schengen.
If this issue is not resolved in the next few weeks, Europe could have the first completed road in their history that does not serve anything, write Independent newspapers.
