Reasons for law on collective management of copyright and related rights enactment

Having signed Stabilization and Association Agreement with European Community (further in text: EC) in 2008, Bosnia and Herzegovina committed itself, on its path to full membership to European Community, to adopt acquis communautaire. In september 2008 within the EuropeAid Programme financed by European Community, Bosnia and Herzegovina accepted full responsibility to improve collective management of copyright and related rights at the legislative level in order to achieve full accordance of domestic law with European Community legal system as well as with valid international conventions and treaties in that field (Berne Convention, Rome Convention, Brussels Convention, TRIPS Agreement and treaties WCT and WIPT). At the same time, responsibility of providing higher nomotechnical level of a new law as well as its comparable nature with similar contemporary regulations of other members of European Community was added to the main task. In applicable Law on Copyright and Related Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina (ZAPSP/2002) collective management of copyright and related rights has been treated in a very unsatisfying way. That crucial issue is treated by ten articles only, if we take into consideration all articles in chapters of Law which, at least, treat realization of rights by title. However, by such narrow regulation a lot of questions have become opened, therefore, one of intention of enacting this law is overcoming lack of law in that field.