The Federal Ministry of Environment and Tourism is in secret, and although it is a legal obligation, without any discussion with the interested parties, and above all with the operator of the system which in its fifth year on the ground implements Ordinance on behalf of the packaging economy fulfills all the obligations that it prescribes, published Ordinance on termination of the Ordinance on packaging and packaging waste (Official Gazette of FBiH no. 16/08).

 As a responsible operator of the system on the occasion of the publication of the Ordinance on termination of the Ordinance on packaging and packaging waste Ekopak has taken a series of activities in order to protect their business and protect the interests of its clients:

- the lowest sustainable packaging fees and that these fees spend for the purposes for which they are intended

- establishment of a system of separate collection and recycling of packaging waste based on the best European practices.

The taken actions are already yielding results.

Acting on the request of Ekopak Competition Council BiH ordered the Federal Ministry of Environment and Tourism temporary measure to revoke the application of the Ordinance on termination of the Ordinance on packaging and packaging waste (Official Gazette of FBiH no. 8/16)

Given the fact that the publication of the Ordinance on termination of the Ordinance on packaging and packaging waste (Official Gazette of FBiH no. 08/16), Federal Ministry of Environment and Tourism grossly violated the provisions of the Law on competition BiH: closed the market, eliminated competition and gave monopoly to Environmental protection Fund FBiH, Ekopak addressed the Competition Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is acting upon the request of Ekopak on the day 30.03.2016.g. issued a Decision number 06-26-3-007-3-II / 16 on interim measures which:

- Orders the Federal Ministry of Environment and Tourism to temporarily revoke the application of the Ordinance on termination of the Ordinance on packaging and packaging waste (Official Gazette FBiH No. 8/16)

- The temporary measure is determined for a period of three months and the same can be extended if necessary and justified in terms of Article 40 of the Law.

- The decision is final and will be published in the Official Gazette of BiH, the official gazettes of entities and Brcko District.

The reasoning of the Decision states: "Competition Council has preliminarily determined that the Federal ministry of environment and tourism violated the provision of Article 4 paragraph (1) of the competition for the terms of the Ordinance limiting the market in a way that imposes the obligation for the operators of the system to all obligations including all contracts which the operators have concluded with other undertakings (polluters and collectors), and the remaining unspent funds transferre to PU Environmental protection Fund FBiH, which directly closes the market and eliminate competition or disables businesses that possessed Decision on the authorization of system operator of packaging waste management. "In Annex III of this notice please find the most important parts of the Decision of the Competition council of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The decision of the Competition Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina was published in:

- BiH Official Gazette number 35/16 of 05/13/2016. year, which can be downloaded here.

- Official Gazette of BiH no. 41/16 of 05/27/2016. year, which can be downloaded here.

This means that the application of the Ordinance on packaging and packaging waste continued (Official Gazette of FBiH no. 88/11 and 28/13).

We invite all system taxpayers which are not yet included in the system of Ekopak to do so in order to reinforcing your support, continue to actting in the direction in which we started: to develop a sustainable system of packaging and packaging waste legally, expertly, professionally, transparently, with the highest ethical standards and at the lowest sustainable cost, with the least impact on consumer prices and the greatest benefits for the environment in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which Ekopak will persist.