At the cantonal level, the responsible authorities are cantonal ministries for spatial planning. At the level of the two entities which comprise Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Ministry for Spatial Planning and the Environment acts in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) and the Ministry for Spatial Planning, Construction and Ecology is the relevant body in the Serb Republic (RS).
The applicable laws are:
- The FBiH Law on Spatial Planning and the Use of Land (Official Gazette of the FBiH no. 2/06,72/07, 32/08, 4/10, 13/10, 45/10)
- The Law on Spatial Planning and Construction in the RS (Official Gazette of the RS no. 40/13, 2/15 – The Decision of the Constitutional Court, 106/15 and 3/16 – correction, 104/18 – The Decision of the Constitutional Court and 84/19)
- The FBiH Law on the Protection of the Environment (Official Gazette of the FBiH no. 15/21)
- The RS Law on the Protection of the Environment (Official Gazette of RS no. 71/12, 79/15 and 70/20)
- The Law on Expropriation applied in the FBiH (Official Gazette of the FBiH no. 70/07, 36/10, 25/12, 8/15 – The Decision of the Constitutional Court and 34/16)
- The RS Law on Expropriation (Official Gazette of the RS nos. 112/06, 37/07 110/08, 106/10 - The Decision of the Constitutional Court, 121/10 – The Decision of the Constitutional Court, 2/15 – The Decision of the Constitutional Court and 79/15)
