• adopt a BiH law on the state Civil Service providing for the selection, management, career progression, compensation and social benefits of public employees in a such a way to foster professionalism and political independence;
• strengthen the Standing Committee on Military Matters (SCMM);
• expand use of the Marshall Center and equivalent institutions for civil service  training;
• create through the IMC a permanent system for regulation and control of the broadcasting sector with a fair, open and professional regulatory system for  broadcast media throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina. This regulatory system is important to the development of a media market and the larger market economy.

4. The Council notes the lack of progress in setting up parliamentary services for the Parliamentary Assembly and the working committees of both Houses.

The Council insists that both must be fully functioning at the Marijn Dvor building by 1 February 1999.

The Council expects the Parliamentary Assembly to adopt all legislation brought into force on an interim basis thus far by the High Representative by 1 March 1999.

The Council also expects the Parliamentary Assembly to take a decision on the  National Anthem, choosing between the options developed by the Commission of local, independent experts.

5. BiH Constitutional Court: The Council is concerned about the financial situation of the BiH Constitutional Court. It notes that the 1998 BiH Budget did not provide for sufficient financial means for the Court and forced its President to urgently request a budget re-balancing to cover outstanding expenditures. So far, the Court has not been allocated any additional money. The Council considers that the Court's financial problems should be solved immediately through a more substantial allocation from the 1999 BiH budget that the Court should be entitled to dispose of without any interference by the Executive. Moreover, the Council stresses the need to establish an additional voluntary contribution fund to achieve a sound structural basis for the  proper functioning of the Court.

6. Developing Entity Institutions: More effective institutions at the state level must be matched by effective institutions at the Entity level, playing to the full the role set Out for them in the GFAP. The Council appeals for full commitment by the Entity authorities to building more effective state institutions.

The Council welcomes efforts in Republika Srpska to fight widespread corruption. It calls upon the Republika Srpska leadership to multiply its efforts to develop an independent, impartial and multi-ethnic judiciary and a professional multi-ethnic police force.

The Council calls upon the leaders of the Federation to fight resolutely against corruption and to increase efforts to build an independent judiciary. Federation level political forces should and could do much more to contribute to functioning

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