The cabinet of Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic decided on Wednesday to amend the government's decision of May 2014 on setting up barriers on roads along the border with Bosnia and Serbia in a bid to prevent illegal passage outside border crossings, enhance the control of the borderline and curb off all forms of smuggling and trafficking.

Explaining the amendment, Croatian Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic said that the state border supervision legislation envisaged that all roads and routes that were not in the function of crossing the border could be obstructed by barriers so as to halt illegal border crossings outside the official border crossings and a decision to that effect was adopted by the Croatian government in April 2014.

The latest inspection on the ground has pointed to the need to set up barriers at 13 additional locations along the state border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bozinovic said today.

The appropriate barriers could be cement blocks or ditches that can prevent vehicles from passing, according to the minister’s explanation.

All this is supposed to help improve control of the state border and thwart all forms of smuggling and trafficking along the borderline covered by the Croatian police in the four counties: Sisak-Moslavina, Dubrovnik-Neretva, Lika-Senj and Zadar.

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