The upper house of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Federation parliament has adopted amendments to the law about the Southern Interconnection gas pipeline project, with U.S. company AAFS Infrastructure and Energy entering as investor, a video stream of the session showed.
Sixty-one members of the House of Peoples voted in favour of the changes, three voted against, and one abstained during an extraordinary sitting on April 15, the video stream showed on Wednesday.
The project, which would link the country to an LNG terminal on Croatia’s island of Krk, is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the text of the law, which also states that no additional funds need to be secured from the Federation’s budget for its implementation.
The rights and obligations of the parties regarding the project will be regulated by an agreement between the investor and the Federation's government, to be signed within 30 days of the law entering into force.
AAFS Infrastructure and Energy sent a letter of intent to the Federation's government in January on potential cooperation for the Southern Interconnection gas pipeline project.
The law amendments also envisage new branch lines along the gas pipeline route, including a new route from Kladanj to Tuzla. The two main routes - Tomislavgrad-Suica-Kupres-Bugojno-Novi Travnik/Travnik and Posusje-Grude-Siroki Brijeg-Mostar - remain unchanged compared with the original law, while branch lines are planned to Livno, Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje, Donji Vakuf, Jajce and Capljina.
Bosnia and Herzegovina does not have its own gas production and is completely dependent on imports of Russian gas through the Turk Stream pipeline via Serbia. Currently, Russia's Gazprom delivers gas to the Federation gas supplier Energoinvest under a long-term agreement, with the price adjusted on a quarterly basis.
The Federation is one of two autonomous entities forming Bosnia and Herzegovina. The other one is the Serb Republic.
(SeeNews, April 16, 2026)
