Data-center law in Bosnia and Herzegovina

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06

Bosnia and Herzegovina has no data-center-specific siting, permitting, incentive, or utility-connection statute.

A data-center project's foreign ownership is governed by the general state-level Law on the Policy of Foreign Direct Investment in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of BiH No. 17/98, as amended by Nos. 13/03, 48/10 and 22/15), which grants a foreign investor the same rights and obligations as a resident, national treatment, free repatriation of investment proceeds, and protection against uncompensated expropriation, without naming information technology, data infrastructure, or any other sector for a distinct incentive, customs exemption, or tax benefit; because the Law grants no affirmative incentive and no siting, permitting, energy-grid, water-utility, environmental-review, construction, or air-operations rule of its own, it is described here as general background rather than recorded as a data-center-specific instrument.

Land use, environmental permitting, energy-grid connection, and water-utility service for a data-center project would instead run through Bosnia and Herzegovina's general planning, environmental, and utility regimes at the entity level (the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska, and Brcko District each administer their own); those entity-level regimes are not described here.