High Representative in B&H Christian Schmidt said he supported electoral reform that would bring the country closer to European Union standards, and hoped for an agreement on such changes ahead of elections in October next year.

- It would be good if the change of the election law happens in time before the election in October 2022 - the international high representative in B&H, Christian Schmidt, told Reuters, referring to changes towards equal and democratic rights for all citizens.

- Rulings of the European Court of Human Rights have not been implemented - such as the famous Sejdić-Finci ruling which states that it cannot be that someone who does identify neither as Croat, Serb or Bosniak cannot stand for election as president. This has to be changed - Schmidt said.

His office oversees the implementation of the 1995 Dayton peace agreement that ended Bosnia's 1992-95 war. Schmidt, a former German minister, noted that the current law does not fulfil international requirements, including court rulings.

Commenting on Bosnian Croats' complaints that the law does not guarantee equal representation to all three constituent ethnicities in Bosnia - Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks - Schmidt referred to the Dayton agreement which created two entities, one comprising Bosniaks and Croats, the other the Serbs.

- The Dayton agreement states very clearly that there is no third entity, and that's the basis for my work - he said.