The Government of the Republic of Srpska adopted during its second session the Draft Law on Changes and Amendments to the Law on Energy upon urgent procedure.

The reasons for adopting the amendments to the Law on Energy are the need to introduce a new activity of electricity storage in this regulation, which defines activities in the energy sector and helps regulate exemptions from obtaining a storage permit. The current Law which entered into force in 2009 and subsequent amendments from 2023 did not address this activity while the Law on Electricity did not address this activity either. Rapid expansion of electricity production using solar panels, the effects of which are better exploited by possible energy storing using battery systems and better availability in terms of reducing the price of batteries, led to the need to enable the use and regulate this area. The amendments to the Electricity Law introduce a new storage activity, and it was necessary to prescribe the same in the Energy Law, in the part where all energy activities are listed. In addition to the above amendments related to the electricity storage activity, the amendments prescribe the possibility for the National Assembly to designate a project of special importance for the Republic of Srpska.

The Government adopted a Regulation on the amount of the fee for the use of road land.

The reason for adopting this regulation is to determine the amount of the fee that legal entities, entrepreneurs and natural persons as users pay based on the lease of road land for public roads, except for local roads and streets in settlements. Road land is provided for use for a fee for the purpose of carrying out related activities such as catering, trade, gas stations and other activities. The fee for the use of road land is calculated per square meter of road land area, and if road land that forms part of a cadastral plot is provided for use on a lease basis, the road manager is obliged to determine the area of ​​the part of the road land that is provided for use and to determine the fee for the area thus determined. It is also stipulated that the relations between the road manager and the user are regulated by a lease agreement.

The Government has adopted a Decree amending the Decree on the amount of the fee for connecting to a public road and constructing facilities in the road and road protection zone.

The reason for adopting this decree is to prescribe the amount of the fee for issuing a construction permit in cases where newspaper stands, substations, all types of transmitters, garages, porters, etc. are built or installed in the protection zone of a main and regional road, for which the amount of the fee was not prescribed by the Decree. It has also been established that, when issuing a permit for the construction or extension of facilities, the fee is calculated depending on the area of ​​the construction land, which is not favorable for users, and the amendment to the Decree stipulates that the fee is calculated depending on the construction area, which is a much more favorable calculation for users. It was also necessary to precisely define certain terms and to provide for a fee for issuing consent for the connection of a temporary access road as an access to the construction site.

The Government of the Republic of Srpska has adopted the Information on Implementation of the Basis of the Social Welfare Program for Workers for 2025.

According to the Budget and the Budget Rebalance for 2025, the plan to allocate funds in the amount of BAM 800,000.00 for social welfare of workers who have lost their jobs due to the bankruptcy, privatization and liquidation of the companies in which they worked, out of which 750,000.00 is designated for the payment of contributions for pension and disability insurance, and 50,000.00 for payment of contributions for unemployment insurance.

In the 2025 Budget, at the proposal of the Commission, the Government of the Republic of Srpska issued four decisions within this program, and BAM 747,986.19 had been spent on the payment of pension and disability insurance contributions for 313 workers from 24 companies.

In the period from 2004 to the end of 2025, total funds paid for implementation of the Social Care Program for Workers amount to BAM 216,921,245.22. These funds were used to provide social welfare for 72,685 workers from 555 companies, of which 8,097 workers from companies that are in the process of privatization, bankruptcy and liquidation were able to exercise their right to old-age pension through a Public Call. Excluding the amount of the return of funds from the bankruptcy estate, in the period from 2004 to 2025, funds in the amount of BAM 190,071,404.75 were allocated from the Budget of the Republic of Srpska for social welfare of workers.

The Government of the Republika Srpska adopted the Information on the necessary funds for construction, rehabilitation and reconstruction of primary and secondary schools in Republic of Srpska and tasked the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of Finance to provide additional funds in the amount of BAM 940,000.00 in the 2026 Budget for the purpose of reconstrcuction and rehabilitation of primary and secondary schools in  Republic of Srpska.

The funds will be used for extension of the building of the "Petar II Petrović Njegoš" primary school in Bileća (600,000.00), for rehabilitation and reconstruction of the wet rooms in the building of the "Nikola Tesla" Electrical Engineering School in Banja Luka (300,000.00) and for construction of a connecting hall between the school building and the sports hall of the "Petar Kočić" Secondary School Center in Srbac (40,000.00).

The Government adopted the Decision on granting consent to the Ministry of Family, Youth and Sports to the Expenditure Plan for the period from 1 January to 31 March 2026, in total amount of BAM 699,000.00, which will be allocated for the interest rate subsidy for housing loans to young people and young married couples.

The Government of the Republika Srpska accepted the Information on the need to provide funds for the preparation of a report on the geological surveys conducted in the Trgovska Gora case.

The Government of the Republika Srpska instructed the Ministry of Finance to provide funds in total amount of ABAM 150,000.00 for the purposes of preparing a report on the geological surveys conducted in the territory of the Republika Srpska in the Trgovska Gora case.

The Government of the Republika Srpska instructed the Republic Institute for Geological Research and the Ministry of Energy and Mining, as the competent ministry for the work of the Republic Institute for Geological Research, to inform the Government of the Republika Srpska about the implementation of the funds.

The Government instructed the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Construction and Ecology to coordinate the activities of drafting the Elaborate on the geological research conducted in the territory of the Republika Srpska in the case of Trgovska Gora, as an expert mechanism to permanently prevent the construction of a storage and disposal site for radioactive waste on Trgovska Gora.