Bosnia and Herzegovina
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Bosnia and Herzegovina presents moderate crawling risk, elevated by legal complexity rather than substantive restrictions. BiH has four Criminal Codes (state, Federation entity, Republika Srpska entity, and Brcko District) all of which criminalise unauthorised computer access in line with the Budapest Convention (ratified 2006); a security mechanism must be bypassed for criminal liability. The state-level Law on Copyright and Related Rights (2010, TRIPS/EU-aligned) includes a sui generis database producer right, though exact article numbers were not independently verified from the primary text. A new GDPR-aligned Law on Personal Data Protection entered into force in March 2025 (OG BiH No. 12/25, applicable from October 2025), replacing the 2006 law. No TDM exception exists. No AI-specific law. The multi-layer constitutional structure (two entities plus Brcko District) means that criminal and civil jurisdiction can be fragmented, raising enforcement unpredictability — hence the low confidence rating and fast_moving flag.
Automated-access legality
Carried forward from the crawler-law index. Governs whether automated clients may access public websites in this jurisdiction.
| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Authorization test | security mechanism bypass |
| Public-page carve-out | yes |
| Terms-of-service browsewrap enforceable | notice dependent |
| Terms-of-service clickwrap enforceable | yes |
| Copyright exception model | closed list |
| Text and data mining — commercial status | prohibited |
| Text and data mining — opt-out mechanism | none |
| robots.txt legal weight | non binding notice |
| AI training-specific law | none |
| Privacy regime | Law on Personal Data Protection (OG BiH No. 12/25, in force March 2025, applicable October 2025) — GDPR-aligned |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: low. Fast-moving area — verify before relying. Not legal advice.