The High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina is an independent institution established under the Law on the HJPC BIH on 1 June 2004, with the task of ensuring the maintenance of an independent, impartial and professional judiciary in BiH. The Law establishes the following remit: appointment of judges, prosecutors and legal associates, disciplinary responsibility, judicial administration and statistics, judicial institutions budgets, supervision over professional development, introduction of ICT systems,  as well as taking a leading role in the implementation and coordination of reform activities in the BiH justice sector. 

The High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina is also a state-level regulatory body establishing the standards of ethics and professional conduct for judicial community. 

In accordance with Article 4 of the Law, the Council is composed of representatives of the BiH legal community (judges, prosecutors and lawyers), and the executive and legislature. Council members are elected for a term of four years with the possibility of re-election. Article 4 of the Law also provides that the ethnic and gender composition of the Council shall reflect the structure of the population according to the 1991 census, so that the Council so formed shall be composed of six Bosniaks, five Serbs, three Croats and one member from the rank of Others.