In United Nations Security Council resolution 1396, adopted unanimously on 5 March 2002, after recalling resolutions 1031, 1088, 1112, 1256 and 1357 on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Council welcomed the acceptance by the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council on 28 February 2002 of the offer of the European Union to provide a European Union Police Mission to succeed the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1 January 2003. Wikipedia