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Foreign Investors Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Foreign Trade Chamber of Bosnia and Herzegovina and, in cooperation with the audit and consulting company PricewaterhouseCoopers Sarajevo, organized education on transfer pricing for taxpayers, companies, members of the Foreign Trade Chamber of BiH and Foreign Investors Council of BiH. Speakers at the press conference were Ms. Medina Dudo from the Federal Ministry of Finance and Ms. Mubera Brkovic, Tax Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers Sarajevo. The seminar was attended by over 80 representatives of domestic and foreign companies.

Ministry of Economy of the Sarajevo Canton plans to organize "International Business Conference 2016", in Sarajevo, on September 29, 2016. This Conference will bring together most sagnificant economy and finance experts from the country and abroad, as well as representatives of foreign and domestic companies from different sectors of the economy.

Loan of €4.5m to connect households, cut water losses, introduce EU quality standards. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is supporting an upgrade of the water supply network in Visoko, a municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which will raise potable water quality to European standards and connect a third of the population to water network, providing 11,500 people with potable running water for the first time.

The largest conference on renewable energy, energy efficiency and the environment in Bosnia and Herzegovina of RENEXPO BiH will be held on 9 and 10 November 2016 at the hotel Hills in Sarajevo.

President Chakrabarti will meet governments and businesses to reaffirm EBRD support for regional dialogue; announce Annual Meeting 2019 to be held in Sarajevo

Vienna/Bana Luka/Mostar, 7 July 2016

Addiko Bank is the new brand under which the former Hypo Group Alpe Adria AG will start operating as of 11 July. The new brand identity reflects the bank's new business strategy, its unique positioning, but first and foremost its commitment to improvement and changing the way we feel banking should be done - straightforward banking.

TBG BH doo Kakanj, a company owned by cement plant Tvornica cementa Kakanj and a member of the German HeidelbergCement Group, took over the concrete mixing company W & P Concrete Ltd. Ilidza. From now on, TBG BH will supply its customers with superior quality concrete via additional two concrete plants in Rajlovac and Zenica. With this acquisition TBG BH strengthens its leading position in the market of ready-mixed concrete in BiH.

FBiH Employers Association, Union of Independent Trade Unions of BiH, BiH Foreign Trade Chamber, Foreign Investors Council of BiH, FBiH Chamber of Commerce and FIPA today organized a press conference regarding the recent amendments to the Rulebook on the Implementation of the FBiH Income Tax Law.

On 12 July 2016, in Sarajevo started a unique program Coca-Cola summer practice called Coke Summership. Coca-Cola HBC B-H Sarajevo is gathered 20 participants of the first generation of programs that have been selected from over 900 applicants. The first day of the program was spent in getting to know the company, program and mentors, learning and fun will continue through the next six weeks in which participants will have the opportunity to learn about innovative methods of doing business that the world's largest brand run for more than 130 years.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a sovereign loan of up to €65 million to Bosnia and Herzegovina to support an infrastructure programme aimed at repairing and upgrading the country's road network, which has been damaged by severe floods in recent years.