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In October 2020, the EU adopted new rules on foreign direct investment. The reason for the new regulation, according to the European Commission, is in fact concerns about investors from third countries, closely linked to their domestic governments, who take over European companies with key technologies for strategic reasons, and doubts that EU investors often do not enjoy the same investment rights in the investors'''' origin country.

In October, the Executive Director of FIC Sanja Miovčić held a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of BiH, Mr. Staša Košarac. The topic of the meeting was the improvement of the investment climate and the implementation of current investment projects in BiH, as well as ways to strengthen cooperation between the Council of Foreign Investors and the Ministry in areas of interest to foreign investors in the country.

The World Bank team, who is in charge for "BiH Commercial Justice Technical Assistance Project", organized a focus group in October for lawyers from Bosnia and Herzegovina who are active in the field of economy, including law firms that are FIC members, such as: Dimitrijevic & Partners, Maric & Co, CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz, Wolf Theiss, DMB Legal and Karanovic & Partners.

United Nations Development Program in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNDP BiH), with support of Sweden, at a ceremony organized at the International Center for Children and Youth Novo Sarajevo in Sarajevo today proclaimed the SDG Business Pioneers in BiH for the second time ever.

The members of the FIC Working Group for Education and Employment, on October 7, 2020, held a meeting on the preliminary draft of the new Law on Employees' Council of FBiH. At the meeting, FIC members had the opportunity to submit their comments on the proposed text of the Law, which were subsequently submitted to the FBiH Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, which is the proposer of this law.

Violeta and representatives of 8 safe houses in BiH signed donation agreement Representatives of the United Nations (UN), the British Embassy in BiH and Violeta organized a ceremonial signing of a donation agreement with representatives of eight safe houses in Sarajevo. The signing ceremony was magnified by speeches of Ingrid Macdonald, UN Resident Coordinator in...

The project "100 largest in BiH" which is traditionally organized by Poslovne novine in co-organization with the Foreign Trade Chamber of BiH and the credit rating agency LRC Sarajevo, and the general sponsor EuroExpress d.o.o. Banja Luka, aims to show that BiH has a very successful companies that are recognized in both domestic and international markets, and among which were many FIC members. The award ceremony for the most successful companies according to the business results in 2019 was held on September 29, 2020 in Sarajevo.

This year, Kakanj Cement Factory (HeidelbergCement Group) had the honor of receiving the Platinum Creditworthiness Certificate of Excellence, as a first company in Bosnia and Herzegovina who received this award. Analytical credit rating agency Bisnode, every year organizes the awarding ceremony of international recognitions for the quality of business to the best companies in BiH.

On September 23, the company ArcelorMittal Zenica officially announced the completion of two very important environmental protection projects at the plants of the agglomeration and steel, with a total value of more than 15 million KM. The environmental protection project in Zenica included the construction of a second hybrid filter on the SM-6 in the agglomeration and secondary dedusting at the convector Steelworks, which will give the citizens of Zenica a better environment, and the company ArcelorMittal Zenica met the requirements of the environmental permit.

(preliminary data for 2019 and 2020 and official data for 2018)