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At the end of the summer, FIC Executive office started activities on the preparation of a new report of the Foreign Investors Council in BiH, titled "Business Barometer 2020".

On August 5, 2020 in Zavidovici (BiH) was held a wood-technological and tourist conference called €˜Tajan 2020', organized by the wood cluster "Furniture and Wood" and supported by FBiH Chamber of Commerce and other partners from BiH and region.

The FIC requested that the Council of Ministers, in accordance with its powers, address certain outstanding issues in the segment of the pandemic caused by the COVID-19.

Yesterday, a volunteer action was held in Sarajevo, organized by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Italian Embassy in BiH, the Mountaineering Ski Association 'Center' Sarajevo, Mountaineering and Ecological Association 'Romania' Pale, and Terra Dinarica Association from Sarajevo.

The Executive Director of FIC, Sanja Miovcic, met with Mr. Nedim Hamzić, the new Secretary General of the American Chamber of Commerce in BiH (AmCham BiH), a non-governmental organization and part of the European and global network of AmChams, whose task is to establish a platform to develop business opportunities and promote high standards of business practice and strengthen partnerships between the business community and BiH government bodies at all levels.

Bosna Bank International (BBI) u okviru Sarajevo Business Foruma (SBF) 2020 i inicijative 'Mi to možemo", a u saradnji sa projektom 'Dijaspora za razvoj" organizirala je 5. SBF online sesiju"DIGITALNI OPORAVAK: Podrška digitalnoj transformaciji bh. kompanija kao odgovor na COVID-19 €ť. Inače, 'Dijaspora za razvoj" (D4D) je projekat Ministarstva za ljudska prava i izbjeglice BiH i Vlade Švicarske, u partnerstvu sa UNDP BiH i IOM BiH. Moderatori 5. SBF sesije bili su prof. Eddie Custovic i prof. Damir Mitric, članovi Upravnog odbora BH Futures Foundation.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided that IQOS, a product of Philip Morris that heats rather than burns tobacco, can be classified as a "modified risk tobacco product" (MRTP), and that informing consumers about reduced exposure harmful substances when using this device in accordance with the promotion of public health.

At the beginning of July, the FIC sent an initiative of the FIC members from the tobacco industry to the competent BiH institutions in the form of an appeal to suppress the illegal trade in tobacco products, which increased especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A comprehensive analytical review of foreign investment in the Federation of BiH in the year of the projected global recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic was the main point of the 7^th session of the FBiH Council for Foreign Investors held on June 24, via a video link at the FBiH Government headquarters in Sarajevo, chaired by Federal Minister of Trade Zlatan Vujanovic.

In an interview for the Banja Luka''s portal Srpska Info, SHP Celex production director Dragana Obradović and sales manager Mario Blažević talk about the challenges that this Banja Luka-based company faced due to the enormous demand for toilet paper and difficult transport, and how to quickly adapt to new situation on market.