Organized by the of Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH (FIPA), a meeting of representatives of the Cooperation Network for Support to Foreign Investors in BiH was held on February 28, 2023 in Sarajevo with the aim to discuss the Post-Investment Support for Foreign Investments realized so far.
Representatives of the Network are working
together to identify barriers to doing business and to eliminate them as soon
as possible in order to contribute to increasing the competitiveness of the
business environment and increasing foreign capital in the country.
The Cooperation Network includes 42
institutions and since 2013, with the technical support of IFC, has been
implementing a joint program of post-investment support to investors.
In her speech, the FIPA Secretary PhD Maida
Bećirović spoke about increasing the inflow of foreign investments in 2021 in
BiH with a focus on increasing the percentage of reinvestments in the total
amount of foreign investments in 2021 and 2022. During 2021, in the total
amount of foreign investments, 59% represent reinvestments of existing foreign
investors, while for nine months of 2022, that percentage amounts to 75.3% of
reinvestments.
She also emphasized that the support of all
levels of government in BiH is needed in the realization of foreign
investments.