Bosnia and Herzegovina: N1 Bosnia and Herzegovina

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00:00:00and reviewing the work,
00:00:02so you see, we decided, this
00:00:07private connections with the president given protest note was, of course, the first step.
00:00:10I must say that we have not formally and officially received a single
00:00:13answer from any institution. I
00:00:17really hope, it was sent on Friday, well, it was
00:00:21the weekend, right? Today is Monday, I hope
00:00:25we will receive some official notification. So,
00:00:28Izetbegović refers to our next steps,
00:00:32there is collected, meaning enormous support, I cannot
00:00:35describe it to you, we decided to consult
00:00:39our colleagues from the non-governmental sector
00:00:42who have been dealing for a long time with issues
00:00:46of sociological nature, psychology,
00:00:49so the general state of society and
00:00:53the widest spectrum of activist action,
00:00:56which is a priori related to security, what we
00:00:59decided is to form a working group in the coming
00:01:03period that will try
00:01:07to coordinate and gather prominent
00:01:11experts
00:01:14from various fields that concern
00:01:18the work, more or less concern all areas
00:01:21of social action, so, uh, we
00:01:24decided to gather that group, we have already contacted several
00:01:28established organizations,
00:01:32because we believe that no
00:01:35organization in Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:01:39you for can respond to such a complex and
00:01:42we believe that a respectable working group
00:01:46of experts, male and female experts,
00:01:48should be gathered to deal with the complete
00:01:52issue, and we must wait for a response to our
00:01:55the legal deadline.
00:01:59We hope... that we will get it, who worked, we will
00:02:02inform the public about
00:02:06organizing activities, what I would
00:02:10ask all our friends,
00:02:12collaborators, is to feel free to contact
00:02:16the official email address, if they wish to
00:02:20join - in the cooperation of an informal lobby
00:02:23group on this and other issues of protecting the rights of women
00:02:27to contact them. So, to the
00:02:31prominent email address of our
00:02:34community, we will certainly include all well-intentioned
00:02:38people
00:02:40to be part of this
00:02:43story, because for a small Gračanica,
00:02:47this is an extremely big undertaking and
00:02:50we believe that we are not sufficiently capacitated to tell
00:02:54the story, but coordination and activity of awakening
00:02:58civic awareness for security. Good, good for
00:03:01that, thank you very much once again,
00:03:04we will certainly follow this whole case and we will, of course, follow
00:03:08your activities, here I would like to ask once again
00:03:11to add one sentence,
00:03:15our first encounter with this topic and a public
00:03:18recording was through
00:03:21the Factor website where
00:03:24we saw the way of communicating certain
00:03:27information and so on, I would
00:03:30ask the network of all
00:03:33media, like you do with N1 for years,
00:03:36you give us support so that all of us
00:03:40truly, professionally and humanely and in solidarity, get involved
00:03:44in thematizing
00:03:48as many educational shows as possible in which
00:03:51we will bring in experts to speak
00:03:55and analyze
00:03:57immediately reflect
00:04:00we
00:04:02rate, and one of at least create conditions for some future cases not
00:04:06to have such a precedent. Thank
00:04:10you once again, that was Larisa Šuša from the
00:04:13women's lobby group Gračanica,
00:04:16thank you.
00:04:25A conference on economic equality for women, from equal
00:04:27opportunities to leadership, was held in Sarajevo. Let's listen
00:04:31to the addresses. This
00:04:34research actually shows
00:04:38the long-standing cooperation
00:04:40between UNDP and the Agency for Gender Equality of Bosnia and
00:04:44Herzegovina, the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees
00:04:47of BiH.
00:04:50So, through the Women for Development Forum
00:04:53and UNDP's initiative
00:04:57Economics, we connect feminist
00:05:01economics, research evidence and
00:05:04women's experiences
00:05:07with public policies and institutional
00:05:10action. This
00:05:12adjusted gap of
00:05:1413%
00:05:17shows us that this difference in
00:05:20earnings cannot
00:05:23be explained only by education,
00:05:27age, and personal
00:05:29characteristics.
00:05:32Unfortunately, uh, it also shows and
00:05:36indicates structural
00:05:39inequality in the valuation of work,
00:05:43in the distribution of opportunities, as
00:05:45well as in the recognition of women's economic
00:05:49contribution. The Women for Development Forum
00:05:53represents a very important platform for us,
00:05:57because through that platform we connect
00:06:00these findings, all these researches
00:06:04practically with the voices of women, we strengthen
00:06:08partnership and we improve
00:06:11transformative
00:06:12leadership
00:06:15through the gender equality accelerator, which is a
00:06:19large program jointly implemented by UN
00:06:23agencies and the Agency for Gender
00:06:27Equality and gender centers, with
00:06:30the full financial
00:06:32support of the European Commission in Bosnia and
00:06:36Herzegovina, Sweden and
00:06:40Denmark, we...
00:06:42organized both these
00:06:46researches and this meeting
00:06:50of ours today. Thank
00:06:52your attention.
00:06:54Thank you for inviting me here today. It is an
00:06:58honor to be here at the launch of this very
00:07:01important study that supports the
00:07:04advancement of gender equality in Bosnia and
00:07:07Herzegovina.
00:07:10My name is Alissa Bronsty. and I am economist
00:07:14who supported some of this work and I want to
00:07:17highlight some of its findings,
00:07:20particularly from feminist economics
00:07:24perspective. I think one important aspect to
00:07:28highlight is that for the first time,
00:07:31Bosnia and Herzegovina have achieved the milestone of
00:07:35a statistical study that is comparable to the
00:07:39statistical standards practiced. to do these kinds
00:07:43of studies in the EU, and the
00:07:46topline finding of gender wage gap
00:07:50is 2.7%
00:07:53before controlling for any of the
00:07:56characteristics that women and men bring to the labor
00:08:00market.
00:08:08Good day to you. I thank you warmly for inviting me
00:08:12to this conference, also to your
00:08:15press conference. It is a great honor for me to be present here today
00:08:19at the launch of a study that is
00:08:22very important, that is, at its presentation, which is
00:08:26extremely important for the context of gender
00:08:30equality in Bosnia and Herzegovina and
00:08:33its advancement. Namely, I am
00:08:36an economist, my name is
00:08:40Elisa Braunstein and
00:08:43as an economist, I have supported
00:08:45the development of this study
00:08:49in certain parts and so I would like to emphasize
00:08:52certain findings which
00:08:55particularly
00:08:59the feminist economic perspective.
00:09:02Namely, this is the first time that Bosnia and
00:09:05Herzegovina has reached a
00:09:09turning point which
00:09:12shows the fulfillment, that is,
00:09:15the approximation to statistical standards that exist in
00:09:18the European Union, and the main finding of this
00:09:22study is therefore
00:09:242.7%
00:09:29before the control characteristics of
00:09:32men and women in the labor
00:09:35market, meaning 2.7%
00:09:38participation.
00:09:43gender wage gap is drawn from what i would
00:09:47say sort of the raw numbers at
00:09:49enterprises with 10 or more workers, it does not
00:09:53include the agricultural sector or the public
00:09:56administration
00:09:57sector,
00:10:03namely, the 2.7%
00:10:07that was determined in the
00:10:09study refers to
00:10:13the difference in wages, the gender
00:10:17difference in wages, this was reached
00:10:20based on raw
00:10:23data that was obtained from
00:10:27companies that employ 10 or more
00:10:31workers, which means that this percentage does not
00:10:34include, does not include agricultural
00:10:38producers, nor the public sector.
00:10:42so this study took the this this project
00:10:45took the study a step further
00:10:49and looked at what we call the adjusted gender
00:10:52wage gap, which is where the... through
00:10:55statistical analysis you can
00:10:57control for different qualities
00:11:01that women and men bring to the labor market, in
00:11:04particular things like education,
00:11:08which sector they work in and age
00:11:11as a proxy for
00:11:13experience.
00:11:16after controlling for those features, the
00:11:19gender wage gap increases from
00:11:212.7% to 13%.
00:11:31So, it was precisely through this
00:11:34project that the study went a step
00:11:38further, so it reached the so-called
00:11:42adjusted gender pay
00:11:45gap. This is very important
00:11:49for statistical analysis
00:11:52because it takes into account
00:11:56all the qualities that men and women bring
00:11:59to the labor market. These qualities refer
00:12:03to the level of education, refer
00:12:06to the sector in which they are employed, refer
00:12:09to age, which is
00:12:13a substitute value for
00:12:15experience. So, when all these
00:12:19characteristics are taken
00:12:22into account, then this gap of
00:12:262.7%, that is, the gender pay gap, increases to
00:12:2913%.
00:12:33And once you you can take this kind of analysis
00:12:37even further and look at the returns
00:12:41that women and men with the same characteristics
00:12:44um get in the labor market in Bosnia and
00:12:47Herzegovina and if you look at it from that
00:12:50way because of women's lower market
00:12:54returns. to the same
00:12:56characteristics, the gender, the they
00:12:59make negative
00:13:017% um on the wage gap, which
00:13:05means that for the characteristics that they bring to the
00:13:08labor market, they get lower returns than men
00:13:12do.
00:13:19And so, this
00:13:22analysis goes even
00:13:25further, so it talks about
00:13:29the so-called return for men and women
00:13:32in the labor market and
00:13:35with the existence of the same characteristics for
00:13:38both men and women, so a lower
00:13:42market, lower market return
00:13:45for women was observed, which amounts to
00:13:49negative seven percent, which means
00:13:52that with the same characteristics,
00:14:03women have a lower, smaller market return, and and so to close, I think it's important to focus on the fact that it's a select
00:14:06group of women that are in the labor market and that are
00:14:10studied by this analysis,
00:14:14and another important feature, gendered
00:14:17feature of the labor market in Bosnia and
00:14:19Herzegovina is that women have very low labor
00:14:23force participation.
00:14:27the most important targets in addition, in addition to looking
00:14:31at the gender wage gap, is to understand why it
00:14:35is that so few women do participate in the
00:14:38labor market, and why do they meet more
00:14:41gender inequality when they get
00:14:43there?
00:14:46and we're closing now, so I want to thank you very much for your
00:14:50attention this
00:14:51morning.
00:14:55thing, so we focused
00:14:57on a selected group of women present
00:15:01in the labor market and an analysis
00:15:05was conducted which shows
00:15:08a different characteristic
00:15:11of their presence in the labor
00:15:14market. Namely, the
00:15:18rate of women's participation
00:15:22in the labor force
00:15:25is low, along
00:15:27with the gender pay
00:15:30gap. So, we saw why so
00:15:33few women are present in the labor market and
00:15:37it was concluded that
00:15:40they face
00:15:43greater gender inequalities
00:15:46in the labor market itself. Thank you very
00:15:50much.
00:15:59The United Nations Security Council on Friday extended the mandate of the European
00:16:03Union military mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina for another year.
00:16:06And from the United States of America comes the message that political
00:16:09parties that have won the trust of citizens must start acting as soon as possible,
00:16:13while European countries insist on preserving the strong
00:16:16mandate of the High Representative with executive powers.
00:16:20The OHR report sent to New York for the last Security Council session is
00:16:24actually just an objective overview of the situation in Bosnia and
00:16:27Herzegovina, it contains facts, there are very few political qualifications
00:16:31and if there are any, they are based on verifiable
00:16:34facts. All those who hoped that now after the departure
00:16:38of Christian Schmidt the report would go in the direction
00:16:41of fulfilling someone's wishes and projections of what the real situation in Bosnia and
00:16:44Herzegovina is were wrong and it is obvious that Louis Krysok
00:16:48took his job seriously and will probably continue to do it until the end
00:16:51of his term, that is, until the election of a new permanent High Representative. So,
00:16:55warnings about blockages,
00:16:58that have long been present in this country are there, this is another warning
00:17:02to the international community that the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is not stable, on the contrary,
00:17:06it is far from it and that Bosnia and Herzegovina must continue to receive
00:17:10the case before, that other
00:17:13crises must not turn into an excuse
00:17:16not to pay attention to Bosnia and Herzegovina anymore. In this particular
00:17:19case, we can distinguish three positions within
00:17:23the international community that are reflected in the situation in Bosnia
00:17:26and Herzegovina. The first is this position of the European Union, i.e., influential
00:17:29European countries. From the speeches of their representatives at the Security
00:17:33Council, it was completely clear that they continue to stand on the positions of the need
00:17:37to preserve Bosnia and Herzegovina on the foundations of the Dayton Agreement
00:17:40and its strengthening as a state, at the same time
00:17:43warning that it is necessary to curb and
00:17:46prevent secessionist threats and everything that leads to the destabilization
00:17:50Herzegovina. Russia,
00:17:53of course, thinks that Bosnia and Herzegovina should be abandoned and that everything should be left to
00:17:56domestic politicians. The United States, whose statement,
00:18:00that is, the statement of their representative, was expected with particular attention, are, I
00:18:04would say, in a way in between, so what the Ambassador
00:18:09said at the Security Council meeting,
00:18:11reflected the American position through the message that they
00:18:14actually want to give an opportunity to these newly elected
00:18:17authorities to show whether they are capable, serious, responsible enough to take
00:18:21responsibility for the situation in the country. So, if the new authorities can eventually
00:18:25take a step further towards stabilizing the situation and implementing
00:18:28reforms, so much the better. If not, the status quo will continue, but that is
00:18:31only to the detriment of those who claim to have the ability, possibility, and
00:18:35desire to take responsibility for the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Let's not
00:18:39delude ourselves too much, regardless of how important and influential the European Union
00:18:43is and how it is the primary foreign policy goal of Bosnia and
00:18:46Herzegovina, very little can actually be done to approach that
00:18:49goal as long as there is some discrepancy in the attitude
00:18:52of the international community as a whole, and by that I mean, of course, primarily the
00:18:56West towards Bosnia and Herzegovina. When it
00:18:58comes to that issue, then I am primarily referring
00:19:02to the elections for the American Congress that await us in two
00:19:06days and things. Next, American foreign policy is actually
00:19:09something comparable to an aircraft
00:19:11carrier, it is a situation where it is very
00:19:15difficult to change the course that vessel is taking, and
00:19:19when that is done, it takes time to return to some other settings or to
00:19:23redirect it. Therefore, even if there is a significant change
00:19:26in the balance of power in the United States when it
00:19:30comes to the balance of power in Congress, it will not necessarily
00:19:35on the foreign policy of the United States because the executive powers remain
00:19:38in the hands of the Trump administration, and it will obviously
00:19:42have now, and will have in the future, many more important priorities than
00:19:46Bosnia and Herzegovina, so I think that from that side we should
00:19:50not expect any exceptionally new winds to
00:19:53blow. The only thing that Bosnia and Herzegovina can use here to
00:19:56its advantage is this impetus coming from neighboring countries,
00:19:59for example, Montenegro, which has shown that despite internal
00:20:03friction, misunderstandings and conflicts, both about the past and about
00:20:06the present, about the future,
00:20:10it can still make progress if there is good
00:20:14will to implement reforms. So, I think that in Montenegro
00:20:17they have shown that there is some minimum consensus about what the fundamental interests
00:20:21of ordinary people are, who care about improving their living standards and opening
00:20:25some perspective of getting out of the Balkan quagmire. That can
00:20:28also be done in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it's just a question of good
00:20:31will and eventual readiness to do it. I think that after the elections
00:20:35in Serbia, when Milorad Dodik lost another
00:20:38important support in his separatist policy
00:20:42and in confrontation with the whole world, except, of course, with
00:20:46the Russians, that this can also mark a positive contribution in which
00:20:50some positive energy will be created here within Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:20:53that will change things for the better, but again
00:20:56I must say that I am a bit skeptical there. A new government is being announced,
00:21:00we saw Mr. Bobakir Izetbegović who
00:21:04is now announcing that a new coalition will be established
00:21:07very soon, rejecting the SDP, but at the same time offering us some problematic concepts, at least from
00:21:11my point of view, when he says that the SDA needs a new
00:21:15Fadil Novalić, so
00:21:18the fact that the government should be taken over by people
00:21:22who have already been convicted of abuse of official position and authority and
00:21:26for that reason are in prison, and if the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:21:29is to be built or reformed in that way, then there is
00:21:31really nothing to it.
00:21:39The route of the southern interconnection is changing. The new gas pipeline
00:21:42route should bypass the problem of state property by routing it over existing
00:21:46public infrastructure. The Federal Ministry of Energy
00:21:50states that they are not familiar with these plans.
00:21:53The American company EFS is rapidly working on a feasibility study
00:21:57for the new route of the Southern Interconnection gas pipeline, which, according to the director
00:22:00of this company's branch in Bosnia and Herzegovina, should bypass state
00:22:04property and thus solve the main problem of project realization.
00:22:07Amer Bekan, in an interview with N1, says that the new project is necessary not
00:22:11only because of property but also because of the ban on the company using the old
00:22:15BH Gas project, which was financed by the European Union.
00:22:19We engaged one company in the world
00:22:22that is currently working on a new project, a new feasibility
00:22:26study. That project costs around
00:22:2910 million dollars. We are currently working on a completely new
00:22:33project. The European Union, which financed the majority
00:22:37of the southern interconnection project,
00:22:39did not give its consent for that project to be handed over to us,
00:22:43that is, for BH Gas to hand it over to us, so we are working on a completely new
00:22:46project. We are currently working on a variant
00:22:50in which the law on the south,
00:22:54that is, the law on state property,
00:22:57will not be a stumbling block to this project, that is, we are working on an
00:23:01alternative for which it will not be necessary to resolve
00:23:04state property issues. Bekan did not explain how, unofficially,
00:23:08existing infrastructure such as roads
00:23:11which are public goods would be used. Following
00:23:15roads is a more expensive and longer option, but for investors it
00:23:19apparently seems a more realistic option than waiting for
00:23:22a political solution to the issue of state property. The
00:23:25Federal Ministry of Energy is not aware that an alternative
00:23:29solution is being worked on. They previously emphasized that they are working intensively on
00:23:32the contract. The contract itself does not specify the route, but
00:23:36the directions, so the feasibility study should not be an
00:23:39obstacle to the document that should soon be signed with
00:23:42the federal authorities, says Bekan. There are a few
00:23:46points left that we need to harmonize with BiH legislation.
00:23:50"You must understand, I mean, the public
00:23:53must understand that this is ultimately not just about the southern interconnection, but about a
00:23:57complete investment
00:24:00limit or, I would say, a framework of some two million, two billion
00:24:03euros, and such things must
00:24:06be checked, must be
00:24:09harmonized, because at one point that investment must not be
00:24:12jeopardized. Let's remember that according to the law on the southern interconnection, which
00:24:16the federal parliament adopted in April, domestic authorities were given
00:24:20one month to harmonize and sign the contract for the construction
00:24:23of the southern interconnection gas pipeline. The deadline expired
00:24:26in May. Almir Bačarević comments that because of all
00:24:30of the above, he does not believe that the works will start before
00:24:332030, if it even happens
00:24:37at all. You know Mr. Lakić's statement that the southern
00:24:40interconnection will be built by 2020, by the end of
00:24:442027, when Russian gas will no longer be in
00:24:47Europe. You know when it will be built, 2027. It will never
00:24:50be built, not even in 2030, because
00:24:53how can you build 200 km of gas pipeline
00:24:57in one year? It's impossible, you don't even have a project, you have nothing, you don't have permits,
00:25:01you have nothing, you don't have expropriation, there are no basic
00:25:03things. We asked Bekan, but the American
00:25:07company has never commented on deadlines, precisely because of the complexity
00:25:11of the project. When will the new contract be signed,
00:25:15the director of Energoinvest is not aware, but it is a
00:25:18strategic project that will ensure
00:25:20competitive gas prices and therefore it must be
00:25:23insisted upon. The question of what is too slow, I will tell you
00:25:27for Krk, for example, as an LNG terminal, Croatia worked on that project for almost 10, 15
00:25:31years, these are not projects that are solved in one
00:25:34year, in six months, there was a very big pressure to speed everything
00:25:38up, but the reality of those projects is longer, unfortunately we are victims
00:25:42of inaction in the previous period, otherwise, let's remember that Democratic
00:25:45Congressman Bill Keating published on September 15th with the support
00:25:49of colleagues from the party a report in which he problematizes American
00:25:52support for the company AFS in the Southern
00:25:55Interconnection project. The construction of the gas pipeline is not in dispute, what is in dispute
00:25:59is the experience of the investor and his political ties with
00:26:03the Donald administration. Trap. I believe this
00:26:06happened solely due to their
00:26:09that they have absolutely no experience in managing liquefied natural
00:26:13gas pipelines nor experience in the Western
00:26:16Balkans. The State Department responded to these allegations by saying
00:26:19that concession models were the choice of American companies and were
00:26:23sovereign decisions of officials of the Federation of Bosnia and
00:26:25Herzegovina. A similar response came from the American
00:26:29investor. Tina Elindis da R.
00:26:35The Ugljevik thermal power plant is back in operation thanks to coal arriving from
00:26:39the Bukova Kosa mine near Prijedor, which has temporarily
00:26:42reduced the need for electricity imports. However, energy
00:26:45economic experts warn that this is not a long-term solution and that
00:26:49the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina could face new electricity price increases as early as the beginning
00:26:53of next year. Estimates speak of price increases of up to
00:26:5630%, and the consequences could also be felt through rising prices
00:27:00of other products and services.
00:27:04Online shopping changes consumer habits, but it raises questions
00:27:08of security, customer protection, and merchant business practices. While
00:27:12citizens are increasingly shopping online, the domestic market is still
00:27:15looking for a way to keep up with this
00:27:17trend.
00:27:19To look for a desired product at home and buy it online or go from
00:27:23store to store and choose. Although it is gaining
00:27:26popularity, trust in online shopping and the experiences of citizens
00:27:30are still varied.
00:27:32is the thing, you don't have to bother, you can order from home, that's
00:27:36it, you won't believe it, I bought chocolates online, they show you
00:27:40for example coffee, you would usually buy coffee, now
00:27:43instead of going somewhere, you know you'll need that coffee, I'll buy it
00:27:47online, 2 kg, let it sit, I also look at prices
00:27:51depending on what I need, household,
00:27:54clothes, shoes, not that often, you have conveniences, you go in and
00:27:58buy closer, I don't want to buy until I touch it, I don't
00:28:02like anything. My wife and daughter buy, they probably buy something
00:28:05too. One of the key factors when buying is the price,
00:28:08the same product in different stores can cost significantly
00:28:12more or less, which is why citizens are increasingly comparing prices.
00:28:15One example of such a possibility is the platform Škrtica.B
00:28:19which was recently launched by Dženan Hamzić, a resident of Zenica with an address in
00:28:23Austria. Average savings on Škrtica between current
00:28:27offers is about 61 or 62
00:28:30marks, but for larger products, household appliances, for
00:28:33televisions, for mobile phones, that difference is significant, I have
00:28:37a good example from yesterday where my wife was looking for
00:28:41a vacuum cleaner and we found a difference of 700
00:28:44marks. Although interest in online shopping is growing, the domestic
00:28:47market still lags behind more developed countries, especially when it comes
00:28:51to product availability and ease of ordering. In
00:28:54many countries around the world, online trade practically
00:28:58surpasses in importance and influence traditional
00:29:01trade. Practically everything is bought and ordered online,
00:29:05this is a trend that it would be normal to
00:29:08fully transfer to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Unfortunately, in
00:29:12our country, many things still cannot be ordered online in
00:29:16as practical a way as in the world. Because of this, some citizens
00:29:19are increasingly turning to foreign platforms, especially
00:29:22low-budget ones from China. However, economists believe that they are
00:29:25useful for consumers because they often offer citizens to buy the same products
00:29:29significantly cheaper than on the domestic market. Any
00:29:33burdening of such
00:29:36trade, or such purchases with additional duties, as
00:29:39is done in the European Union, would be very
00:29:42wrong, it would discourage and make such
00:29:45trade more expensive, on the other hand, it would contribute to even
00:29:48higher prices on the domestic market. The development
00:29:52of online trade is also accompanied by problems, according to estimates by the relevant
00:29:55ministry, due to the gray economy in electronic trade, the Federation
00:29:59of Bosnia and Herzegovina annually loses more than 200 million marks
00:30:03in public revenue. The new law on electronic trade in
00:30:06the Federation, according to announcements from the relevant ministry, could
00:30:09regulate the current situation. One of the main goals of this
00:30:13law is to ensure a safe
00:30:16purchase for consumers in such a way
00:30:19that the law clearly stipulates that the price of the product
00:30:23must be clearly displayed, delivery costs, and that
00:30:27returns of goods
00:30:29that do not correspond to how they were
00:30:33presented in sales are enabled. All
00:30:36European directives have been applied in this law,
00:30:40so unregistered sales via social networks will be regulated, for those who
00:30:43operate outside the regulations, fines of 3,000 to
00:30:4630,000 marks are foreseen, while this area is not regulated,
00:30:50citizens are left to carefully choose from whom and how they buy,
00:30:53Feđa Kulina N1.
00:30:57N1.
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