During the meeting, Hrvatske Sume CEO Krunoslav Jakopcic and the HGK Croatian Wood Cluster head, Danijel Smiljanic, signed amended agreements regulating their business cooperation.
Forests cover 47% of land in Croatia, spreading over 2,688,687 hectares. The state owns 78% of forests and 22% are privately owned. In Croatia, as much as 95% of forests grow naturally, and interventions are done only when natural regeneration is not possible, for instance after fires or due to sanitary logging.
The wood-processing sector employs over 53,000 workers and accounts for 3.6% of GDP and for 10.4% of exports.