Main participants in investor’s incitement and assistance

•  The Ministry of Economy and Finance

The Ministry of Economy and Finance contributes decisively to the elaboration, signature, and implementation of investment conventions regarding major projects signed between investors and the State.

Generally, the contribution of the Ministry relates to the allocation of real estate at incentive prices, tax and duty exemption, as well as to other incentives in tax and customs matters.

• The Department of Investment

The Department of Investment (Direction des Investissements), a department within the Ministry of General Affairs, is in charge of the promotion of investment, at the regulatory level as well as the level of support measures.

• Regional Investment Centres (Centres Régionaux d’Investissement)

The Royal letter addressed by His Majesty the King to the Prime Minister on January 9th 2002, regarding the decentralized management of investment, instituted the creation of Regional Investment Centres, under the supervision of the region’s Wali.

Regional Investment Centres have two important missions; helping to set up enterprises and providing assistance to investors. Two desks are available for this purpose:

• The assistance to enterprise creation desk

As sole interlocutor of any person wishing to create an enterprise, the desk is intended to:

• Provide investors with one single form comprising all information relevant to the creation of an enterprise
  
• Collect documents and certificates necessary to the creation of an enterprise, from relevant administrations

• The assistance to investors desk

The desk is intended to:

• provide investors with all useful information on regional investment.
   
• study all applications for administrative authorizations and prepare all documents necessary to investment projects in the industrial, agri-business, mining, tourism, handicraft, and housing sectors, if the investment planned does not exceed MD 200 million, and thus allow the regional Wali to issue the authorizations and to sign the administrative deeds relevant to these projects.
   
• study the draft contracts or conventions to be signed with the State, if the investment is equal to or exceeds MD 200 million, and submit them to the relevant government authority for approval and signature by contracting parties.
   
• suggest amicable solutions to resolve disputes between investors and the administration.