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UNCTAD has been collecting information on changes in national foreign direct investment (FDI) policies on an annual basis since 1992. This collection has provided input to the analysis of global and regional investment policy trends in the World Investment Report, the Investment Policy Monitors and the UNCTAD-OECD Reports on G20 Measures.
In 2024, to further strengthen the quality of reporting, UNCTAD revised the methodology of monitoring investment policy measures. and revised the measures going back to 2012 accordingly.
The Investment Policy Monitor provides the international investment community with country-specific, up-to-date information about the latest developments in foreign investment policies.
Through its monitoring of investment policy changes, UNCTAD offers cutting-edge and innovative contributions to investment policy discourse, and contributes to preparing the ground for future policymaking in the interest of making foreign investment work for sustainable development.
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Egypt
Reforms the free zones regime
21 Aug 2022On 21 August 2022, the Prime Minister issued General Authority for Investment Decree No. 159 for the year 2022, which provides the following, among others:
- Allowing free zone projects to sell up to 50% of their products in the local market for six months, except in prohibited areas.
- Permitting free zone projects to sell their stocks (raw materials, production requirements, and accessories) to the local market at a rate of 20%, with the approval of the head of the zone, and more with the approval of the head of the free zones sector, for six months.
- Extending the deadline for free zone projects to request financial guarantees for six months in all cases.
- Granting free zone projects a six-month period to renew insurance policies on their assets, provided that the legal representative of the project submits an undertaking to bear all criminal and civil responsibilities for any resulting efforts.
- Requiring the administrations of the free zones to take necessary measures to ensure 24/7 access for devices, machines, equipment, and all goods needed to carry out projects' activities.
- Extending the expiration deadlines granted to free zone projects to adjust their conditions for a period of six months.
- Continuing to deal with free zone projects whose licenses to practice activity have expired (exported - imported), provided that they submit a request to renew the licenses period.
- Allowing industrial projects in the free zones to carry out operations for third parties (total or partial) from the free zones and the local market without being bound by the condition that production starts for the benefit of the project itself first, as stipulated in the applicable general principles, for a period of six months.
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Type:
- Promotion and facilitation (Investment facilitation , Special economic zones)
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Industry:
- Not industry specific
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Sources:
- Government, Decree of the General Authority for Investment No. 159 the year 2022, ..., 21 Aug 2022
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UNCTAD has been collecting information on changes in national foreign direct investment (FDI) policies on an annual basis since 1992. This collection has provided input to the analysis of global and regional investment policy trends in the World Investment Report, the Investment Policy Monitors and the UNCTAD-OECD Reports on G20 Measures.
In 2024, to further strengthen the quality of reporting, UNCTAD revised the methodology of monitoring investment policy measures. and revised the measures going back to 2012 accordingly.
The Investment Policy Monitor provides the international investment community with country-specific, up-to-date information about the latest developments in foreign investment policies.
Through its monitoring of investment policy changes, UNCTAD offers cutting-edge and innovative contributions to investment policy discourse, and contributes to preparing the ground for future policymaking in the interest of making foreign investment work for sustainable development.
-
The UNCTAD's Investment Policy Monitor database include official measures affecting FDI adopted by United Nations Member States. These encompass measures explicitly targeting FDI (FDI-specific), as well as general investment measures with a clear impact on foreign investment (FDI-related). The measures are either reported directly to UNCTAD by Member States through annual surveys or identified by UNCTAD researchers through publicly accessible sources (such as government websites and specialized policy databases). The classification of measures as more or less favourable is based solely on their potential impact on investors.
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