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I am a Belgium businessman in food industry manufacturing ( cans, packing...) and I would like to invest in the former-sovietic Republic of Uzbekistan. I would like you to send me a list of related web sites, so that my firm can get detailed information about that sector, the incentive laws on foreign investment, eventual investments grants etc... Index:
General interesting links on Uzbekistan European Union resources Belgium institutions Uzbekistani institutions related to foreign investments Related interesting documents Press, Information Agencies and specialized Reviews Contrary to what we had thought, a wide range of information can be found on Internet concerning foreign investments in Uzbekistan. The needs of economic development in the country's transition towards capitalism, impose to Uzbekistani authorities a certain frame of mind to attract foreign investments. In order to reach this aim, these authorities have developed some official web sites providing with information on all the procedures concerning investments in the country. And , through the Tacis program for co-operation with the Commonwealth of Independent States, the European Union supplies with a web site informing on aids, investments grants, co-operation and economic development projects for Uzbekistan . Also, getting in contact with commercial associations and diplomatic offices ( on Internet) can be very useful for your investments plans. List of links:
Government
of Uzbekistan
The official web
site of the Government of Uzbekistan provides you with information on the
country along with links to the Presidential web site and the different
ministries. It facilitate the access to the UzNet Gateway providing information
on Uzbekistan.
Language: English http://www.gov.uz/ Basic
data on Uzbekistan
The web sites of
the Centre for Economic Research (CER) provides with basic data on Uzbekistan:
population, surface, religion and ethnic composition, weather, main productive
sectors, the government, visa procedures etc...
Language: English http://www.cer.uz/Uzbekistan/uzbekistan-e.html Other
interesting links on Uzbekistan
This web site of
the Centre of Economic Research provides you with a perfect list of links
concerning the country. And besides the information we have selected and that
is directly related to your subject, further interesting data can be found
in this web site.
Language: English http://www.cer.uz/Links/index-e.html The European Union resources Information
Centre on the Tacis Program
This co-operation
program between the European Union and the New Independent States , provides
information on projects carried out by the EU and on grants, technical
and financial support to European companies that wishes to invest in these
countries.
Language: English Contact: 19 rue Montoyer - Montoyerstraat B-1000 Brussels TEFL: (+32 2) 545.90.10 Fax: (+32 2) 545.90.11 E-mail: phare.tacis@dg1a.cec.be Partnership
and Co-operation Agreement between the European Community and
its State members, of one part and the Republic of Uzbekistan , of the
other part.
This agreement
between the Community and the republic of Uzbekistan signed on June
21st, 1996, represents the legal framework for partnership and co-operation
. Chapter II , regarding " Conditions affecting the establishment and operation
of companies" provides interesting information along with article 52 on
"Agriculture and the agro-industrial sector".
Languages: Spanish, Danish, German, Greek, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish. http://www.europa.eu.int/eur-lex/es/lif/dat/1999/es_299A0831_01.htmll Belgian Institutions Belgium
Honorary Consulate in Tashkent
In this web site
you will find information provided by the Belgium diplomatic mission in
Uzbekistan and documents concerning procedures to start carrying out your
projects in the country.
Language: French http://www.diplobel.org/Atlas/atlas_location.asp?lng=FR&Location=TAS Contact: 24 Khurmatley Street Yunus-Abad Region 700084 Tashkent Uzbekistan Phone: (7) (71) 137.56.97 Fax: (7) (71) 137.57.11 The
Federation of Belgian Companies
Web site of the Federation
of Belgian Companies where you can find consultancy and advises on the
conditions imposed by Belgium to its investors abroad. In the archives,
you can consult the weekly info FEB report, starting from September
1998.
Language: French, English, Dutch http://www.vbo-feb.be/ Contact: Federation of Belgian Companies VBO/FEB Ravenstein 4, B-1000 Brussels Phone: (32) (2) 515 08 11 Fax (32) (2) 515 09 99 e-mail: red@vbo-feb.be Uzbekistani institutions concerning foreign investments National
Bank for Foreign Economic Activity
The National Bank
acts as an export/import bank, a commercial bank and a bank for reconstruction
and development. In the latter capacity, one of its partners is the European
Bank for Reconstruction and Development EBRD (http://www.ebrd.com/).
Provides perfect macroeconomic data. Main financed projects are:
Foreign
Investments Agency
Governmental agency
created by presidential decree on the 21st of August 1995 and under the
auspices of the United Nations Development Program. The main objectives
are:
Centre
for Economic Research
The CER was established in January 1998 as a joint project of the Government
of Uzbekistan and the United Nations Development Program. The objectives
of the Centre are to research social and economic processes, prepare proposals
to deepen the economic reforms and technical assistance provided
by international organizations . In April 1997, Resolution NP-982 signed
by President Karimov, legalized institutional framework of the Centre.
Language: English http://www.cer.uz/ Contact: 54, Buyuk Ipak Yuly str., Tashkent, Uzbekistan. TEFL: (+998 71) 670605, 679309, 679313, 670526 Fax: (+998 71) 670564 e-mail: bakhodur@cer.uz Interesting Documents Prava
on-line
This document from
the Centre of Economic Research, provides with current legislative procedures
on foreign investments in Uzbekistan and is related to the following sectors
( last updating April 2000):
Foreign
Investments Incentives according to the Oliy Majlis laws (Parliament) 30th
April 1998
This web site informs
generally on the conditions imposed to foreign investments in Uzbekistan,
fiscal profit and protecting laws.
http://www.gov.uz/fia/Incentives.htmll To access texts on both laws that regulate foreign investments in Uzbekistan ( "On Guarantees and Measures to Protect Foreign Investors Rights" and "On Foreign Investments") visit the following web site: http://www.gov.uz/fia/legal-list.html These are essential documents that must be consulted before you decide to invest in Uzbekistan Language: both in English System
of tax incentives in Uzbekistan
The list provided
by the Foreign Investments Agency facilitates your fiscal profits evaluation
according to your activity sector.
Language: English http://www.gov.uz/fia/taxindex1.htmll Steps
for creating a company with foreign investment
Document provided
by the Foreign Investments Agency explaining the procedures to follow in order to
register a foreign company: enterprises with foreign investments shall
mean enterprises where investments account for at least 30%
of the shares of the charter capital, opening a bank deposit account and
registration in the different ministries ( Justice, Macroeconomics and
Statistics, Foreign Economic Relations...) and registration in Local Tax
Inspection etc.
Language: English http://www.gov.uz/fia/stepcreat2.htmll List
of Investments proposals
The Foreign Investments
Agency's database contents 99 investments proposals of local companies
looking for foreign partners, by the end of November 1999. Those
between the 16th and the 39th concern food products, which can represent
special interest for you in finding partners to carry out your investments.
Language: English http://www.gov.uz/fia/projects/investment.htmll Press, Information Agencies and specialized Reviews Report
of the Radio of Free Europe/Radio Liberty on the first economic growth
in Uzbekistan ( a report by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
Report on the evolution
of economic transition from central planning to free market. Provides with
interesting data: 1996, for example was the first year since independence,
where Uzbekistani economy increased, or that the reduction of GDP has been
less important than in other former sovietic republics.
Language: English http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/1997/04/F.RU.970416155006.htmll Economic
Review
This monthly review
deals with economic and business issues in Uzbekistan. Provides with up-dated
briefings on latest important economic indicators, latest commercial and
fiscal legislations, growing sector ... .
http://www.cer.uz/Review/2000-1/index-e.html Most of the articles are only available in Russian even if you can still find, in these web sites, a reduced english version http://www.cer.uz/Review/2000-1/acrobat/9.pdf http://www.cer.uz/Review/2000-1/acrobat/8.pdf We
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