(Unofficial
translation)
Edict of the
President of the Republic of Belarus
No 93 of March 2, 1998
[Amended as of August 22, 2018]
On Creation of Free Economic Zones "
With the aim to attract national and foreign investments for creation and
development of production facilities based on new and high technologies, to
ensure favourable conditions for economic development of the regions of the
Republic, I decree:
1. To create the Free Economic Zones "Minsk" and
"Gomel-Raton" for the term until December 31, 2049.
To establish the total area of the Free Economic Zone "Minsk"
equal to 2791.4458 hectares within the boundaries according to Annex 1[translation not provided], and the Free Economic Zone "Gomel-Raton"
equal to 4064.4125 hectares within the boundaries according to Annex 2 [translation not provided].
2. To
establish that:
2.1. the Free Economic Zones "Minsk" and
"Gomel-Raton" shall be complex zones;
2.2. financing of the development of the Free Economic
Zones "Minsk" and "Gomel-Raton", including industrial,
engineering, transport and other infrastructure along with maintenance of the
administrations of the Free Economic Zones
"Minsk" and "Gomel-Raton" and other expenses
stipulated by the legislations for ensuring functioning of the said zones, is
carried out at the account of the means of the republic budget and development
funds of the Free Economic Zones "Minsk" and "Gomel-Raton",
other sources not prohibited by the legislation;
2.3. development funds of the Free Economic Zones
"Minsk" and "Gomel-Raton" shall be formed at the account of
rent payments for the land and property which are in operative administration
of the administrations of the said zones, as well as at the account of revenues
in accordance with the contracts on activity conditions of economic entities in
the territories of the zones.
Specific sources of forming the development funds of the Free Economic
Zones "
3. The
Council of Ministers of the
3.1. approve, within a two months' period, the following
regulations:
on the Free Economic Zones "Minsk" and "Gomel-Raton",
wherein to reflect the peculiarities of their legal regime, the list,
structure, and competence of the management and control bodies of the zones,
the methods of their interaction with other state bodies and the economic
entities operating in these zones;
On
administrations of the Free Economic Zones "
3.2. resolve, under the established procedure, the issue of
transfer, in the first half of 1998, into operative administration of the
administrations of the Free Economic Zones "
4. The National Bank, jointly with the Ministry of Finance and
upon agreement with the administrations of the Free Economic Zones
"Minsk" and "Gomel-Raton", shall, within a three month
period, prepare and submit, under the established procedure, into the Council
of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus the procedure of granting to foreign
investors of financial guarantees for repatriation of the incomes obtained in
the territories of the mentioned zones, and the procedure for performance of
currency operations in these territories.
5. The Ministry of Finance, in the 1st quarter of 1998, shall
determine the mechanism of formation of the budgets of the Free Economic Zones
"
6. The State Customs Committee shall, within a two month
period from the day of approval of the Regulations on the Free Economic Zones
"
7. The local executive and administrative bodies operating on
the territories of the Free Economic Zones "
8. This
Edict enters into force from the day of its publication.
|
President of the |
A. Lukashenko |