17 April 2008
Maputo — Mozambican Industry and Trade Minister Antonio Fernando met in Maputo on Wednesday with cooperation partners to seek ideas on the best way to improve the business environment in the country.
Fernando said that though improvements were recorded in this area in 2007 if compared with the previous year, the government has been working with national and foreign private sectors to attract more investments.
He said that the meeting is expected to produce ideas on how to render more flexible the implementation of the Business Environment Strategy, particularly concerning deadlines, tasks and obligations between the involved parties.
'We can state the example of the simplified licensing. It is possible today to get a business license in a single day, being enough to go to a one stop counter, fill up the forms and produce the Identity Document and the Single Tax Identification Number (NUIT)', explained Fernando.
'It is possible to issue 200 licenses for small and medium-sized companies in a single day. This is an action aiming at formalizing the informals', he said, adding that the decree that regulates the Simplified Licensing should be published late this month.
Among the areas where the government needs more assistance by cooperation partners and the private sector are the Business Environment Strategy, Simplified Licensing, Inspection, the functioning of the National Trade Directorate, the Promotion of National Products, Industrial property, and rural industrialization.
Some of the partners also pointed out staff training and work equipments as some other areas that need improving.
Recommendations from this one-day meeting should help give a follow up in actions such as divulgation, among the business community and the public at large, of the Business Environment Strategy, and finalizing the 'Made in Mozambique' strategy.
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