1 July 2009
Maputo — The Mozambican government approved on Tuesday new regulations to govern the activities of construction companies, aimed at simplifying the licensing of building activities.
According to Deputy Planning and Development Minister Victor Bernardo, the government decree updates the norms governing construction, bringing them into line with the new Commercial Code, and the new rules on procurement (which were both passed in late 2005).
Bernardo who was briefing reporters on decisions taken at the Tuesday meeting of the Cabinet, said the government has also approved a new set of General Rules for Customs Clearance, replacing those in force since 2002.
Bernardo said that this decree "seeks to facilitate trade, and ensure the speeding up of clearance procedures. It provides businesses with simplified mechanisms to guarantee quick clearance of goods from the customs services to their stores".
Further regulations approved on Tuesday concern the import of telecommunications equipment, adjusting Mozambique's rules to the norms of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
The session also approved two credit agreements signed, on 3 June, with the Islamic Development Bank, one of which is for rural electrification in the northern province of Niassa, and the second for the development of secondary education, budgeted at 10.31 and 15.26 million US dollars respectively.
A third ratified credit agreement was signed on 2 June 2009 with the Arab Bank for the Economic Development of Africa (BADEA), valued at 10 million dollars, for the financing of an irrigation project in the Save valley, in the south of the country.
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