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Edict of the President of the Republic of Belarus No 93 of March 2, 1998 [Amended As of December 18, 2015] on Creation of Free E Edict of the President of the Republic of Belarus No 93 of March 2, 1998 [Amended as of December 18, 2015] On Creation of Free Economic Zones "Minsk" and "Gomel- Raton" 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" for the period of 30 years and "Gomel-Raton" for the period of 50 years. To establish the total area of the Free Economic Zone "Minsk" equal to 2652.4758 hectares within the boundaries according to Annex 1, and the Free Economic Zone "Gomel-Raton" equal to 7473.8759 hectares within the boundaries according to Annex 2. 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"; 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 "Minsk" and "Gomel-Raton" and directions of their spending shall be determined by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus. 3. The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus shall: 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 "Minsk" and "Gomel-Raton"; 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 "Minsk" and "Gomel-Raton" of the property being in the republican and communal ownership. 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 1 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 "Minsk" and "Gomel-Raton". 6. The State Customs Committee shall, within a two month period from the day of approval of the Regulations on the Free Economic Zones "Minsk" and "Gomel-Raton", establish the procedure for customs clearance of goods delivered to the territories of the said zones, and taken out from their territories. 7. The local executive and administrative bodies operating on the territories of the Free Economic Zones "Minsk" and "Gomel-Raton" shall, in the 1st quarter of 1998, delegate to the administrations of the said zones the powers to seize and give into lease to residents of these zones of land plots located within the boundaries of the zones. 8. This Edict enters into force from the day of its publication. President of the Republic of Belarus A. Lukashenko Annex 1 to Edict of the President of the Republic of Belarus No 93 of March 2, 1998 (as edited by Edict of the President of the Republic of Belarus No. 459 of September 3, 2010) Boundaries of the Free Economic Zone "Minsk" The land plot No. 1 having area of 1110.07 hectares is located in the southeast part of Minsk and includes 4 separate sectors: Sector 1 having the area of 290 hectares is limited in the north by Partizanskiy Avenue, in the east – by the lands of the Transport Republic's Unitary Enterprise "Minsk Branch of the Belarusian Railways", in the south – by the lands of the City of Minsk, and in the west – by the lands of the Republic's Unitary Enterprise of Highways "Minskavtodor-Centre" (Minsk Ringway); Sector 2 having the area of 298 hectares is limited in the north by the lands of the City of Minsk, in the east – by the lands of the Transport Republic's Unitary Enterprise "Minsk Branch of the Belarusian Railways", in the south – by the lands of the Communal Unitary Enterprise on Design, Repairs and Construction of Road “Minskobldorstroi" (motorway Novy Dvor – Matsevichi), in the west – by the lands of the Novy Dvor Rural Soviet of the Minsk District, of the Communal Unitary Agricultural Enterprise "State Farm-Agrarian Company 'Rassvet' and the lands of the City of Minsk; Sector 3 having the area of 415.7 hectares is limited in the northeast by the lands of the City of Minsk and the Communal Unitary Agricultural Enterprise "State Farm-Agrarian Company 'Rassvet', in the southeast – by the lands of the Communal Unitary Agricultural Enterprise "State Farm-Agrarian Company 'Rassvet' and the lands of the Novy Dvor Rural Soviet (village of Korolishchevichi) of the Minsk District, in the southwest – by the lands of the State Industrial 2 Amalgamation “Gorremavtodor Mingorispolkoma” and the Communal Unitary Enterprise on Design, Repairs and Construction of Roads “Minskobldorstroi", in the west – by the lands of the Transport Republic's Unitary Enterprise "Minsk Branch of the Belarusian Railways" and the lands of the City of Minsk; Sector 4 having the area of 7.37 hectares is limited in the northeast by the lands of the Novy Dvor Rural Soviet (village of Yelnitsa) of the Minsk District, in the southeast, the southwest and the west – by the lands of the Communal Unitary Agricultural Enterprise "State Farm-Agrarian Company 'Rassvet', in the northwest – by the lands of the Communal Unitary Agricultural Enterprise "State Farm-Agrarian Company 'Rassvet'" and the Production Communal Affiliated Unitary Enterprise “Minsk Forest and Park Husbandry”. The land plot No. 2 having total area of 257.33 hectares includes 4 isolated sectors: Sector 1 having the area of 73.37 hectares is limited in the northeast by the lands of the Republic's Unitary Enterprise "Minsk Tractor Works" (auxiliary farm), in the southeast – by the lands of the the Communal Unitary Enterprise on Design, Repairs and Construction of Roads “Minskobldorstroi", in the southwest – by the lands of the Republic's Unitary Enterprise of Highways "Minskavtodor-Centre" (motorway Minsk – Mogilev (hereinafter – motorway M-4), the Republic's Unitary Enterprise "Minsk Tractor Works" (auxiliary farm), in the northwest – by the lands of the Production Communal Affiliated Unitary Enterprise "Minsk Forest and Park Husbandry"; Sector 2 having the area of 122.64 hectares is limited in the northeast, the east, and the southeast by the lands of the Republic's Unitary Enterprise of Highways "Minskavtodor-Centre" (motorway M-4, road interchange of the motorways M-4 and Brest (Kozlovichi)–Minsk– the border of the Russian Federation Redki) (hereinafter – motorway M-1/E 30), in the southwest – by the lands of the Production Communal Affiliated Unitary Enterprise "Minsk Forest and Park Husbandry", in the west and the northwest – by the lands of the Trade and Production Republic's Unitary Enterprise "DORORS" of the Belarusian Railways Sector 3 having the area of 54.17 hectares is limited in the north by the lands of the Republic's Unitary Enterprise of Highways "Minskavtodor-Centre" (motorway M-1/E 30, road interchange of the motorways M-4 and M-1/E 30), in the southeast – by the lands ofLugovoslobodskogo Rural Soviet (Privolnyi) of the Minsk District, the State Institution “Byelorussian Machine Testing Station”, the Minsk District Unitary Agricultural Enterprise “State Farm 'Volma’” and the Construction Unitary Enterprise “TRADIKO” of PonomarevS.G., in the south west – by the lands of Production Communal Unitary Enterprise "ZhKCh of the Minsk District" and the Production Communal Affiliated Unitary Enterprise "Minsk Forest and Park Husbandry", in the west – by the lands of the Minsk District Unitary Agricultural Enterprise “State Farm 'Volma’”, in the northwest – by the lands of the the Communal Unitary Enterprise on Design, Repairs and Construction of Roads “Minskobldorstroi"; Sector 4 having the area of 7.15 hectares is limited in the northeast by the lands of the Trade and Production Republic's Unitary Enterprise "DORORS" of the Belarusian Railways, in the southeast, the south and the southwest – by the lands of the Republic's Unitary Enterprise of Highways "Minskavtodor-Centre" (motorway M-1/E 30, road interchange of the motorways M- 4 and M-1/E 30), in the northwest – by the lands of the Communal Unitary Enterprise on Design, Repairs and Construction of Roads “Minskobldorstroi". 3 The land plot No. 3 having the area of 41.12 hectares is located in the vicinity of the settlement of "Sosny" and is limited in the north, the east, the south, and the west by the lands of the Production Communal Affiliated Unitary Enterprise "Minsk Forest and Park Husbandry".
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