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Edict of the President of the Republic of Belarus No 458 of August 4, 1999 [Amended As of October 22, 2012] on Creation of Free Edict of the President of the Republic of Belarus No 458 of August 4, 1999 [Amended as of October 22, 2012] On Creation of Free Economic Zone “Vitebsk” With the aim to attract national and foreign investments for organization 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 Zone “Vitebsk” for the period of 30 years of the total area of 2186,1546 ha within the boundaries according to Annex. 2. To establish that: 2.1. The Free Economic Zone “Vitebsk” (hereinafter – the FEZ "Vitebsk") is a complex zone; 2.2. financing of the development of the FEZ "Vitebsk", including industrial, engineering, transport and other infrastructure along with maintenance of the Administration of the FEZ "Vitebsk" and other expenses stipulated by the legislations for ensuring functioning of the zone, is carried out at the account of the means of the republic budget and the development fund of the FEZ "Vitebsk"; 2.3. The development fund of the FEZ "Vitebsk" is formed at the account of rent payments for the land and property, which are in operative administration of the Administration of the FEZ "Vitebsk», as well as from receipts in accordance with the contracts on activity conditions of economic entities in the territory of the zone. Specific sources of forming the development fund of the FEZ "Vitebsk" and directions of spending of its means are 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 month period, the regulations: on the Free Economic Zone "Vitebsk", wherein to reflect the peculiarities of its legal regime, the list, structure, and competence of the management and control bodies of the zone, the methods of their interaction with other state bodies and economic entities operating in this zone; on the Administration of the Free Economic Zone “Vitebsk”; 3.2. resolve, under the established procedure, the issue of transfer into operative administration of the administration of the Free Economic Zone "Vitebsk" of the property being in the republican and communal ownership; 3.3. take other measure for implementation of the provisions of this Edict. 4. The local executive and administrative bodies operating in the territory of the Free Economic Zone "Vitebsk" shall delegate to the Administration of the said zone the powers to seize, under the established procedure, and give into lease to residents of this zone of land plots located within the boundaries of the zone. 5. This Edict enters into force from the day of its publication. President of the Republic of Belarus A. Lukashenko Annex to the Edict of the President of the Republic of Belarus No. 458 of August 4, 1999 1 (as edited by the Edict of the President of the Republic of Belarus No. 481 of October 22, 2012 Boundaries of the Free Economic Zone "Vitebsk" Sector 1 having the area of 872.7 ha, located in the northeast part of the city of Vitebsk, is bounded in the north by the lands of the State Forestry Institution “Vitebsk Forestry Husbandry”, and the Agricultural Production Cooperative “Olgovskoye”; in the east – by the lands of the State Forestry Institution “Vitebsk Forestry Husbandry”, the Transport Republican Unitary Enterprise "Vitebsk Branch of the Belarusian Railway", the Open Joint-Stock Company “Vitebskburbod” and the lands of the city of Vitebsk; in the south – by the lands of the city of Vitebsk; in the west – by the lands of the Agricultural Production Cooperative “Olgovskoye” and the Babinichi Rural Soviet of the Vitebsk district. Sector 2 having the area of 121.501 ha, located in the south part of the industrial area of the city of Vitebsk, is bounded in the north by the lands of the city of Vitebsk (avenue Stroitelei, lands of urban development), of the Garage-Building Consumer Cooperative No. 5 of the Pervomaiskiy district of the city of Vitebsk, in the east – by the lands of the city of Vitebsk , in the south – by the lands of the city of Vitebsk (Voinov-Internatsionalistov Street, lands of urban development), in the west – by the lands of the city of Vitebsk (P. BrovkiStreet, lands of urban development). Sector 3 having the area of 11.96 ha, located in the west part of the industrial district of Vitebsk, includes: the plot No 1 having the area of 10.81 ha is bounded in the north, the east, and the south by the lands of the city of Vitebsk, in the west – by Naberezhnaia Street; the plot No 2 having the area of 1.15 ha is bounded in the north by the lands of the city of Vitebsk, in the east by the lands of the Transport Republican Unitary Enterprise "Vitebsk Branch of the Belarusian Railway", in the south and the west – by the lands of the city of Vitebsk. Sector 4 having the area of 246.9332 ha, located in the east part of the industrial area of the city of Vitebsk, is bounded in the north by Frunze Avenue and the lands of the Transport Republican Unitary Enterprise "Vitebsk Branch of the Belarusian Railway"; in the east – by the lands of the Joint Bounded Liability Company “Marko”, the Science-and-Design Republican Unitary Enterprise “BELTEI”, the lands of the city of Vitebsk and the Vitebsk District; in the south – by the lands of the city of Vitebsk, the lands of citizens and the Transport Republican Unitary Enterprise "Vitebsk Branch of the Belarusian Railway", in the west – by Tereshkova Street. Sector 5 having the area of 139.9208 ha, located in the west part of the industrial area of the city of Vitebsk, includes: the plot No 1 having the area of 128.1522 ha, is bounded in the north by the lands of the city of Vitebsk (M.Gorkiy Street), the Transport Republican Unitary Enterprise "Vitebsk Branch of the Belarusian Railway"; in the east - by the lands of the city of Vitebsk (of common use, under development), the Republican Unitary Enterprise of Telecommunications “Beltelecom”, the Administration of the Pervomaiskiy District of the city of Vitebsk, the Affiliated Communal Unitary Housing Repair-and-Maintenance Enterprise "ZhRETof the Pervomaiskiy District", the Private Industrial Unitary Enterprise "Kvant", the Transport Republican Unitary Enterprise 2 "Vitebsk Branch of the Belarusian Railway"; in the south – by the lands of the city of Vitebsk (of common use); in the west – by the lands of the city of Vitebsk (of common use), the Transport Republican Unitary Enterprise "Vitebsk Branch of the Belarusian Railway"; the plot No 2 having the area of 11.7686 ha, is bounded in the northwest by the lands of the city of Vitebsk (M.Gorkiy Street), the Bounded Liability Company "Science-and- Production Center "Evropribor", the Closed Joint-Stock Company “Sovremennik”, in the northeast – by the lands of the city of Vitebsk, the Open Joint-Stock Company “Belarusian Bank for Development and Reconstruction “Belinvestbank”, the Vitebsk Republican Electroenergetics Unitary Enterprise “Vitebskenergo”, in the southwest – by the river ofZapadnaya Dvina, the lands of the Open Joint-Stock Company “Vitebskoblavtotrans”, in the west – by the lands of the Open Joint-Stock Company “Vitebskoblavtotrans”, Institution “Vitebsk Region Administration of the Ministry on Emergencies of the Republic of Belarus”. Sector 6 having the area of 11.6 ha, located in the northwest part of the city of Postavy, is bounded in the north by the lands of the Postavy District Department on Emergency Situations, in the northeast – by the lands of the city of Postavy, in the east – by the lands of the Unitary Enterpise “Housing and Municipal Economy” of the Postavy district and the Open Joint- Stock Company “Postavymebel”, in the south-east, the south, the south-west, and the west – by the lands of city of Postavy. Sector 7 having the area of 2.5963 ha, located in the north part of the city of Vitebsk, is bounded in the west, the northwest, the north, the northeast, the southeast, and the south by the lands of the city of Vitebsk, in the southwest – by the lands of the Private Trading Unitary Enterprise “WestOptCenter”, the Bounded Liability Company “Factory “Vasilina”. Sector 8 having the area of 50.0481 ha, located in the north part of the city of Vitebsk, is bounded in the north and the northeast by the lands of the city of Vitebsk and the lands of citizens, in the southeast – by the lands of the lands of the Affiliated Municipal Unitary Agricultural Hothouse Enterprise “Zelenhoz” and the lands of the city of Vitebsk, in the south west – by the lands of the city of Vitebsk (Ludnikova Avenue), the Construction Republican Unitary Enterprise “Vitebsk House Building Factory”, the Bounded Liability Company “StroiDomInvest”, the Institution “Pretrial Detention Centre No 2” of the Directorate of Punishment Execution of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus for the Vitebsk Region. Sector 9 having the area of 166.218 ha, located in the city of Orsha, includes: the plot No 1 having the area of 141.8195 ha, located in the northeast part of the city of Orsha, is bounded in the north by the lands of the city of Orsha and the the Garage-Building Cooperative of the Factory PAK, in the southeast – by the lands of the Education Institution “Orsha State Vocational School No 110 for builders”, the Education Institution “Orsha State Medical College” and the lands of the city of Orsha, in the south – by the lands of the city of Orsha (Selitskogo Street and Belinskogo Street) and the lands of the Open Joint-Stock Company “Orshastroimaterialy”, in
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