Law No.9/2000 - Regulations of law No.9 -
Bylaw of Establishing companies and setting up branches offices of companies

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Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
The People's Committee General
Implementing Regulations of the law No. 9/2000 Concerning Organizing Transit Goods & Free Zone

Part I
Article No. 1

General Definitions
In the application of provisions of this implementing regulations, the terms below mentioned shall carry the meaning against each one unless the context otherwise indicates.
Law: the law no. 9/2000 concerning organizing transit trades & free zones .
Free zone: a zone free of any restrictions of tax, custom duties and monetary restrictions etc.. which
                    are announced to all those who have the interest to invest therein or to utilize it for
                    achieving the aims of the free zone.
Competent secretary: the secretary of people's committee general of economy and trade.
Transit goods: the goods entering to Libyan Jamahiriya through customs check points to be released
                           outside through other Libyan customs centers.
Transit Enterpriser : any natural or juridical person undertaking or assigning the responsibility of
                                        forwarding transit goods.
Administration: the administration of the free zone.
Investor or utilizer: any natural of juridical person who is licensed to invest in the free zone or utilizes
                                    any facility of its utilities or rendering any service or performing any job or activity
                                     therein.
Investment or utilization: establishing any industrial or commercial or service project or performing
                                               any job or business in the free zone.
Project : plants, offices, warehouses, stores, utilities, sale galleries, equipments, supplies, transport
                 and means of communication and all necessary establishments within the free zone for the
                 purpose of investment or utilization.

Part II
Organizing Free Zones
Article No 2

Free zones are to be established by a decision of the secretary of people's committee general at any part of Libyan Jamahiriya according to a suggestion of the competent secretary stating the following:
- The site of the free zone and its coordinates precisely.
- Purpose of establishing such a zone, stating either to be for industrial , commercial or transit trade
   purposes.
- Entities shall be using the zone.
- Merits to be granted to the zone investors and users.
The people's committees of the Sha-byat may propose establishing such free zones within their scopes and the authorities supervise economic sectors may also propose establishing and administrating free zones for certain purposes, such proposals are to be submitted to the people's committee general for economy and trade including all above mentioned fields attached with the feasibility and technical studies and the committee studies the proposals and makes use of them.

Article No 3

Establishing free zones shall be targeting at transit trade, encouraging various transforming industrial processes that intend to changing the state of goods or adapting them according to requirements of commercial exchange and market demands and also transferring, settling and developing of technology and know-how in an environment free of all restrictions as well as intends rendering ancillary services such as banking, insurance, investment and other services of all types.