OREANDA-NEWS. January 16, 2007. To debureaucratize and to reduce the term of the rendering of a terminal decision regarding land acquisition, the Decree simplified the general order of the decision-making procedure and introduced a possibility to allocate land and to prepare design documentation for construction at the same time. This will enable investors to considerably reduce projects’ implementation terms, reported the press-centre of Grodnoinvest.

According to the Decree:

the administrations of the free economic zones together with other subjects of legal relations are authorized to complete the procedure of final land allocation if this right has been delegated by corresponding regional (Minsk city) executive committees;

land plots are given to legal bodies of the Republic of Belarus on a permanent or temporary basis, as a private property or on a leasehold basis, and to the legal bodies that are not Belarusian residents – on a leasehold basis;

free economic zones’ residents are given land plots for construction and facility management without holding an auction;

regional (Minsk city) executive committees have got the right to make decisions on payments in instalments for the right to conclude a land lease contract.