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Democratic Republic of Congo National Agency for
Investments Promotion ANAPI
Invest in DRC Country of potentialities
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I. RDC A large country at the heart of Africa.
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• 1.1. Geographic position
• - DRC is located at the centre of Africa.
• - It is a country of 2,345,000 Km².
• - It shares 9,165 Km² of border with nine
  neighbouring
• countries. It is limited by 
• In the North - Central African Republic
• - The Sudan
• In the South - Zambia
• - Angola
• In the East - Uganda
• - Ruanda
• - Burundi
• - Tanzania
• In the West - Cabinda
• - Republic of Congo
• - Opening on the ocean
  International trade.

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• 1.2. Population
• DRC is one of the African biggest markets
  with its 60 millions of inhabitants, thus,
  consumers.
• 1.3. Hydrography
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• The Congo river possesses the most regular
  and powerful flow in the world (40.000
  m3/second) after Amazon.

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II. DRC Land of potentialities

• Large area appropriate to agriculture and mining.
  
• 2.1. Mining potentialities.
• DRC mining sector offers a very large range
  of ore and many possibilities of exploitation
  such as 

- Bauxite Bas-Congo - Coal
Katanga - Colombo Tantalite (Coltan) Kivu,
Katanga
Maniema - Diamond Both Kasaï,
Bandundu, Equateur,
Eastern Province - Copper Katanga -
Cobalt Katanga - Tin Maniema, Kivu
- Iron Western Kasaï, Katanga
Eastern Province - Methane gas  Kivu Lake -
Gold Eastern Province, Kivu,
Maniema, Katanga, Bas-Congo - Oil
Bas-Congo, Bandundu,
Equateur, Eastern Province - Asphaltic
schists  Bas-Congo - Manganese 
Katanga
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• 2.2. Agricultural potentialities.
• Over 7 millions Ha of arable land, fertile and
  favorable to biological agriculture.
• Opportunities of various cultures throughout the
  year.
• 2.3. Forest potentialities
• The congolese land represents over 45 of the
  african forest.
• Exploitation possibility of 6 millions m3 of
  timber and of wood local processing before
  exporting.
• Species highly valued (Afromosia, Ebene, Wenge,
  Iroko, Sapelli, Sipo, Tiama, Tola, Kambala,
  Lifaki, etc).

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• 2.4. Energetic potentialities.
• Congo river  - the most regular and powerful
  flow in the world (40.000 m3/s).
• Its energetic potentialities are estimated
  around 100.000 Mw/h of which 44 are
  concentrated at INGA.
• - DRC can supply all Africa with electricity
  with its energetic potentialities !

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III. DRC Country with various
investments opportunities
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• 3.1. Mines and hydrocarbons.
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• Rehabilitation of copper mines (Tenke Fungurume,
  SODIMICO and Gécamines), of cassiterite (Kivu)
  and gold (Kilo-Moto).
• Exploitation of diamond mines (Both Kasaï,
  Bandundu and Eastern Province), of coltan (Kivu
  and Maniema), of coal (Luena and Lukunga), of
  iron (Banalia and Luebo).
• Rehabilitation of Moanda Refinery in the coastal
  Basin of Bas-Congo.
• Production of road asphalt (Bas-Congo and Eastern
  Province).
• Prospecting in the Central Basin.
• Geological search in the coastal basin
  (Bas-Congo).
• Exploitation of deposits at Ituri in Eastern
  Province.
• Infrastructures of transport and distribution of
  oil products in urban centres.

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• 3.2. Agriculture, forest and
• hydrography
• Farming throughout the year.
• Resumption of exploitation
• of palm-oil (Bandundu and
• Equateur).
• Production and transportation
• of (Equateur, Eastern Province,
• Both Kasaï, Bandundu, Mayombe).
• Industrial processing of timber
• (Kinshasa, Kisangani, Kananga).
• Exploitation of hevea (Equateur, Bandundu and
  Bas-Congo).
• Drug production (quinquina in Kivu).
• Production of paper (Kinshasa).
• Cattle farming (Katanga, Kivu, Eastern Province,
  Bas-Congo).
• Pigs and poultry.
• Milk production (Katanga, Kivu, Eastern Province,
  Bas-Congo).

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• 3.3. Industry
• Manufacturing Industries (production of
  foodstuffs, tobacco factory, textile and leather
  factory, timber and paper factory, chemical and
  chemicals production industry, of oil and coal
  by-products, of rubber and plastic materials,
  manufacturing of building materials and cement
  factories).
• Basic metallurgic industry (iron and steel
  industry, production and processing of
  non-ferrous metals, metallic products
  manufacturing, electrical machines and supplies
  manufacturing, vehicle production).
• 3.4. Banking
• Setting up banks throughout the country.
• Insurance exploitation.

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3.5. Tourism   Extraordinary wealth of
congolese fauna and flora ! Several parks
and natural reserves protected Virunga,
Salonga, Kahuzi Biega, Maïko, Kundelungu.
- Hotelry expansion in many urban centres. -
Management of touristic sites. - Modernization
of national parks.
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• 3.6. Electricity and drinking water
• Extension and rehabilitation of Inga (Inga II et
  Inga III), shifting from 120 to 1.200 megawatts.
• Building of Hydroelectric Power station of
  Katende (Kananga) and reinforcing that of Tshiala
  (Mbuji-Mayi).
• Rehabilitation and construction of electrical
  high tension lines 
• - Rehabilitation of Inga Katanga line
• - Construction of Inga-Angola-Namibia-
  RSA line
• - Construction of Inga-Egypt line
• - Connecting an electric line at Tshimbulu
• (both Kasaï).
• Improvement of drinking water networks throughout
  the country.
• Supplying with intrants.
• Building pipe-lines. 
• - Congo Desertic zones project
• - Congo Middle East project.

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• 3.7. Infrastructures
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• Construction and/or rehabilitation of the main
  national roads, road interconnection of the North
  (Ituri) with the south of DRC (Kalemie).
• Construction of roads for interconnection of the
  sub-region of Central Africa, Eastern Africa
  (COMESA) and Southern Africa (SADC).
• Maintenance of secondary roads.
• Rehabilitation of the existing railway network 
  Ubundu-Kisangani, railway of Uélé,
  Kinshasa-Matadi.
• Construction of railway Ilebo - Kinshasa.
• Rehabilitation of ferry-boats  Kindu, Kisangani,
  Ubundu.
• Dredging the Congo river bed.
• Beaconing of navigable levels.

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• 3.8. Transportation and harbours
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• Rehabilitation and building of Ndjili airport.
• Rehabilitation of Lubumbashi airport.
• Creation of transport companies in Kinshasa and
  in major chief-towns of provinces.
• Construction of a railway Matadi-Banana
  (Bas-Congo).
• Improving the navigability of main streams by the
  dredging and beaconing system.
• Construction of sea harbour in Banana
  (Bas-Congo).
• 3.9. Telecommunications
• Setting up a short wave transmitter covering the
  whole country.
• Rehabilitation of O.C.P.T. cable network.
• Expansion of the cable network of fixed telephone
  all over the national area.

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• 3.10. Buildings, public works and housing
• Construction, rehabilitation and equipment basic
  infrastructures (schools, hospitals, buildings),
  administrative buildings and commercial blocks.
• Rehabilitation of the Congolese International
  Trade Centre building with 22 floors.
• Construction of houses at reduced rent in
  different urban centres (Kinshasa, Matadi,
  Bandundu, Kananga, Mbuji-Mayi, Mbandaka,
  Kisangani, Goma, Bukavu).

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Top 10 Ten main projects for ANAPI
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• 1. Rehabilitation and Modernization of the
  hydroelectric dam of Inga.
• 2. Rehabilitation and Modernization of Ndjili
  Airport.
• 3. Rehabilitation of Matadi Harbour.
• 4. Building of houses at reduced rates in
  Kinshasa and in all chief-towns of provinces.
• 5. Building of the hydroelectric Power station
  of Katende (Kananga)
• and reinforcing Tshiala (Mbuji-Mayi) Power
  station.
• 6. Rehabilitation of Iron and steel Industry of
  Maluku.
• 7. Relaunch of GECAMINES activities.
• 8. Creation of big public transportation
  companies in Kinshasa
• and in Provinces chief-towns.
• 9. Creation of forest companies for timber
  production.
• 10. Relaunch of export agricultural productions
  cotton, coffee, hevea tea and cocoa.

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IV. Expanding economy
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• Following the poor performance registered
  for a long period, the congolese economy
  undertook to develop since the coming of
  General-Major Joseph KABILA into power.
•   At the basis of this phenomenon 
• The option of free market economy decided by the
  Government.
•   Liberalization of economy, partnership
  public sector private sector.
• Important measures taken by the Government 
•   - Liberalization of mining sector
• - Liberalization of oil sector
• - Resumption of cooperation with
  international financial institutions
• - Adoption of the floating exchange rate
• - Reduction of the domestic tax rate.

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• Promulgation of new laws 
•   - Investments Code
• - Mining Code
• - Forest Code
• - Labour Laws
• Objectives protection private property,
  promptness, facilitation, security.
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• Institution of other mechanisms of business
  security 
• - Commerce court
• - Labour court
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• Consequence  - Stability of macro-economic
  parameters
• - Mastery of inflation.

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Evolution of congolese economy Some indicators
of the congolese economy.
Central Bank of Congo, 2003
Average monthly rate inflation in 2003
Central Bank of Congo, 2003
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Evolution of the production volume from 1999 to
2003
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Evolution ot the production volume (continued)
Central Bank of Congo, 2003
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V. Legal status of more incentive
investments
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• Law n004/2002 of February 21, 2004
  concerning Investments Code.
• Innovations of the new Code 
• Setting up of Unique Regime.
• Equal treatment between all investors, national
  and foreign.
• Simplification and acceleration of approval
  procedures.
• Introduction of the notion of direct foreign
  investment for every acquisition of interest in
  the capital of an enterprise of at least 10 by
  foreigners.
• Creation of the National Agency for the Promotion
  of Investments (ANAPI). (Art. 4 of Investment
  Code and Presidential Decree n065/2002 of June
  05, 2002).
• Introduction of follow-up and assessment
  mechanisms of approved investments.
• Guarantees to investors.

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VI. ANAPI At the service of
investors.
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•  6.1. Missions
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• As a State organism endowed with legal
  status, ANAPI, has received four important
  missions, namely 
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• 1. To promote private, public and semi-public
  investments in the country as well as abroad 
• 2. To approve investment projects at the unique
  regime of Investments Code 
• 3. To ensure the tax single-post in investment
  domain, especially by helping investors for the
  implementation of their projects 
• 4. To plan strategies to eradicate all hindrances
  or barriers to investors.

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• 6.2. Services offered to investors
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• Welcoming and accompanying investors in all steps
  of investment in DRC 
• Organization for obtaining in a very short time
  the required documents and authorizations for the
  start of their activities 
• Facilitating contact with authorities and local
  partners 
• Support in the search of funds and/or
  partnerships 
• Helping investors in the event of dispute with
  the public administration as regards investment 
• Keep at permanent disposal all information
  related to economy, commerce and others on
  different sectors of national activities.

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VII. Investments security
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• Investments realized in DRC are guaranteed
  and protected by various mechanisms 
• The constitution stipulates in its article 36
  that the state encourages and looks after the
  security of national and foreign investments 
• Investments Code 
•   - Equal treatment among all national and
  foreign investors.
• Therefore, there is no
  discrimination.
• - Full exercise of property right and other
  acknowledged rights 
• -  Freedom of transferring abroad generated
  dividends and incomes
• royalties, principal, benefits and related
  charges 
• - Exclusion of nationalization and
  expropriation, except for public utility
• reasons and provided that there is payment
  of good and equal
• compensatory allowance. 

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• - No withdrawal of guarantees and granted
  advantages by further provision  
• -   Disputes settlement by arbitration according
  to the procedure of the code of civil procedure
  or referring to CIRDI convention, or friendly by
  negotiations.
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• DRCs adherence to MIGA.
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• Institutional security
• Following a stormy period of war, time has
  come for concord and national reconstruction.
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• Promulgation of the Transition Constitution
  resulting from national consensus,
• Intercongolese Dialogue which led to Inclusive
  and Global Agreement ,
• Setting up new institutions (of Transition)
  including the representatives of all components
  and entities to Intercongolese Dialogue.

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ASSESSMENT OF APPROVAL ACTIVITIES Table n1
INVESTMENT PROJECTS APPROVED BY ANAPI Exercise
2003 IMPORTANCE BY SECTOR
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Table n2 INVESTMENT PROJECTS APPROVED BY
ANAPI Exercise 2003 IMPORTANCE ACCORDING TO
NATIONALITY
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Table n3 INVESTMENT PROJECTS APPROVED BY
ANAPI Exercise 2003 IMPORTANCE ACCORDING TO
LOCATION
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Tableau n4 INVESTMENT PROJECTS APPROVED BY
ANAPI Exercise 2003 IMPORTANCE IN TERMS OF
PROJECTS NUMBER
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Table n1 INVESTMENT PROJECTS APPROVED BY
ANAPI Ist Quarter 2004 IMPORTANCE BY SECTOR
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Table n2 INVESTMENT PROJECTS APPROVED BY
ANAPI Ist Quarter 2004 IMPORTANCE ACCORDING TO
NATIONALITY
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Table n3 INVESTMENT PROJECTS APPROVED BY
ANAPI Ist Quarter 2004 IMPORTANCE REFERRING TO
LOCATION
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Table n4 INVESTMENT PROJECTS APPROVED BY
ANAPI Ist Quarter 2004 IMPORTANCE IN TERMS OF
PROJECTS NUMBER
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• CRITERIA FOR PERCEIVING INVESTMENT CLIMATE
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• A  Very unfavourable C  Acceptable
  E  Very favourable
• B  Unfavourable D 
  Favourable F  No opinion
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  A B C
  D E F
• Political situation
• Economic situation
• Governments attitude to
• attract foreign investors
• Accessibility of market and
• distribution market
• Possibility of connection to
• a source of energy
• Operational costs
• Incentive system
• Telecommunications infrastructures
• System of profit taxation and

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