Luanda 10/22/08 – Angolan President, José Eduardo dos Santos, on Tuesday created, through a dispatch, a working team for the restructuring of the National Private Investment Agency (ANIP), with view to boost its services and guarantee the correct integration of private investment in the national sustained development strategy.
According to a press release of the Services of Assistance to the President of the Republic, the working team is being co-ordinated by Aguinaldo Jaime and comprises the Head of State’s economic advisors and of parliamentary issues, Archer Mangueira and Francisco Queiroz, respectively.
The commission also comprises the prime minister’s economic advisor, António Furtado, general inspector of the Interior Ministry, Eduardo Sambo, and the consultant of the minister of Planning, Alves da Rocha, as well as the representative of ANIP, Oliveira Balombo.
Among the duties, the set up team should propose the reformulation of the legislation and rules regulating the private investment, as well as review fiscal, currency and customs incentives to be granted to the private investment.
It is also in charge of proposing efficient means of following up and assessing the results obtained by the private investment and its connection with the incentives granted.
The commission should equally reflect on the problem of granting visas, in the light of the approved private investment processes, and review the ANIP status, including its competences, organic and methodological dependence, as well as its connection with State administration organs that intervene in the investment problem.
According to the presidential dispatch, the working team might appeal for the timely collaboration of other State administration organs and of the National Reserve Bank (BNA) and should, within ninety days, conclude its discussions and submit them to the head of the government.