The Board of Directors of the Public Authority for Special Economic Zones and Free Zones (OPAZ) held its first meeting of the year 2023 at the Authority’s headquarters in Muscat on Tuesday. It wa chaired by Dr Ali bin Masoud al-Sunaidy, Chairman of the Board.
During its meeting, the Board approved the allocation of industrial lands in Duqm Special Economic Zone to the Public Establishment for Industrial Estates (Madayn).
The Board also reviewed the proposed amendments project of the bylaw of Urban Planning and Building Permits, to facilitate investment and ensure the consistency of the overall appearance of existing buildings with the development of this regulation to be applied in new economic zones, free zones and various industrial zones. The Board also discussed the controls, rules and registration of engineering consultancy offices and their classification in SEZAD, to be applied to the rest of the special economic zones, free and industrial zones in the future.
The Board of Directors also approved a mechanism for signing usufruct contract agreements with government entities in the Special Economic Zone at Duqm and unifying the usufruct fees for commercial lands allocated for petrol station projects and their annexes located in the Special Economic Zone at Duqm for a period of five years to come, so that all contracts are evaluated during this period.
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