A foreign investment law is created so that there is a free flow of foreign
investment in to the home land. This greatly helps in globalization and also in
bringing the ideas of different nations and different productive business
techniques in the home land.
According to sources from the ministry of economy, The UAE foreign
investment is in its drafting stages and it should be ready by the end of the
year 2008. This will enable the global investors to freely invest in UAE.
To accomplish this task, the federal government has set up a committee. This
committee consists of members of ministries of economy, finance and industry,
and also representatives of over 35 firms including both the public and the
private firm.
It is the vision of the prime minister of the economy, Sheikh Lubna Al
Quasami to make the emirate a favored foreign investment destination. He is
facing problems in the drafting of the law, as the seven countries that
constitute the emirate have different laws relating to ownership and
investments. But at a national investment forum in last December, he expressed
his view of providing a one stop legal reference point for all the investors.
He also spoke about likely measures in the law to regulate foreign direct
investment in to the country.
Aleef Al farra also expressed a common belief saying that although they did
not hope to standardized the law and regulations through out the country, but
still there would be certain common grounds so that the foreign investors could
invest with certainty. The main motive of this law is to provide transparency
and to remove all ambiguities. The reason of ambiguity behind the various laws
of the different nations of the emirates, for example on the northern emirates
you can get land for free which is not the standard practice through out the
UAE.
The aim of foreign investments is not just to have a greater cash flow in to
the country but with greater investments, there is an impetus to growth. These
investments help to rear new ideas and also give a chance for new companies to
come up with innovative products.
Another law that helps the same cause is the UAE competition law. This law
is modeled keeping in mind the anti trust law of the United States and also laws of
other developed countries. This law helps to keep a check on the companies that
create monopolistic trends. These anti completive companies are a great danger
to the economy as they take way the opportunity for the small and the medium
sized companies to prosper. These monopolistic companies also weigh heavy on
the pocket of the consumers. As in the case in the other developed countries,
small and medium sized enterprises will be excluded from the purview of this
law, as these enterprises are not capable of carrying out a monopolistic
business owing to their size.
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