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Parliament approves Importers’ Registry amendments to boost investment

Businessmen Team news 17 February 2026 08:55 PM
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Parliament approves Importers’ Registry amendments to boost investment

Counselor Hani Hanna, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, attended the House of Representatives’ plenary session today, Tuesday, chaired by Counselor Hisham Badawi. The session discussed the joint committee report from the Economic Affairs Committee and the Office of the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee on a government-submitted draft law amending certain provisions of Law No. 121 of 1982 concerning the Importers’ Registry.

During the session, the House approved the principle of amending the Importers’ Registry Law as proposed by the government and began reviewing the individual articles of the law, which were approved in their entirety.

The draft law aims to regulate the country’s import system in line with economic development goals. It allows companies applying for registration in the Importers’ Registry to pay their capital, or the capital recorded in the commercial registry, in foreign currencies. This enables companies with foreign-currency capital to register in the Importers’ Registry. The amendments also introduce legal provisions allowing continued registration in the registry in the event of a change in the company’s legal form or the death of an owner.

The draft law further grants the competent authority at the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade the right to reach settlements with defendants in certain offenses specified under the Importers’ Registry Law.