Andorra is taking steps to open its economy to foreign investment, with government proposals for legislation that will allow foreigners to control companies in certain business sectors.
According to the local Diari d’Andorra newspaper, government spokesman, Juli Minove announced that the legislation would be introduced very shortly, and would allow foreign capital to control new local enterprises in sectors that are not currently served by existing Andorran businesses.
While Minoves did not go into detail about the legislation or the areas of commercial activity that will be opened to foreign control, it is thought that companies in export related areas, particularly in technology and IT markets, will be among those to qualify under the new regime.
There has been talk for many years within Andorra of weakening the local ownership rules, which effectively limit Andorra's international business sector to small-scale operations which can tolerate a degree of legal uncertainty.
Draft legislation was published in March, 2004 which proposed to allow 100% foreign ownership in certain sectors, including audio-visual production and marketing, technological and scientific research, production of medicines, e-commerce, and broadcasting.
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