After 22 years of the enactment of the Foreign Investment law in
1993, as amended in 2009, a new law on strategic sectors and
strategic investments came into picture. The idea was how to make
big investors happy, how to attract them through a scheme of
assistance, rather than provide incentives, as our neighbors are
doing. So, in other words, the law 'On strategic
investments' provides the procedure of application for
obtaining the status 'Strategic investors', which would
give them benefits in the first phase of their investment through
accelerated procedures of issue of licenses and permits and also
through providing additional public assets for their investment
needs. The approval of the status would give to the strategic
investor a) normal assistance and b) special assistance. The
sectors the law selects and defines as 'strategic' are,
more or less, those declared as sectors of priority in the program
of the Government. More specifically, sectors investors can
