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Investment & Legal Framework
THE LEGAL SYSTEM
INVESTMENT
The Legal System in the Sudan in general follows the
Common Law system as most of the countries in the
region with the exception of Egypt.
The legislative institution in the country is the Na-
tional Assembly, which is an elected house of the
representatives of the people.
The Judicial institutions in the country are the Con-
stitutional Court and the Judiciary; The Constitutional
Court is a Supreme Court, independent from the judi-
ciary with a jurisdiction over the constitutional matters
and inter-state conflicts. The Judiciary is an independ-
ent justice organ that regulates and administrates the
courts of justice and the appointments of Judges, their
promotions and other administrative matters. The Ju-
diciary is headed by the Chief Justice who is also the
chief of the High Court.
The Ministry of Justice is the legal advisory body of
the government and the representative of the Com-
monwealth. It is headed by the Minister of Justice
who is also the Attorney General, under him there
are two departments; the Advocate General and the
Prosecutor General.
The Advocacy is widely practiced in the country, it
is regulated in accordance with the Constitution of
the country and the Advocates Act. It is administered
and regulated by the Bar Association.
The government has seriously worked hard to utilize
all available potentialities in Sudan by creating fa-
vorable investment conditions.
The state has taken the following steps:
a.
Procedural reforms were stipulated. For instance:
abrogation of state monopoly of agricultural and in-
dustrial products, the economic services sector and
marketing. The state has also withdrawn from some
public-sector corporations and institutions. Radical
reforms of investment acts and laws regulating all
economic activities have lead to the complete lifting
of any clauses that hinder the private sector’s contri-
bution in investment, thus increase productivity.
A similar economic, trade and financial policies that
run in the same course, and back the new orienta-
tion of the Sudanese economy towards a free mar-
ket economy were also adopted. Examples of these
policies are:
• Lifting of major consumer goods subsidies.
• Freeing of the Sudanese Dinar against the dollar.
Thus, allowing the foreign exchange values of the
dinar to vary freely according to the values of other
international currencies.
• Freeing of prices for all agricultural and industrial
commodities as an impetus for production and pro-
ducers.
• With exception to the following commodities, all
kinds of commodities may be imported. The banned
commodities are: clothes, textiles, ready made
clothes, sauces, slaughtered and live animals,
chichen and eggs, natural leather, sugar, alcoholic
beverages and drugs, fire arms and ammunition
(except with a permit). However , there are plans to
shorten the above list by lifting the import ban from
some of these commodities.
b.
The Government has adopted a national ten-year
work plan (1992-2002) , during which all the possi-
ble potentialities and energies of the nation shall be
mobilized in order to realize the strategy’s desired
aims and goals in accordance with the findings of
a studied futuristic perspective, hence the adopted
programmes turned out to be genuine strategic
break through not merely late reactionary decisions.
This plan is in fact a means of striking a deep root for
the cultural and intellectual resurrection and remo-
bilization of the society and an overall planning that
includes all sectors of the Sudanese society. It has
also been a comprehensive plan for the most ideal
utilization of all sorts of human and natural wealth
in Sudan.
The comprehensive National Strategy was designed
to have sectorial sub-strategies for the ten years of
the plan. The sectors concerned are the following:
• The Social Development Sector.
• The Human Resources Development Sector.
• Culture and Information Sector.
• Sciences and Culture.
• Politics and the Jurisdicitional System.
• Security and Defence.
• Economy.
• Agriculture, Animal Wealth and Natural Resources.
• Cartography maps and underground wealth data.
• Industry, Energy and Mining.
• Transport, Communication, Telecommunication
and Warehousing.
• Foreign Relations.
c.
The government is earnestly endeavouring to find
a radical solution for the southern question in order
to maintain peace in the southern states.