DUSHANBE, December 14, Asia-Plus — recently established, the Coordination Council of Association of Entrepreneurs of Tajikistan held a meeting in the office of Business Environment Improvement (BEI) Project in Dushanbe on December 13.
Aziza Mavlonova, partner program coordinator, BEI Project Tajikistan, told Asia-Plus that the meeting had discussed issues related to a meeting of local entrepreneurs with President Emomali Rahmon that is scheduled for December 24.
According to her, the meeting participants decided to introduce a number of motions concerning revision of the country’s legislation regulating entrepreneurial activity in Tajikistan. Among documents requiring improvement are laws on investments, inspection of economic entities, state registration of legal entities, dehqan (peasant) farms, as well as tax and customs codes.
Besides, the council also intends to offer the president to consider the possibility of establishment of private notarial system as well as define preferences of Tajik exports and imports.
They also plan to raise the problem of dehqan farms with the president and determine mechanisms of state support for this sector. They also want to ask to speed up the process of introduction of “one window” mechanism, which provides for simplification of the procedure of registration of legal entities engaged entrepreneurial activity in the country.
We will recall that to combine efforts to improve business environment in the country heads of business associations of Tajikistan have decided to set up integrated union, which would group all local entrepreneurs’ associations and business-supporting and NGOs.
A meeting with participation of representatives of business-supporting associations and NGOs from Dushanbe, Gorno Badakhshan, Khatlon, Rasht Valley and Sughd was held in the office of the USAID Business Environment Improvement (BEI) Project in Dushanbe on December 11. The meeting focused on problems facing entrepreneurship in Tajikistan, in particular those that impede development of private business in the country. It was noted that entrepreneurs practically do not have access to elaboration and adoption of laws aimed at promoting development of entrepreneurship in the country.
