The State Supports Affected Industrialists in Tangier, Nador, and Oujda
2 December 2008
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Temporary admissions of goods, loss of accounting documents, delays in payments of bank loans and CNSS contributions; the government has decided to take action in favor of industrialists in Tangier, Nador, and Oujda affected by the bad weather.
Concerning the industrialists of Tangier, Nador, and Oujda affected by the storms, the government has decided to take action. The problem of temporary admissions (AT) will thus be resolved in consultation with the customs authorities. For operators in the northern industrial zones, particularly those of Tangier, M’ghougha, and Al-Majd, customs will reserve "special" treatment for products under AT damaged by last week's floods. The temporary admission system allows for the temporary importation, with total or partial exemption from customs duties and taxes, of goods.
The government also undertakes to intervene with banks to delay the payment of deadlines for certain companies. Indeed, operators affected by the bad weather need guarantees from banks while awaiting a resumption of their activity. Regarding the loss of accounting and tax documents of flooded companies, the government announces that this problem will be addressed by consulting the archives of tax files with the supervisory authorities.
Another measure towards the industrialists of M’ghougha and Al-Majd and other zones in the northern region of the country concerns the National Social Security Fund (CNSS). The government will intervene to delay payments of contributions due to the CNSS. The two industrial zones of M’ghougha and Al-Majd have 150 companies that employ more than 70,000 workers. At the beginning of this week, the restoration work undertaken allowed the restoration of electricity supply to the two industrial zones. The internal transformers of the factories are mostly out of service. Thus, substantial aid of one million dirhams was granted by the local authorities to the affected companies for the repair of the damaged internal transformers.
On a visit to the site on Monday, October 27, Ahmed Reda Chami, Minister of Industry, Trade, and New Technologies, followed the work undertaken to restore off-site infrastructure and repair equipment and machinery inside the factories.
The managers of these two industrial zones were not yet able to quantify the heavy losses caused by the floods. An exceptional level of rainfall was recorded on Thursday, October 23, in Tangier with 176 mm in less than 6 hours. A phenomenon that had not occurred in more than 20 years. This unprecedented rainfall level caused all the city's wadis to overflow for several hours, according to Amendis officials. Thus, the industrial zone of Tangier was completely flooded, submerged by more than a meter of water. In fact, 270 electrical distribution posts were put out of service, thus depriving several neighborhoods of the city of electricity. The flooding of the posts led to the tripping of 14 Medium Voltage power lines, the cutting of 120 Amendis posts and 150 customer posts in the M’ghougha and Al-Majd industrial zones as well as in the Route de Tétouan, Corniche, Benkirane, Souria, Souani, and Casabarata neighborhoods. Atika Haimoud
Posted online on Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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Concerning the industrialists of Tangier, Nador, and Oujda affected by the storms, the government has decided to take action. The problem of temporary admissions (AT) will thus be resolved in consultation with the customs authorities. For operators in the northern industrial zones, particularly those of Tangier, M’ghougha, and Al-Majd, customs will reserve "special" treatment for products under AT damaged by last week's floods. The temporary admission system allows for the temporary importation, with total or partial exemption from customs duties and taxes, of goods.
The government also undertakes to intervene with banks to delay the payment of deadlines for certain companies. Indeed, operators affected by the bad weather need guarantees from banks while awaiting a resumption of their activity. Regarding the loss of accounting and tax documents of flooded companies, the government announces that this problem will be addressed by consulting the archives of tax files with the supervisory authorities.
Another measure towards the industrialists of M’ghougha and Al-Majd and other zones in the northern region of the country concerns the National Social Security Fund (CNSS). The government will intervene to delay payments of contributions due to the CNSS. The two industrial zones of M’ghougha and Al-Majd have 150 companies that employ more than 70,000 workers. At the beginning of this week, the restoration work undertaken allowed the restoration of electricity supply to the two industrial zones. The internal transformers of the factories are mostly out of service. Thus, substantial aid of one million dirhams was granted by the local authorities to the affected companies for the repair of the damaged internal transformers.
On a visit to the site on Monday, October 27, Ahmed Reda Chami, Minister of Industry, Trade, and New Technologies, followed the work undertaken to restore off-site infrastructure and repair equipment and machinery inside the factories.
The managers of these two industrial zones were not yet able to quantify the heavy losses caused by the floods. An exceptional level of rainfall was recorded on Thursday, October 23, in Tangier with 176 mm in less than 6 hours. A phenomenon that had not occurred in more than 20 years. This unprecedented rainfall level caused all the city's wadis to overflow for several hours, according to Amendis officials. Thus, the industrial zone of Tangier was completely flooded, submerged by more than a meter of water. In fact, 270 electrical distribution posts were put out of service, thus depriving several neighborhoods of the city of electricity. The flooding of the posts led to the tripping of 14 Medium Voltage power lines, the cutting of 120 Amendis posts and 150 customer posts in the M’ghougha and Al-Majd industrial zones as well as in the Route de Tétouan, Corniche, Benkirane, Souria, Souani, and Casabarata neighborhoods. Atika Haimoud
Posted online on Tuesday, November 4, 2008
infosdumaroc.com
