Law No. (9) of 2010 on Encouraging Investment
The framework law for national and foreign investment: definitions, guarantees, benefits, exemptions, obligations and the powers of the investment authority.
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Investment & privatization legislation
The English text of the Libyan investment and privatization legislation, as published in the Investment & Privatization Legislation Handbook of the Public Authority for Investment Promotion and Privatization Affairs.
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Contents of the handbook
- Law No. (9) of 2010 on encouraging investment — read
- The executive regulations of Law No. (9) of 2010 regarding the promotion of investment — read
- Resolution No. (118) of 2007 issuing a regulation for the ownership of public companies — read
- Resolution No. (194) of 2009 establishing some provisions in the matter of real estate investment — read
- Investment promotion law, in English and in French (published as separate texts by the authority)
Executive Regulations of Law No. (9) of 2010
The procedures that implement the law: registration of applications, approval decisions, licences, land allocation, guarantees, penalties and dispute settlement.
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Resolution No. (118) of 2007 on the Ownership of Public Companies
Rules and procedures for transferring the ownership of public companies and economic units to the private sector, including valuation and offering methods.
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Resolution No. (194) of 2009 on Real Estate Investment
Provisions determining how land may be used for real-estate investment: permitted purposes, eligible entities and conditions of use.
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- Law No. (9) of 2010 on Encouraging Investment 22 pages · 1.3 MB
- Executive Regulations of Law No. (9) of 2010 32 pages · 2.2 MB
- Resolution No. (118) of 2007 on the Ownership of Public Companies 16 pages · 1.1 MB
- Resolution No. (194) of 2009 on Real Estate Investment 8 pages · 0.4 MB
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How this text was prepared
The handbook is a scanned publication of the Public Authority for Investment Promotion and Privatization Affairs. The pages published on this site are a text transcription prepared to make the legislation searchable and readable on screen; the article structure (Article 1, Article 2, …) follows the numbering printed in the handbook.
- Authoritative version: the scanned PDF of each document (see Downloads) is the reference text. Where wording matters, rely on the scanned pages.
- Transcription limits: because the source is a scan of a translated document, the transcription may contain residual typographical artefacts. Section headings were preserved as printed.
- Defects in the source scan: the scanned handbook repeats one page inside Resolution No. (118) of 2007, and the opening words of Article (1) of Resolution No. (194) of 2009 are missing from the scan as a result. The transcription reproduces what the scan contains.
- Chronology note (as printed in the handbook): when dealing with the law and the regulation, the provisions of the issued constitutional declaration — concerning the Interim National Transitional Council, Article 35 — are to be taken into account.
Source document: Investment & Privatization Legislation Handbook, Public Authority for Investment Promotion and Privatization Affairs (Libya). The handbook's regional contact details are on the last page of the PDF.