Midkhat Shagiakhmetov took part in the interregional forum on the introduction of a new investment standard

The participants discussed the new investment project support system and its impact on the business climate.

More than 300 participants from 45 regions of the country, including the Republic of Tatarstan, gathered in the Moscow Region to exchange best practices for attracting businesses and creating a comfortable investment climate. The President of Russia instructed to create a modern system for supporting investment projects.

“The decline in consumer demand has bottomed out and will start to recover from the beginning of next year. As far as investments are concerned, the situation is reversed. The activation of investment activity is a systemic anti-crisis measure. To this end, we are preparing the restart of the SZPK, regulatory changes in the construction industry, the launch of preferential industrial mortgages and the creation of special regimes in industrial clusters. The focus is on attracting regional investment. The main task of the standard is to create a common language of communication between the investor, the local administration and the resource supplying organization to simplify the scaling of business from region to region,” Andrey Belousov said.

In 2021, 12 pilot regions began to implement the standard, including the Republic of Tatarstan. Investment declarations were approved with commitments not to worsen conditions. Investment maps of subjects and a set of rules with optimal algorithms for connecting to the infrastructure have been formed. In regions where there were no investment development agencies and committees to support projects and resolve disputes, appropriate structures have been created. The extent to which these tools have affected the business climate in the regions was assessed by representatives of local business communities and the federal group.

The two most complex instruments of the standard are a set of investment rules and an investment card. Relevant federal departments are involved to help in their creation. Thus, together with Rosatom, the project “Through Investment Flow” was launched, which will reduce the time for issuing documentation and speed up the connection of businesses to the infrastructure. Some regions have already begun this work on their own.