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Legal Alert Moçambique - Aprovada a Nova Lei de Investimento em Moçambique

Legal Alert Mozambique - New Investment Law Approved in Mozambique

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LEGAL ALERT<br />

APROVADA A NOVA<br />

LEI DE INVESTIMENTOS<br />

EM MOÇAMBIQUE<br />

NEW INVESTMENT<br />

LAW APPROVED<br />

IN MOZAMBIQUE<br />

JUN. 2023<br />

<strong>Moçambique</strong>, no âmbito<br />

<strong>de</strong> promover uma melhoria<br />

no ambiente <strong>de</strong> negócios e<br />

<strong>de</strong> investimentos privados, e face<br />

ao actual contexto e dinâmica da<br />

economia internacional, aprovou<br />

recent<strong>em</strong>ente a nova <strong>Lei</strong> <strong>de</strong><br />

investimentos, a saber a <strong>Lei</strong><br />

nº. 8/2023 <strong>de</strong> 09 <strong>de</strong> Junho.<br />

Mozambique, aiming to promote<br />

an improv<strong>em</strong>ent in the business<br />

and private investment<br />

environment, and consi<strong>de</strong>ring<br />

the current context and dynamics<br />

of the international economy,<br />

has recently approved the new<br />

Investment Law, namely Law<br />

No. 8/2023 of June 9th.<br />

PORTUGAL - ANGOLA - BRASIL - CABO VERDE - GUINÉ BISSAU - MOÇAMBIQUE rsa-lp.com


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Esta <strong>Lei</strong>, revogou na totalida<strong>de</strong> a anterior lei<br />

dos investimentos privados, a <strong>Lei</strong> nº. 3/93 <strong>de</strong><br />

24 Junho, e introduziu algumas inovações.<br />

Importa, ainda, referir que a <strong>Lei</strong> n.º 8/2023 <strong>de</strong><br />

09 <strong>de</strong> Junho entrará <strong>em</strong> vigor no prazo <strong>de</strong> 90<br />

dias a contar da sua publicação e o Governo<br />

ficou mandatado para aprovar regulamentação<br />

geral e especifica <strong>de</strong>sta nova <strong>Lei</strong>.<br />

This Law completely repeals the previous<br />

private investment law, Law No. 3/93 of June<br />

24th, and introduces some innovations. It is<br />

also worth mentioning that Law No. 8/2023 of<br />

June 9th will come into effect within 90 days<br />

from its publication, and the Government has<br />

been authorized to approve the general and<br />

specific regulations of this new Law.<br />

A nova <strong>Lei</strong> dos investimentos já era aguardada,<br />

pois dada a actual conjuntura do ambiente<br />

<strong>de</strong> negócios impunha-se actualizar alguns<br />

dos procedimentos e das garantias a dar aos<br />

investidores privados nacionais e estrangeiros<br />

<strong>em</strong> território nacional.<br />

The new Investment Law was eagerly awaited,<br />

as the current business environment necessitated<br />

updating certain procedures and<br />

guarantees to be provi<strong>de</strong>d to national and<br />

foreign private investors within the national<br />

territory.<br />

Em concreto, esta nova <strong>Lei</strong> veio reforçar a<br />

proteção ao direito <strong>de</strong> proprieda<strong>de</strong> que recai<br />

sobre os investidores <strong>em</strong> caso <strong>de</strong> expropriação,<br />

nacionalização e requisição dos seus direitos.<br />

Neste campo específico foi dada uma<br />

uma maior atenção ao direito <strong>de</strong> proprieda<strong>de</strong>,<br />

uma vez que para além da <strong>de</strong>terminação do<br />

valor real do mercado (dos activos patrimoniais)<br />

para o apuramento da justa in<strong>de</strong>mnização,<br />

se estabeleceu que a mesma <strong>de</strong>ve ser<br />

paga <strong>de</strong> forma célere e expedita e <strong>em</strong> caso<br />

<strong>de</strong> mora, à justa in<strong>de</strong>mnização serão somados<br />

os juros <strong>de</strong> mora que result<strong>em</strong> do atraso<br />

no processamento do cálculo e pagamento<br />

daquela.<br />

Outro ponto muito relevante e que muita das<br />

vezes é do interesse dos Investidores estrangeiros,<br />

está ligado com a simplificação das<br />

transferências <strong>de</strong> fundos para o exterior. A<br />

nova <strong>Lei</strong> não afastou esta garantia, contudo e<br />

com vista a harmonizar com a <strong>Lei</strong> cambial <strong>em</strong><br />

vigor <strong>em</strong> <strong>Moçambique</strong>, atribuíu ao Banco <strong>de</strong><br />

<strong>Moçambique</strong>, o po<strong>de</strong>r <strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong>terminar o escalonamento<br />

das transferências para o exterior.<br />

Adicionalmente, foram alargadas as formas<br />

<strong>de</strong> concretização do investimento direto nacional<br />

e o investimento direto estrangeiro.<br />

Specifically, this new Law reinforces the<br />

protection of property rights for investors in<br />

cases of expropriation, nationalization, and<br />

requisition of their rights. In this specific field,<br />

greater attention has been given to property<br />

rights, as it is established that, in addition to<br />

<strong>de</strong>termining the real market value of assets<br />

for the calculation of fair compensation, such<br />

compensation must be paid promptly and expeditiously.<br />

In case of <strong>de</strong>lay, the late payment<br />

interest will be ad<strong>de</strong>d to the fair compensation<br />

resulting from the <strong>de</strong>lay in processing<br />

the calculation and payment.<br />

Another significant point of interest for foreign<br />

investors is the simplification of fund<br />

transfers abroad. The new Law does not<br />

r<strong>em</strong>ove this guarantee; however, in or<strong>de</strong>r to<br />

align with the current foreign exchange law<br />

in Mozambique, it grants the Bank of Mozambique<br />

the power to <strong>de</strong>termine the phasing<br />

of transfers abroad.<br />

Additionally, the ways in which national direct<br />

investment and foreign direct investment<br />

can be realized have been expan<strong>de</strong>d. In this<br />

regard, the legislature aims to keep up with<br />

global technological and financial advanc<strong>em</strong>ents<br />

and apply such progress to invest-<br />

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PORTUGAL - ANGOLA - BRAZIL - CAPE VERDE - GUINÉ-BISSAU - MOZAMBIQUE


<strong>Legal</strong> <strong>Alert</strong> - JUN 2023<br />

Neste ponto, o legislador preten<strong>de</strong>u acompanhar<br />

a evolução tecnológica e financeira global<br />

e aplicar tal evolução aos investimentos<br />

que estejam intimamente ligados a <strong>Moçambique</strong>.<br />

Outra novida<strong>de</strong> legislativa está relacionada<br />

com o estabelecimento <strong>de</strong> um “regime <strong>de</strong><br />

investimento”. Ora, é possível verificar que<br />

exist<strong>em</strong> agora dois regimes aplicáveis aos<br />

projectos <strong>de</strong> investimento, a saber: o regime<br />

<strong>de</strong> mero registo (que consiste na simples<br />

apresentação <strong>de</strong> proposta <strong>de</strong> investimento<br />

para efeitos <strong>de</strong> registo e atribuição <strong>de</strong> incentivos<br />

aplicáveis) e o regime <strong>de</strong> autorização<br />

(que se aplica aos projetos <strong>de</strong> gran<strong>de</strong> dimensão,<br />

aos <strong>em</strong>preendimentos <strong>de</strong> parcerias publico<br />

privadas e concessões <strong>em</strong>presariais,<br />

e aos projetos <strong>de</strong> investimento que tenham<br />

por objeto o processamento industrial <strong>de</strong><br />

produtos mineiros e/ou petrolíferos). Embora<br />

ambos tenham <strong>em</strong> vista o benefício das garantias<br />

e incentivos previstos na nova <strong>Lei</strong>, a<br />

forma <strong>de</strong> aplicação não é a mesma.<br />

Em consequência da criação <strong>de</strong>stes dois<br />

regimes, o legislador indicou o prazo <strong>de</strong> tomadas<br />

das <strong>de</strong>cisões aplicáveis a cada caso,<br />

sendo que os mesmos variam entre cinco (5)<br />

a <strong>de</strong>z (10) dias, po<strong>de</strong>ndo estas <strong>de</strong>cisões ser<br />

objecto <strong>de</strong> reclamação, por parte dos investidores,<br />

cabendo a essas <strong>de</strong>cisões, para além<br />

da reclamação o recurso hierárquico, hierárquico<br />

improprio ou recurso tutelar.<br />

Por fim e não menos importante, a nova <strong>Lei</strong><br />

dos investimentos, enumera actos que são<br />

tidos como infrações apontando ainda como<br />

sanções para tais actos, a advertência escrita,<br />

a perda dos direitos dos incentivos e para<br />

os casos mais graves, a revogação da autorização<br />

ou cancelamento do registo <strong>de</strong> investimento,<br />

<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>ndo do regime aplicável ao<br />

investimento <strong>em</strong> causa.<br />

ments closely linked to Mozambique.<br />

Another legislative novelty is the establishment<br />

of an “investment regime.” It is now<br />

possible to i<strong>de</strong>ntify two applicable regimes<br />

for investment projects: the registration regime<br />

(which consists of simply submitting<br />

an investment proposal for registration and<br />

allocation of applicable incentives) and the<br />

authorization regime (which applies to largescale<br />

projects, public-private partnership<br />

ventures, entrepreneurial concessions, and<br />

investment projects that involve the industrial<br />

processing of mining and/or petroleum<br />

products). Although both aim to benefit from<br />

the guarantees and incentives provi<strong>de</strong>d in<br />

the new Law, their impl<strong>em</strong>entation methods<br />

differ.<br />

As a result of the creation of these two regimes,<br />

the legislature has established specific<br />

timeframes for making <strong>de</strong>cisions applicable<br />

to each case, ranging from five (5) to<br />

ten (10) days. These <strong>de</strong>cisions can be subject<br />

to complaints from investors, and in addition<br />

to the complaint, hierarchical appeal,<br />

improper hierarchical appeal, or supervisory<br />

appeal may be pursued.<br />

Lastly, and not least important, the new Investment<br />

Law lists acts that are consi<strong>de</strong>red<br />

infractions, pointing out the sanctions for<br />

such acts, which inclu<strong>de</strong> written warnings,<br />

loss of incentive rights, and for more severe<br />

cases, the revocation of authorization<br />

or cancellation of investment registration,<br />

<strong>de</strong>pending on the applicable regime to the<br />

respective investment.<br />

PORTUGAL - ANGOLA - BRASIL - CABO VERDE - GUINÉ BISSAU - MOÇAMBIQUE<br />

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