Industry-Specific Reforms > Provision of Industrial Land

  • The lack of objectivity and transparency in the allocation and pricing of land, as well as the absence of comprehensive information on the availability of land, prices, and acquisition procedures.
  • Land policies are developed in the absence of an updated integrated land information system.
  • Lack of standardized procedures for land allocation across the various government entities, and lengthy and cumbersome allocation procedures.  

Industry-Specific Reforms > Provision of Industrial Land

  • IDA lacks the financial resources needed for equipping industrial land with utilities. Together with the high cost of bringing utilities to undeveloped plots, small investors face a shortage of appropriate industrial land. IDA’s lack of financial resources is likely to hinder its ability to deliver on its plan of making available 60 million square meters of land by 2020.
  • Lack of industrial land plots (500 square meters) available to small enterprises in industrial zones, in line with the Industrial Licensing Law.
  • Excessive increases in land prices and the lack of pricing standards.

Industry-Specific Reforms > Provision of Industrial Land

  • Land registration requires conducting cadastral surveys. However, the current capacity of the Egyptian Survey Authority does not allow it to respond to survey requests nation-wide in a timely manner, thus, expedited requests for registration are put on hold. 

Industry-Specific Reforms > Provision of Industrial Land

Failure to fully enforce some of the provisions of Law No. 15 of 2017

  • The New Urban Communities Authority, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Housing, Utilities, and Urban Communities, continues to require investors to provide a bank guarantee to acquire land in industrial zones; this is an exaggerated requirement as it was revoked under Law No. 15 of 2017.