The letter addressed by HM Mohammed VI in January 9, 2002 to the Prime Minister concerning the decentralized management of investment announced the creation of Regional Investment Centers (RICs), under the responsibility of the Walis of the Regions.  These centers are part of the mechanisms which the authorities have endeavoured to install in order to development investment at the national and regional levels. The role of the RICs, whose number is sixteen, is not restricted to the traditional task of a simple counter, but includes also broader missions such as making data and information related to economic issues available for economic operators and therefore help develop the potentialities of the regions where they operate. RICs are structured on two levels:

A -Assistance counter to the creation of companies

This counter is the only interlocutor of any person who wants to set up a business. Its role is:

- To place at the disposal of investors a unique form which includes all the information (legislative or statutory) required for the creation of the company.

- To carry out the necessary steps needed to procure documents or certificates required for the creation of a company from the administrations concerned

B- Assistance counter to investors:

Its role is to:

- Provide investors with all the useful information relating to regional investment;

- Study, if the projected investment is less than 200 million dirhams, all the requests for administrative authorisations or prepare all the administrative acts needed to the realization of the investment projects in the following sectors:  industry, agro-industry, mining, tourism, handicraft, and housing. Allow to the Wali of the region to deliver authorisations or sign the administrative deeds related to these investments;

- Study, if the investment is equal to or more than 200 million dirhams, draft contracts or draft conventions to be concluded with the state and to transmit them to the governmental authority concerned for approval and signature by the contracting parties;

- Propose friendly solutions in case of disagreement between investors and the administrations.

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