Economic Conference Reviews Recommendations of Workshops

Khartoum(SUNA) – The sector workshops of the National Economic Conference Saturday evening continued their work at the Friendship Hall in the conference fifth sitting, which was held under the title of the (move to production and export horizons and expanding the employment opportunities) and reviewed the workshops recommendations.

The recommendations included the importance of establishing an electronic system to monitor the foreign trade movement and to apply the mandate of the Ministry of Industry and Trade on the internal and external trade.

The recommendations included the importance of issuing policies to protect local products and small-scale industries, exempt the production inputs from customs duties, and to stimulate the production for export.

In the axis of the energy and mining sector, the workshops stressed the importance of finance for the emergency plan for electricity sector projects during the year 2021, establishing a fund to finance renewable energy projects and implementing electricity transmission stations projects in Kordofan and Darfur.
The recommendations called for support to the development of the electricity sector equipment industry and work to examine the efficiency of electrical equipment arriving in the country.
In the axis of oil and gas, the recommendations included the need to review the Oil Wealth Act for the year 1998 and working to address the problem of debts resulting from the purchase of partners’ crude oil and to reconsider the legislation and laws regulating the presence of investors, in addition to increasing the production and the use of bio fuels represented in ethanol and jatropha.

The conferees stressed the need to build major distribution centers and warehouses along the railway line in the states of Kordofan and Darfur, and to reactivate their role in supplying these centers with oil products.

The workshops called for the adoption of a comprehensive strategic plan to absorb the interrelationships between the oil and other economic sectors.