People & Institutions

Investment licences

This register holds 768 investment licences from the lists of the National Investment Commission and the Baghdad Investment Commission. For each licence it gives the project, the licensee, the place, the body that holds the land, the stated cost and how far the work has gone, as the licensing body recorded them. The stated cost of these licences is about $79.6 billion. That figure is what the licensees declared, not money that was spent.

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Licensing body:

National Investment Commission

The national commission licenses the large projects. Its list covers licences granted from 2009 to 2020, with the state of each project as the commission recorded it.

387

licences held by 319 licensees

Tier A

$66.3 billion

stated cost of the 375 licences that give one. Costs listed in dinars are converted at 1,190 dinars to the dollar.

Tier B

licences withdrawn, without a signed contract or not started, according to the list

Tier A

By sector

Commerce76
Industry59
Services50
Housing42
Sport and leisure34
Tourism25
Energy24
Agriculture23
Health23
Education14
Transport9
Telecommunications8

By the state of the project in the list

Not reported104
Completed81
New licence68
Contract not signed48
Under way38
Withdrawn36
Not started12

By province

Babil90
Basra84
Baghdad66
Najaf40
Qadisiyah34
Dhi Qar19
Diyala10
Several provinces7
Maysan7
Kirkuk5

Licences by year of grant

Source: List of the National Investment CommissionTier A

Licensees with more than one licence

Source: The list of licensed projects of the National Investment Commission. The grouping by sector and by state of the project is ours, made from the fields of the list.Tier A

What was found about the licensees

Of the 768 licences, the search of public sources is complete for the licensees of 43 and has begun but is not complete for 117. The work continues.

Among the licences whose research has begun, 12 have a licensee whose legal status is something other than “not charged”, or for whom a published source records a link to a politician, a party, an official or an armed group. For the rest, no charge, judgment, sanction or official finding has been found so far. Where the search is not complete, the entry says so. The button “With a finding or a stated link” below limits the table to these licences.

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Investment licences
Licensee	Project	Sector	Province and holder of the land	Stated cost	State of the project	Legal status
Nawat Ports Management Company LLC شركة نواة لإدارة الموانئ محدودة المسؤولية	Management and operation of berth 14 at Al-Maqil port 113/2016 18 December 2016	Transport	Basra	$10 million	Completed 100%	Not charged as of the date of writing
Nawat Ports Management Company LLC شركة نواة لإدارة الموانئ محدودة المسؤولية	Management and operation of berth 13 at Al-Maqil port 114/2016 18 December 2016	Transport	Basra	$12.4 million	Under way 30%	Not charged as of the date of writing

Download:register_investment_licences.csv .xlsx