PM gives assignments
Support A1+!The industrial council under the RA Prime Minister held a subsequent session in government under the direction of Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. Among participants were the heads of government agencies, as well as representatives of the private sector and parliamentary forces.
RA Minister of Economy Tigran Davtyan presented the process of activities that have been implemented in the frames of the strategy for the policy on industry hinged on export, including structural, investment, organizational and financial support programs. Davtyan informed that industrial development has been quite dynamic in the first half of 2012.
Tigran Davtyan mentioned that the government continues to show government support to industrial companies through several instruments. To this day, the government has approved 8 investment programs (17.5 billion drams) to provide the regime for postponing the 300 million dram VAT and envisages creating nearly 340 new workplaces.
During the session, the government confirmed the draft of the 2012-2015 Plan of Actions in Pharmacology and Biotechnologies. The Plan defines the following directions, including the creation of a system for quality control and a local raw material base, capacity building, financial support, as well as the engagement of transnational corporations and the promotion of sales.
The council members also discussed the proposal for the development of a strategy on the industrial policy aimed at exporting industrial products. Taking into account the comments and opinions, the head of government assigned the interested parties to develop and present to the council a draft conception for the strategy on the industrial policy for exports and a plan of actions by late October 2012.
