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Law No. 27 of 1994 Promulgating the Law Concerning Arbitration in Civil and Commercial Matters

Egypt · Law / Act

In Force

Egypt's general arbitration law, based on the 1985 UNCITRAL Model Law (Egypt has not adopted the 2006 UNCITRAL amendments). Minor amendments followed in 1997 an…

Law No. 4 of 1994 for the Protection of the Environment

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Egypt's general environmental protection law, establishing environmental-impact-assessment and permitting requirements. Amended by Law 9/2009 and Law 105/2015 (…

Law No. 67 of 2010 Regulating the Participation of the Private Sector in Infrastructure Projects, Services and Public Utilities

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Egypt's principal public-private partnership law, establishing the PPP Central Unit and the Supreme Committee of Partnership Projects. Executive Regulations (De…

Law No. 87 of 2015 Issuing the Electricity Law

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Egypt's primary electricity-sector framework law, unbundling generation, transmission and distribution and introducing third-party grid access for private gener…

Movables Security Law

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Egypt's UNCITRAL-model-aligned secured-transactions law, in force since February 2016, covering a broad range of movables (receivables, bank deposits, equipment…

Presidential Decree-Law No. 203 of 2014 Regarding the Stimulation of Producing Electricity from Renewable Energy Sources

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Egypt's renewable-energy procurement framework, establishing feed-in-tariff, direct-negotiation and competitive-bidding mechanisms for awarding renewable genera…

Restructuring, Preventive Reconciliation and Bankruptcy Law

Egypt · Law / Act

In Force

Egypt's first law entirely dedicated to bankruptcy, in force since 19 March 2018, replacing the bankruptcy provisions previously in the Trade Code (Law 17/1999)…