Syrian Arab Republic, Investment Law No. 18 of 2021 (قانون الاستثمار رقم 18 لعام 2021), passed by the People's Assembly on 19 April 2021, in the copy held by FAOLEX, the FAO's legislation database (record syr203382, a fifteen-page PDF of the law's text)
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Source ID
SRC-618
Citation
Syrian Arab Republic, Investment Law No. 18 of 2021 (قانون الاستثمار رقم 18 لعام 2021), passed by the People's Assembly on 19 April 2021, in the copy held by FAOLEX, the FAO's legislation database (record syr203382, a fifteen-page PDF of the law's text)
URL or path
https://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/syr203382.pdf ; research/CH4_INSTRUMENTS_2026-09-18/law18_2021_faolex_syr203382.pdf and _extracted.txt
Type
Primary instrument, a database's copy of the text (not the Gazette print)
Hierarchy tier
1
Published
2021-04-19
Accessed
2026-09-18
Snapshot
Downloaded 18 September 2026 (HTTP 200, 430,457 bytes, 15 pages). READ on 18 September 2026 for the D-211 Chapter 4 pass at Articles 1, 5, 25 to 28, 32, 38 and 41 against the Syria Report's reading and Decree 114's amendments; the text layer breaks lam-alif ligatures and is otherwise clean.
Claims
CH4, the instruments section, the paragraph beginning '**Investment Law No. 18 of 2021**' (04-title-land-legitimacy, v54 onward): Art. 26 defines the development zone as an administrative area treated as an investment zone 'لأغراض تنموية أو لأغراض التطوير العقاري أو لأغراض إعادة الإعمار في حال كانت المنطقة متضررة من الحرب', and provides that the zoning classification of a special economic zone is changed on the investor's application with the Council's approval; Art. 27 the investor may own and lease the land and property the project needs, with the Council's approval where the ownership ceiling is exceeded; Art. 28 transfer abroad of profits, annual interest and the proceeds of disposal, for foreign capital, after taxes and an external audit; Art. 38 on cancellation or liquidation the non-Syrian investor must transfer the project's land and the buildings on it to others; Art. 41 non-Syrian workers may transfer fifty per cent of wages abroad; Art. 5 expropriation only for the public benefit with compensation at real value; Art. 1 investor 'السوري أو غير السوري'.
Status
READ
Version history
The register keeps changing after the book is fixed in print. Each entry below was added to this row in the order shown.
A DATABASE'S COPY, NOT THE GAZETTE PRINT; the Gazette issue of 2021 carrying it has not been sought. THE SYRIA REPORT'S READING (26 May 2021) HOLDS AT THE TEXT: the zone category expressly covering reconstruction of war-damaged areas is Art. 26's development zone; own or lease is Art. 27; the zoning change is Art. 26's last paragraph. What the accounts do not carry is Art. 38's divestment on liquidation for the non-Syrian investor, which Decree 114 of 2025 leaves unamended. [registered 18 September 2026 for the D-211 Chapter 4 pass]
20 September 2026 (B-1 of the Chapter 4 v54 diff review): the whole extracted text searched for any provision addressed to a property owner, on the terms المالك, مالك, أصحاب العقارات, الشاغل, الإخلاء, نزع الملكية, الاستملاك and التعويض; the terms occur only in the investor's own ownership and lease (Art. 27), the expropriation guarantee for the investor's project (Art. 5) and the divestment on liquidation (Art. 38), and no article addresses an owner of land a project takes, which is what Chapter 4 line 207's 'neither addresses an owner at all' rests on.
Amended 20 September 2026 for Chapter 4 v55 (B-1 of the v54 review): the row now reads "[quotation withheld, 13 words; follow the citation]" and "[quotation withheld, 10 words; follow the citation]" in its Notes.
In its Notes: "[quotation withheld, 27 words; follow the citation]"
18 October 2026 (closing pass 2, D-315; unit CL2-D): Claims add 'CH4 v71 l.65: Law 18 of 2021 applied, "وتعليماته التنفيذية وتعديلاته", by Syrian Investment Authority Decision 95 of 3 September 2026 (SRC-856)'.