ALL FOR THE FOREIGN INVESTOR.
ALL FOR THE FOREIGN INVESTOR.
In aspiration to create for it favorable conditions at all have forgotten about
Interests of the state.
Vladimir Sanko.
TODAY in "President-hotel" the international conference "SRP begins:
Starting experience and perfection ways ". Confuses the status -"international".
Lobbyists of Russian variant SRP have quite mastered western piarovskie
Technologies also have learnt to market the stale goods in colourful packing. Here and
Conference became international. Its foreign participants very well all
Are known - they already many years, and some since the Soviet times,
Achieve concessions on working out of natural resources.
Conditions laid down by them are so unprofitable for a Russian side, what even
Our excessively liberal governments persistently resisted, and only
The most severe pressure of the first persons of the USA and France on the president and
The prime minister has resulted in 1996 in signing of the three first agreements: on
To two Sakhalin and harjaginskomu to deposits.
Long job of the foreign companies on pushing through of desirable decisions
Has made their in power offices, as legislative, and
Executive where influence of the western lobbyists incomparably is more productive
Influences of the Russian companies. Indispensable performance of their requirements more often
Is a condition of delivery to the country of the next credit. With dependence strengthening
From external credits formation process was accelerated
Is standard-legislative base in interests of the foreign companies. Interestingly
To notice, that Primakov's "rose-red" government has appeared most
Appeasable in this question.
The certain group of persons, which lobbies interests of the foreign companies
That acts in a role of members of various advisory councils, assistants,
If not assistants, heads of the ministries and departments, fractions and
State Duma committees. Undoubtedly, that they also will be the main orators on
To tribune of this "international" conference.
What "starting experience" functioning of agreements on section
Production? We will stop on those moments about which with a tribune to speak not
Will be.
First of all it is necessary to remind, that the Law "About agreements on section
To production "(further - law SRP) allows the company-operator
To be registered abroad, than they have immediately used. It
Unequivocally deduces their activity from a field of the Russian jurisdiction. More
That, all investment resources, "a powerful stream" which, under promises
Lobbyists, should flood the country, remain abroad. There will leave
And contributions of the Russian participants of the project. In the same place there will be all gain for
Realised production. All it does not promote our stabilisation
National currency.
The investment contribution of the foreign companies is extremely overestimated
Trivial reception - it equate to all cost of the project. And it
Far not so. On a project example "Sakhalin-2" it is visible, as the operator
Minimises the investment contribution: he has bought the second-hand sea
Platform at half price, that has allowed it to approach the extraction beginning on
Piltun-Astohsky oil field. Development of the Lunsky gas
Deposits it will be financed basically from a gain for the extracted oil.
"Rationality" of the operator in use of initial capitals
Left sideways to our real sector: it has lost not less than one billion
Dollars - the order for manufacturing sea ledostojkoj platforms, and with the account
Cumulative effect - all two. Under the Self-Tlorsky project domestic
To the manufacturer too a little that shines - the multinational corporation management takes the connected credit
To the USA, and, hence, all orders for cars and the equipment will get
To the American contractors. For anybody not a secret, that interests
The domestic manufacturer are not protected in any way in law SRP.
It is more and more obvious, that law SRP is accepted exclusively in interests
The foreign extracting companies. It is not spent any competition on the right
Workings out of deposits on the terms of SRP - all projects as it has appeared, already
Have operators, and long before the corresponding permission of the Duma.
Rather strange situation turns out: not the state dictates conditions
Deposit delivery in concession (SRP there is a variant of a tax mode in
The given case), and the investor. And this dictatorship is limited by nothing. The investor
As much as long can tighten negotiations: all the same nobody will select
At it the right to deposit working out. The governments vary, vary
The commissions which are authorised to form parametres of agreements, and the investor
Costs on the, while the next prime minister, eliciting permissions of the USA to delivery
The next credit of IMF or the World bank, will not present in a gift in
Many times more than asks. It is good, that Primakov in March has not reached to
The USA, and three deposits - two oil and gas and gold - for the present remain in
State properties.
The law gives only basic scheme of distribution of profit, and
Concrete parities of its sharing are a subject of negotiations
The governmental commission and the investor. Under the available information, for example,
On the Kuranahsky gold deposit these parametres till now not
Are co-ordinated. Nevertheless Primakov in March was ready to sign
The corresponding agreement. All it testifies as to force of pressure on
The first persons of the country from domestic and foreign lobbyists, and about
Their big possibilities on misinformation of prime ministers. Not casually, that
The greatest changes in is standard-legislative base SRP in interests
Foreign investors have occurred at three last prime ministers. From them it is difficult
To expect and demand knowledge on nedropolzovaniju, sufficient for acceptance
Decisions on these questions, and they are compelled to rely completely on
Recommendations of the assistants.
As participants of negotiating process on formation testify
Parametres of agreements, the investor in every possible way aspires to share reduction
Russian side incomes: costs are excessively overestimated and is diminished
Profitability of the project. The aforementioned should not mislead
rachitelnost the operator of the project "Sakhalin-2". It is capable only in the far
The future slightly to increase the state income (no more than 30 %
Saved), but also it is improbable - at the operator of the project of time
There is enough to paint all economy in compensated costs.
For certain at conference will assert, that with acceptance by the Duma
Changes and additions to the Law "About agreements on production section" and
Entering into acts corresponding korrektivov the standard
Base SRP is entered in the all-Russian legislation, are eliminated
Discrepancies and nestykovki which were earlier. If not to be too lazy and
To look attentively it is easy to be convinced, that changes are reduced to
To simple cancellation of all former legislative restrictions in sphere
nedropolzovanija and tax specifications. Now the decision on these
To questions at issue the governmental has formally the right to accept
The commission, and actually - the operator.
The relation of the government to signing of agreements - realisation is characteristic
The Sakhalin projects three years passed without corner for their economy
"Positions about structure and an order of compensation of expenses"and"Positions about
Formation and use of liquidating fund ". They are confirmed only
In July of this year. However these standard documents define, as as
To form, but do not contain any restrictions of numerical values of expenses and
Funds, than also the investor uses. The measure of its security is that, that it
Can easy spend jobs, not having defined, that to it will be
It is compensated from its costs.
Let's repeat, SRP there is a special tax mode. On idea, it should be
It is transparent and simple. For example, Iraq under the project "п я я п?п -2" has defined a share
The investor at production section in 23 %. Iraq is not excited with problems of the investor:
Volume of its capital investments, percent for credits, costs for operation.
At such approach the investor optimises the profit not at the expense of Iraq, and for
The bill of the reasonable organisation of jobs and financial streams. Our special
The tax mode tries to anticipate all possible costs of the investor, that is
It has obviously zatratnyj character.
By the way, it is necessary to notice, that for a deviation from the schedule of jobs,
Caused by United Nations sanctions, Iraq has warned the operator of the project "п я я п?п -2" about
Possibilities of cancellation of the agreement. At us such it is impossible.
At conference the basic discussion will for certain be developed round a question about
To dale of the Russian contractors in volume of orders for the goods and services. In this
Communications are useful for recollecting experience of Norway which used for once again
Accumulations of orders for the goods and services state company "п я п я п?п п ",
Preliminary having generated a strong legislative basis. At us, in
To the country of the primitive market, participation of the state company in
Investment projects with application SRP for some reason it is not provided.
//* an information Source: the Independent newspaper, 6.10.99
//* Reg. Nom. - 1091000062.37-------------------------------------------
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