Key Legislative Reforms - new property and organizational forms cont.
¥Foreign Investment
May 1991 Union parliament adopts Principles of Legislation on Foreign Investments in the USSR
¥Reaffirms right of 100% foreign capital
¥Expanded range of foreign investors allowed:
Juristic persons, stateless persons, foreign states, international organizations
Types of allowable enterprises
¥Joint Ventures
¥Joint-Stock companies
¥Limited-liability companies
¥Partnerships
¥Individual proprietorship firms
¥Granted concessionary rights for development of natural resources to foreign investors
¥Addressed questions of the establishment of and procedures governing activities of enterprises within so-called Òfree-economic zonesÓ (FEZ)