During the opening of this session, the Wali praised the efforts made by the team of the CRI Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, in its post-reform configuration, launched following the High Orientations of SM. King Mohammed VI, as “facilitator of the act of investing with economic operators and key player in the implementation of State policy in terms of incentive, promotion and attraction of investments » and which made it possible to improve all of the CRI’s performance indicators.
The Wali also thanked the public and private actors of the regional investment ecosystem for their permanent mobilization, around the CRI, in all inclusive initiatives aimed at development, investment incentives and support for promoters. projects and SMEs/VSEs, within a community and participatory framework promoting convergence and synergy of efforts.
He also added that it is necessary to maintain the general mobilization and the collective efforts for an active and effective contribution to the reinforcement of the resilience of the companies and the economic recovery, in accordance with the High orientations of SM. King Mohammed VI, through the adoption of realistic action plans and innovative initiatives in terms of stimulating investment allowing sustained creation of wealth and stable jobs.
Subsequently, Jalal Benhayoun, Managing Director of the Regional Investment Center of the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceïma region drew up the activity report of the achievements of the CRI TTA for the year 2021.
He has, in this sense, made it known that the CRI TTA, and within the framework of its missions of regional economic impetus, has contributed alongside the other actors concerned to the development of an industrial territorial offer and diversified economic activity in all the cities of the region, through the study and planning of 14 new industrial zones and zones of economic activities on a total surface of 630 Ha requiring the mobilization of a budgetary envelope of more than 2.7 billion MAD. This will eventually create more than 88,000 jobs.
With regard to the work of the Unified Regional Investment Commission (CRUI), 91 meetings were held for the year 2021, during which 307 projects were approved, i.e. 75% of the projects examined during this financial year, with a 68% increase compared to 2020, for a total amount of more than 35 billion MAD, i.e. an increase of around 120%. These projects will eventually generate more than 155,000 new stable jobs. The average processing time for investment files has fallen from 28 days in 2020 to 8.3 days today.
The CRI TTA has also facilitated the administrative procedures for creating 3,071 companies, an increase of 30% compared to 2020, capable of creating more than 8,700 new stable jobs.
With regard to the Integrated Business Support and Financing Program (PIAFE), Mr. Benhayoun also declared that since its launch, 3,424 projects have been financed for a budget of 691 million MAD, thus positioning the region in 3rd place in the national level in terms of funding amounts. In this context, the year 2021 was marked by the strengthening of collective support and awareness-raising efforts carried out by the CRI in collaboration with the entire investment ecosystem, in particular through the development of several guides and documents around the territorial offer for the benefit of project leaders and investors such as the company’s financing guide and the organization of caravans having made 30 stops at the level of the various cities of the region and which made it possible to get closer to more than 4,000 project leaders.
At the end of the meeting, the members of the board unanimously approved all the resolutions presented during this session.