Lebanon : Business law handbook

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• BUSINESS AND DEVELOPMENT PROFILES = 9
• STRATEGIC PROFILE = 9
• Lebanese Geography = 9
• Lebanese People = 9
• Lebanese Government = 10
• Lebanese Economy = 10
• Key Contacts = 12
• Geography = 13
• People = 14
• Government = 16
• Economy = 18
• Communications = 20
• Transportation = 20
• Military = 21
• Transnational Issues = 22
• ENERGY SECTOR = 22
• NARCOTICS IN LEBANON = 22
• Status Of Country = 22
• Country Actions Against Drugs = 23
• U.S. Policy Initiatives and Programs = 25
• IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR UNDERSTANDING LEBANON = 26
• GEOGRAPHY = 26
• PEOPLE = 26
• HISTORY = 27
• Beginning of the Civil War - 1975-81 = 27
• U.S. Intervention - 1982-84 = 28
• Worsening Conflict and Political Crisis - 1985-89 = 29
• End of the Civil War - 1989-91 = 29
• Postwar Reconstruction - 1992 to Present = 30
• GOVERNMENT = 31
• Principal Government Officials = 32
• POLITICAL CONDITIONS = 33
• ECONOMY = 33
• FOREIGN RELATIONS = 35
• U.S.-LEBANESE RELATIONS = 37
• Principal U.S. Embassy Officials = 37
• TRAVEL AND BUSINESS INFORMATION = 38
• SELECTED FACTS ON LEBANON = 39
• LEBANON BUSINESS LEGAL SYSTEM = 44
• Judiciary = 44
• BUSINESS FORMS AND STRUCTURES = 44
• Companies Law = 44
• Joint Stock Company = 44
• Limited Liability Company = 45
• Branch Offices = 45
• Commercial Representation = 45
• CURRENCY AND BANKING = 46
• Foreign Currency = 46
• Banking = 46
• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY = 47
• Patents = 47
• Trademarks = 47
• Designs and Industrial Models = 48
• Taxation = 48
• INVESTMENT AND TRADE = 48
• Barriers to Trade and Investment = 48
• Customs = 48
• Work Permits = 49
• ENVIRONMENTAL LAW = 49
• STRATEGIC AND LEGAL INFORMATION FOR CONDUCTING BUSINESS = 50
• POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT = 50
• U.S.-Lebanese Political Relationship = 50
• Political System, Elections, And Political Parties = 50
• INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO LEBANON = 51
• THE WORLD BANK IN LEBANON = 51
• US ASSISTANCE TO LEBANON = 56
• SELECTED PROGRAMS = 61
• LEGAL, BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT CLIMATE = 62
• BASIC FACTS & GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE = 65
• H.E. PRESIDENT EMILE LAHOUD = 66
• H.E. SPEAKER NABIH BERRY = 69
• H.E. PRIME MINISTER DR. SALIM EL - HOSS = 70
• THE LEBANESE ECONOMY : CURRENT SITUATION = 71
• Principal growth sectors = 75
• Govenment role in the economy = 77
• Balance of payments situation = 78
• Infrastructure situation = 78
• PRINCIPAL COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL CHARACTERISTICS = 80
• Commercial Outlook = 81
• Political Outlook = 82
• PRINCIPAL ECONOMIC SECTORS = 83
• Industry = 83
• Agriculture = 83
• Construction and Real Estate = 83
• Tourism = 83
• INVESTMENT ISSUES = 84
• Public Finance = 84
• Privatization = 85
• Stock Exchange = 85
• Current and Projected Projects = 86
• Best Business Prospects = 88
• RECENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS = 89
• OVERVIEW OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS = 89
• Real Sector = 93
• Money, Banking and Credits = 96
• External Sector = 114
• Government and Public Finance = 122
• Financial Markets = 129
• BUSINESS SURVEY = 137
• INDESTRIAL ACTIVITY = 137
• COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY = 140
• CONSTRUCTION & PUBLIC WORKS ACTIVITY = 141
• Regional Results = 145
• Sectorial Results = 146
• PRACTICAL AND LERGAL INFORMATION FOR CONDUCTING BUSINESS IN LEBANON = 148
• LEADING SECTORS FOR U.S. EXPORTS AND INVESTMENT = 148
• AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS = 150
• SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES = 151
• Investment Opportunities = 152
• MARKETING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES IN LEBANON = 153
• Advertising and trade promotion = 154
• Selling to the government = 154
• Protecting your product from infringement = 155
• TRADE AND PROJECT FINANCING = 155
• Lebanese banking system = 155
• List of banks with U.S. correspondents = 156
• BASIC EXPORT-IMPORT & TRADE REGULATIONS = 158
• Trade and investment barriers = 158
• CUSTOMS REGULATIONS = 159
• Industry = 159
• Tourism = 159
• BUSINESS ARBITRATION = 160
• COMMERCIAL REPRESENTATION = 160
• BANKING SYSTEM IN LEBANON : RULES AND REGULATIONS = 160
• BANKING SYSTEM STRUCTURE = 160
• The Central Bank = 160
• The Banking Sector in Lebanon = 160
• OTHER FINANCIAL ORGANIZATIONS = 163
• Financial Institutions : = 163
• Exchange Operations : = 163
• K.3. Draft law Regulating Financial Institutions = 164
• Draft Law on Leasing Operations = 164
• BEIRUT STOCK EXCHANGE = 164
• Members of the Stock Market = 166
• Listing on the Stock Exchange = 166
• A - Fundamental rules of formation and operation = 167
• 2 - Foreign banks = 168
• B - Deletion of a bank from the list of banks = 169
• C - Accounts and statistics-control = 169
• D - General rules of management = 170
• Rules specific to certain operations = 170
• Role of the Bank of Lebanon = 170
• Guaranty of deposits = 171
• Bank Secrecy laws = 171
• THE LEBANESE BANKING & FINANCIAL SECTORS = 172
• List of Operating Financial Institutions = 172
• BANKS OPERATING IN LEBANON = 173
• Major Brokerage Firms = 176
• SPECIAL REPORT ON FININCIAL ACTIVITIES AVAILABLE = 176
• INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCIES = 177
• IMPORTANT INVESTMENT INVENTIVES & REGULATIONS = 178
• CENTRAL BANK INCENTIVES = 178
• SPECIAL FUNDING SCHEMES : KAFALAT = 182
• SELECTED LAWS AND REGUALTIONS AFECTING BUSINES ACTIVITY = 184
• TRADE AND CORPORATE LAW = 184
• Offshore companies = 184
• Foreign companies = 184
• 1 - Joint-stock companies and limited partnerships by shares : = 185
• 2 - Other companies : = 186
• The legal status of foreign companies = 186
• ESTABLISHING AN OFFICE = 188
• Branch Office = 188
• Forming a Lebanese Company = 189
• Offshore Companies = 190
• SOCIAL SECURITY AND LABOR REGULATIONS = 191
• SOCIAL SECURITY = 191
• LABOR REGULATIONS = 192
• ACQUIRING REAL ESTATE IN LEBANON = 192
• Acquisition of Real Estate by Foreigners in Lebanon = 193
• 4. License for Large Surface Areas = 194
• 5. Restrictions = 195
• Licensing = 196
• 7. Registration = 196
• 8. Dissolution of Licensed Companies = 197
• 9. Penalties = 197
• 10. Acquisition of Real Estate by Commercial Banks = 197
• 2. Provisions of the Code of Money and Credit = 198
• 3. Regulations by the Bank of Lebanon = 198
• TRADE MARKS AND PATENTS = 198
• FINANCIAL MARKET REGULATORY FRAMEWORK = 199
• THE LAWS OF WAR = 204
• BASIC TAX LAWS AND REGULATIONS = 207
• Lebanon - a Tax Haven for Foreign Companies = 207
• REGULAR TAXES ON CORPORATE INCOME AND GAINS = 207
• INCOME TAX RATES = 209
• OTHER TAX RATES = 210
• SPECIAL TAXES ON HOLDING COMPANIES = 210
• SPECIAL TAXES ON OFFSHORE COMPANIES = 211
• LEBANON CONSTITUTION AND BUSINESS CLIAMATE = 211
• TITLE Ⅰ. - FUNDAMENTAL PROVISIONS = 211
• TITLE Ⅱ. - POWERS = 213
• TITLE Ⅲ. - ELECTIIONS AND PRESEDENCY = 221
• TITLE Ⅳ. - VARIOUS PROVISIONS = 223
• TITLE Ⅵ. - FINAL AND TRANSITORY PROVISIONS = 226
• COPYRIGHT LAW IN LEBANON = 227
• DESIGN LAW IN LEBANON = 230
• LAWS AND SYSTEMS OF THE COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL ROPERTY IN LEBANON = 232
• Resolution No. 152 Issued on 19 July, 1939 = 232
• Paris Union Convention Concerning the Protection of Industrial Property = 232
• RESOLUTION NO. 2385, ISSUED ON 17 JANUARY 1924 = 232
• PART ON INVENTIONS WITH WHICH A CERTIFICATE IS GRANTED, AND INVENTION CERTIFICATES = 233
• BASIC REGULATIONS FOR ESTABLISHING AND OPERATING A COMMERCIAL BANK IN LEBANON = 237
• Basic Regulations = 237
• ELECTRONIC BANKING AND FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS = 249
• BASIC LIST OF REGULATIONS FOR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS = 252
• Beirut Central Bank Laws and Regulations List = 255
• BUSINESS TRAVEL TO LEBANON = 265
• US STATE DEPARTMENT SUGGESTIONS = 265
• IMPORTANT INFORMATION = 267
• Business customs = 267
• Local Holidays : = 267
• Business infrastructure = 267
• Food = 268
• Health : = 268
• SUPPLEMENTS = 269
• LARGEST LAW FIRMS = 269
• STRATEGIC STATISTICS = 270
• Country Data = 270
• Trade = 271
• U.S. AND COUNTRY CONTACTS = 271
• SELECTED GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS CONTACTS = 273
• THE BENEFITS AND RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE WIDER INTEGRATION OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS = 277
• FINANCIAL SECTOR LAWS & CIRCULARS = 282
• List of selected regulations by subject = 282
• IMPORT DATA = 287
• Indicateurs de performance $$\grave a$$ l'export = 288
• TOTAL EXPORTS = 288
• US COMPANIES IN LEBANON = 292
• INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT FUNDS IN LEBANON = 295
• INVERSTMENT FUNDS IN LEBANON = 296
• COMMERCIAL BANKS = 298
• Banks Specialized in Medium and Long Term Credits(Investment Banks) = 301
• List of Brokerage Institutions = 301
• Operating Financial Institutions = 301
• BILATERAL TRADE AGREEMENTS = 303
• Arab Countries = 303
• Africa = 304
• Asia = 304
• Australia = 304
• Europe = 304
• North America = 306
• South America = 306
• MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND TRADE STUCTURE = 307
• Trade Information Center = 307
• Technical Center for Research = 307
• The Insurance Department = 308
• The Trade Department = 309
• The Consumer Protection Department = 309
• The Intellectual Property Department = 310
• The Cabinet Department = 311
• THE WORLD BANK PROJECTS IN LEBANON = 311
• RECONSTRUCTION AND STABILIZATION - AN OVERVIEW = 312