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Our guide to the issues likely to impact businesses and the key measures taken by African governments in response to COVID-19.
With this brief analysis we wish to analyse the implications of force majeure events in the petroleum sector during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Presidential Decree no. 11/2020, of 30 March, the President of the Republic of Mozambique decreed the State of Emergency, on grounds of public calamity, throughout the country, with a duration of 30 days, effective as from 0.00 a.m. on 01 April 2020 and ending at 24.00 a.m. on 30 April 2020.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic is already a reality in Mozambique, with the confirmation of the 8th coronavirus case in Mozambique on Sunday, 29 March 2020, it is becoming increasingly urgent to make decisions about how employment relations should be structured and regulated.
...with emphasis on carrying out foreign exchange transactions, as well as adjusting it to the operation of a market for the free movement of people, goods and services harmonized with the regional integration process and conforming it to the new legislation to prevent and combat money laundering...
It is also important to take into consideration that, with the electronic solution in use, it will be convenient, although not mandatory, to use digital documents and signatures, that is, to replace paper documents and handwritten signatures, as long as the same levels of "intelligibility and durability" are ensured.
In this sense, the New ComC establishes that, on the one hand, the acts subject to registration and publication (such as, for example, the company's annual balance sheet and accounts) must be filed with the Legal Entities Registry ("CREL") in digital format and must be published...
In this sense, the New ComC establishes that, on the one hand, the acts subject to registration and publication (such as, for example, the company's annual balance sheet and accounts) must be filed with the Legal Entities Registry ("CREL") in digital format and must be published...
We hereby inform the business community and other interested parties that Articles 9, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19, 10 and 21 of the Value Added Tax Code have been amended under the measures of the PAE - Economic Acceleration Stimulus Package.