To register as a FEZ resident a legal body or an individual entrepreneur (hereinafter referred to as an applicant) has to present the following documents:

   The administration of FEZ «Grodnoinvest» considers the presented documents for compliance with the law.

   The documents must correspond to the following criteria:

• investments volume is to be not less than 1 million euro;
• new production is to be export-oriented and (or) import-substituting.

      The administration of FEZ «Grodnoinvest» considers the applicant’s documents in the course of 14 working days after the date of the documents presentation and takes a decision to stipulate/not stipulate FEZ «Grodnoinvest»
operational climate agreement with the applicant and to register/not register the applicant as a FEZ resident.

     In a 3-days period after the date of the decision making applicant receives a copy of this decision and a FEZ «Grodnoinvest» operational climate draft agreement.

     The form of the agreement is approved by the administration of FEZ «Grodnoinvest».

     The FEZ «Grodnoinvest» agreement must be stipulated in the course of 5 days after the moment of receipt of the copy of the administration’s decision by the applicant and not later than 1 month after the date of the decision making.

     The given agreement shall last for a project implementation period.
The applicant is considered to be registered as a FEZ «Grodnoinvest» resident after the date of the agreement’s stipulation and for the term of the agreement.

     The Resident Registration Certificate is given to the resident within 3 days after the date of agreement’s stipulation.

     In case of the agreement stipulation failure within a month after the date of the decision making, the administration’s decision becomes inoperative.

     In case of the agreement stipulation failure State duty for the registration in FEZ is not reimbursed.

• failure to present all the documents necessary for the registration as a FEZ «Grodnoinvest» resident;
• non-conformity of the submitted documents to the conditions mentioned in part 4 of the present item and in other legislative acts;
  
• shortage of industrial areas and (or) land plots of the necessary size meeting the requirements of the production type declared in the submitted documents;
  
• loss in the competition (see the conditions of the holding of the competition);
  
• any other reason provided by the legislative acts concerning the activity of the free economic zones.

      The copy of the decision including the reasons for the refusal is to be sent to the applicant not later than the next day after the day of the decision making.

      In case of taking the decision to refuse a registration the state duty paid for the registration is returned to the applicant in accordance with the procedures established by the law.

     The decision to refuse a registration as a FEZ resident taken by the administration of FEZ «Grodnoinvest» may be challenged in court in accordance with the established procedure.

      In case of another applicant’s appeal to the administration of FEZ «Grodnoinvest» with a similar investment project or an investment project planned for implementation on the same land plot (not yet occupied), there is to be taken a decision on holding of a competition which is to be announced in mass media in the course of 14 days after the date of this applicant’s appeal.

     Within 3 working days after the date of another applicant’s appeal the administration of FEZ «Grodnoinvest» is to inform the first applicant on the renewal of the terms of the consideration of his enterprise’s registration as a FEZ «Grodnoinvest» resident.

     The competition’s subject, conditions and order of holding is determined by the administration of FEZ «Grodnoinvest» in coordination with Grodno Executive Committee.A FEZ «Grodnoinvest» agreement is stipulated with the applicant who won the competition within 5 working days after the announcement of the competition’s results.