Investment declaration

A declaration of investment is to be submitted at the one-stop shop at API, a mechanism designed to facilitate administrative and legal formalities. It provides in a single space desks for each of the different administrations that play a role in clearing an investment file. The one-stop shop means a quicker time frame for carrying out the administrative requirements in declaring a project and in setting up a company. The one-stop shop’s main functions are:

Main legal entities for companies

Partnerships
Companies that are made up of associates who know and trust each other (intuitus personae); an individual’s holdings can be resold only if all the other associates agree

Joint-stock corporations
An associate is responsible only up to the limit of his or her contribution. His or her holdings can, in principle, be freely traded.

Setting up a company

The one-stop shop at the industrial promotion agency (API) can take care of all the administrative and legal procedures required to set up a company. Services at this one-stop shop are available to Tunisian and foreign promoters, either resident or non resident, who are investing in Tunisia, covering undertakings that have been the object of an investment declaration as per the investment incentives code. The one-stop shop can also provide promoters with any information and assistance relating to the decision to invest.

Aside from the possibility of submitting your declaration at either API’s central or regional offices, we will provide you with a personal liaison person who will help you to set up your company in Tunisia. In the 24 hours following receipt of the application, the one-stop shop will have carried out all the formalities required to set up your company.

Checklist of documents required:

single company  
limited company (SARL)/one-man limited liability company (SUARL)  
limited liability company (SA)
 

The document attesting to legal creation of a company must be submitted to:

the registry at the finance office dealing with the statutes and documents listed in the law governing the trade register, and
the official journal of the Tunisian Republic (JORT), for publication

Single liaison person

To make the services provided by the one-stop shop even better, API has established the office of the single liaison person to take care of all the formalities required to legally establish a business. This single liaison person carries out these formalities on behalf of the promoter, within 24 hours after it has been determined that the application is complete.
 

Legal constitution of your company on line

Companies can also be set up via reliable electronic means, as outlined in legislation governing electronic exchanges, in line with law n°2004-89 of 31 December 2004 concerning procedures for setting up companies on line.