Agency for Economic Development of the Leningrad Region

Upon investor request, the following information is provided:

• Provisions of constitutional federal laws, federal laws, regulatory legal acts of federal executive authorities, executive authorities of the Leningrad Region, regulatory acts of local self-government bodies.
• Data on tariffs, payment rates and the procedure for determining fees under regulated tariffs of natural monopolies, approved by regulatory legal acts of federal executive authorities and executive authorities of the Leningrad Region.
• Data obtained from local self-government bodies of municipalities of the Leningrad Region on population size, level of economic development, list of industrial sites located on their territory, and other data.
• Provisions of documents regulating the procedure for obtaining technical conditions and the procedure for concluding contracts for technological connection.
• Information on support measures provided for by federal, regional and municipal regulatory legal acts.
• Information on tax rates and fees, excise taxes, taxation regimes provided for by federal, regional
  and municipal regulatory legal acts.
• Information on special regimes for the activities of legal entities established by current legislation in the Leningrad Region and its individual districts, the content of target programs at all levels and the procedure for participation in them.
• Information on decisions of the Investment Council under the Governor of the Leningrad Region.
• Information on the level of human resources potential of the Leningrad Region and its municipalities, the availability of free labor resources in the Leningrad Region and the dynamics of their development.
• Data on the level of engineering, transport and social infrastructure provision in the Leningrad Region and its individual territories.
• Data on the list of documents, deadlines, procedure and place for obtaining the approvals and permits necessary for the implementation of the project
  in accordance with federal, regional and municipal regulatory legal acts.
• Information on the rules for project support provided for by regulatory legal acts of the Leningrad Region.
• Other information contained in open sources of information available to an unlimited number of persons and related
  to the implementation of projects in the Leningrad Region.

Investment site selection is carried out upon investor request based on the data provided in the application
for support.

Information on the investment site is provided in the format of an investment site passport.

Information is provided within 3 business days from the date of receipt of the corresponding request.

If the register of investment sites does not contain sites that exactly match all the specified parameters, information on the most suitable sites is provided.

After the investor reviews the investment site options, the Front Office coordinates with the owners/tenants their visit for the final decision on the location of production (administrative, infrastructure, warehouse) facilities.

• To date, interaction regulations have been signed between the Agency and resource supply organizations: State Unitary Enterprise "Vodokanal of the Leningrad Region", PJSC "Gazprom", PJSC "Rosseti Lenenergo". Interaction between the investor and the resource supply organization is carried out through the Agency's personal manager.  
• Support for engineering and transport infrastructure procedures is carried out by analyzing the validity of the fee (tariffs, payments) upon investor request.
• The Agency analyzes the validity of the fee (tariffs, payments) within the framework of engineering and transport infrastructure support for the project to engineering infrastructure facilities, if the regulation of this fee (tariff, payment) is carried out by the Government of the Leningrad Region.
• The deadline for providing an opinion by the Committee on Tariffs does not exceed 30 days.
• The procedure for technological connection to utility networks is approved by the Summary of Investment Rules of the Leningrad Region,
  and is also posted in the road map in the investor's personal account.