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Description of methods and sources for Albania - INSTAT

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IPA 2009 Multi-beneficiary StatisticalCooperation ProgrammeD.1: Business Register <strong>of</strong> <strong>Albania</strong> (BR)Annex D: Main Data Sources UsedHistory <strong>of</strong> the Business Register <strong>of</strong> <strong>Albania</strong>Only public enterprises had existed in <strong>Albania</strong> until 1990. Since that period,however, the situation has changed markedly <strong>and</strong> private enterprises already play asignificant role in the economy. The tremendous growth in the number <strong>and</strong> output <strong>of</strong>these enterprises has necessitated the development <strong>and</strong> use <strong>of</strong> a statistical businessregister to estimate GDP accurately <strong>and</strong> in a cost effective way. This process beganon the 1st January 1993 with the establishment <strong>of</strong> a register that required alleconomic entities in <strong>Albania</strong> to register their businesses. Another importantmilestone was the establishment <strong>of</strong> a new law (no 7687 dated 16.03.1993 article 3)that obligated all tax <strong>of</strong>fices to provide in<strong>for</strong>mation to <strong>INSTAT</strong> on the creation <strong>of</strong>new enterprises, changes <strong>and</strong> deaths, <strong>and</strong> which was underpinned with aMemor<strong>and</strong>um <strong>of</strong> Underst<strong>and</strong>ing between <strong>INSTAT</strong> <strong>and</strong> the General Directorate <strong>of</strong>Taxation. Another important date in the development <strong>of</strong> the register was 18.07.1994when approval was reached on applying the International Nomenclature <strong>of</strong> the EU<strong>for</strong> Economic activities (NACE, at the 4 digit activity level)The re<strong>for</strong>m <strong>of</strong> business registration procedures reduces to one day the time requiredto register new businesses <strong>and</strong> combines all registration steps in a single procedure.A new Law on business registration re<strong>for</strong>m <strong>of</strong> May 3 rd , 2007. Law 9723 "OnNational Registration Centre" establishes the National Registration Centre (NRC) asa new central public institution. The National Registration Centre began to operate inSeptember 2007.This re<strong>for</strong>m provides several important benefits <strong>for</strong> <strong>Albania</strong>n businesses as well as<strong>for</strong>eign investors:– Simpler, faster <strong>and</strong> much less costly process <strong>for</strong> the registration <strong>of</strong> a newbusiness;– Simultaneous tax registration, social insurance, health insurance labordirectorate <strong>and</strong> <strong>INSTAT</strong> registration using a single application procedure;– Application windows will be located all over <strong>Albania</strong>;– Free public access to Commercial Registry in<strong>for</strong>mation via internetUnits <strong>of</strong> the BRSThe enterprises register holds all non-agricultural legal units (enterprises <strong>and</strong>institutions) that per<strong>for</strong>m their activity inside the <strong>Albania</strong>n territory <strong>and</strong> based on theprinciple: legal unit = enterprises = local unit179/236

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