Data-center law in Tajikistan

Law No. 818 (16 April 2012), Arts. 3-5, 9

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Law No. 818, signed 16 April 2012, repealed the prior Law on Ecological Expertise of 5 March 2003 and sets Tajikistan's general framework for state and public ecological review (экологическая экспертиза) of planned economic and other activity. Art. 3 makes conducting state ecological expertise mandatory as a core principle of state policy, on a presumption that planned activity is environmentally hazardous until reviewed.

Art. 4 states the review's goals as preventing negative impacts on public health, natural resources, and environmental safety from planned managerial, economic, or investment activity, and its tasks as assessing the adequacy of environmental-protection measures and the accuracy of a project's own risk assessment.

Art. 5 provides for two kinds of review, state and public; Art. 9 lists the objects subject to state ecological expertise as republican and local projects, sectoral concepts, forecasts, programs, and schemes tied to natural-resource use or environmental impact, urban-planning projects, and architectural and construction projects provided for by legislation, with no separate class for information-technology or data-infrastructure facilities.

Art. 27 repeals the prior 2003 law of the same name; Art. 28 provides that the Law is brought into force after its official publication, without stating a specific commencement day in the text read.

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Law No. 2173 (14 May 2025), Arts. 1, 3, 16, 21

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Law No. 2173, signed 14 May 2025, sets Tajikistan's general rules for encouraging and regulating investment activity, without naming information technology or data infrastructure as a distinct priority sector.

Art. 1 defines an 'investment incentive' (инвестиционная льгота) as an encouragement granted to investors under legislation or under an investment agreement; Art. 3 lists the methods of encouraging investment, including tax and customs incentives, accelerated depreciation of fixed assets, and the creation of free economic zones, special investment zones, and small industrial zones.

Art. 16 lets an investment agreement grant a project a special tax regime (including exemption of investors, contractors, and foreign employees from certain or all taxes) and a special customs regime (partial or full exemption from customs payments), among other special rights, for a stated period or the agreement's full term.

Art. 21 lets the state grant tax, customs, and other incentives outside an investment agreement, under legislation, other agreements, or recognized international instruments. Art. 36 repeals the prior Law on Investments of 15 March 2016 and the Law on the Investment Agreement of 19 March 2013; Art. 37 provides that the Law is brought into force after its official publication, without stating a specific commencement day in the text read.

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