General Directorate of Industry

The General Directorate of Industry is the technical body that assists the Minister in the discharge of his duties in the field of industrial development.

CONTACT:

Ministry of the economy, industry and public portfolio
first floor
Boulevard Denis SASSOU NGUESSO
face ex Cinéma VOG, P.O. 993
Brazzaville, Congo
Email: dgi@economie.gouv.cg

MISSIONS:

It specifically has the responsibility to:

• Contribute to the formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Nation's industrial policy for the development of the private, mixed and public sector;
• Orient and encourage the integration of the national industrial fabric;
• Develop a balanced development of national space through the departmentalization of industrial activity;
• Regulate and control the exercise of industrial activities in accordance with industry and environmental legislation;
• Have incentives specific to each priority industrial sector;
• Promote the revitalization of training, research and development, maintenance, standardization and quality control functions in the industrial sector;
• Ensure the application of market rules while preserving the domestic industry;
• Prospect, study and promote the possibilities of the development of industrial projects;
• Promote and monitor the creation and implementation of industrial development support projects;
• Participate in the development and implementation of national and international industrialization plans and programs of the country;
• Provide technical and economic advice on the various industrial projects;
• Ensure the integration and harmonization of the national production apparatus in the context of subregional industrialization;
• Manage the human resources, material, finances and assets of the directorate general.

ORGANIZATION:

The General Directorate of Industry is headed and run by a Director General. In addition to the Executive Secretariat; the IT department and the unit for monitoring, control and business conditions, it comprises:

• The Directorate of Industrial Promotion ;
• The Directorate of Regulation and Control ;
• The Directorate of equipment and industrial production;
• The Directorate of Administrative and Financial Affairs;
• Departmental directorates;
• Industrial development support projects.

The Executive Secretariat: is headed and run by a Chief of Secretariat who has the rank of service head and he is in charge of secretarial work comprising :

• receiving and shipping mail;
• Summary analysis of correspondence and other documents;
• Typing and reproduction of correspondence and other administrative documents;
• And, in general, any other task that may be entrusted to him.

The IT department: is headed and run by a department head, it ispecifically has the responsibility to :

• Ensure the development and update of information processing resources in the industrial sector;
• Collect information in view of opening files;
• Acquire appropriate software for the processing of industrial information;
• Develop the internal IT development plan;
• Design and operate applications and data processing chains and related programs;
• Manage data banks;
• Participate in industrial IT activities both nationally and internationally;
• Develop cooperative relationships with other data banks;
• Provide maintenance, material and program security, as well as user training.

The unit for monitoring, control and business conditions: is headed and run by a head of unit who has the rank of service head and is particularly charged with :

• Internal audit of structures of the Directorate General of Industry;
• Conduct studies aimed at forecasting future developments in the areas of activity of the Directorate-General for Industry;
• Conduct all projections with the aim of defining the place and role of the areas of activity of the Directorate General of Industry;
• Develop methods of identification, forecasting and projection, with a view to predicting future developments and actions to be undertaken in the industrial sector;
• Participate in activities related to industrial sector development strategies;
• Conduct a business cycle analysis of the industrial sector;
• Prepare the negotiation of draft agreements and other international acts in the field of industry;
• Ensure the implementation and conclusions of bilateral and multilateral negotiations in the field of industry.

The directorate of the industrial promotion: is headed and run by a director, it specifically has the responsibility to:

• Participate in the design and development of industrial sector plans and monitor their implementation;
• Prospect, study and promote the development possibilities of industrial projects;
• Identify projects in the industrial field;
• Evaluate and advise on studies of industrial projects;
• Study and evaluate the industrial projects submitted by various promoters;
• Prior approval of industrial projects in accordance with the provisions of the National Investment Charter;
• Evaluate and monitor the realization of industrial projects;
• Study, in liaison with the center of the administrative formalities of the companies, the files on industrial implantation with a view to obtaining an authorization;
• Evaluate the impact of economic, tariff and fiscal measures on the development of the industrial sector;
• Prepare, manage and develop industrial promotion tools and materials, including the investor's guide, promotional films, brochures and pamphlets presenting the opportunities and conditions offered to domestic and foreign investors;
• Help promote and enhance research results;
• Work towards identifying and mastering existing technologies;
• Encourage invention and technological innovation;
• Maintain and promote relations with different institutions and international research organizations.
• The Directorate of Industrial Promotion comprises:
• The service for industrial prospection;
• The service for industrial evaluation;
• The service for authorization and industrial establishment.

The Directorate for Regulation and Control: Headed and run by a director, it specifically has the responsibility to:

• Design and develop legislation related to the field of industry;
• Control the exercise of industrial activities throughout the national territory;
• Ensure the application of existing legislation in the field of industry and the environment;
• Design and develop draft laws and draft regulations appropriate for the protection of the domestic industry;
• Participate in the design and formulation of industrial orientation and programming laws;
• Provide technical advice on draft contracts;
• Participate in liaison with other structures interested in drawing up contracts;
• Identify and punish any offence relating to the establishment and exercise of industrial activity;
• Ensure, in particular with the other structures in charge of the environment, the protection of the industrial environment;
• Ensure the prevention of major risks;
• Contribute to the development of standards and ensure their application.

The directorate of regulation and control comprises:

• The service for regulation and litigation;
• The service for environment, hygiene and industrial safety;
• The service for standards.

The Directorate of Equipment and Industrial Production is headed and run by a director, who has the responsibility to:

• Analyze the business structure and assist these companies to improve their work organization systems and the rational use of raw material;
• Design a rational supply policy;
• Promote the development and integration of industrial sectors;
• Inventory industrial production capacities and propose solutions for their rational use;
• Develop cooperation between industrial units on one hand and between these units and enterprises of other sectors of the national economy on the other hand;
• Develop studies necessary for the diversification of industrial products and the creation of new products;
• Develop industrial statistical data;
• Assist companies in the choice of equipment and industrial processes;
• Study a system of maintenance and upkeep in the industrial enterprise and contribute to its implementation.

The directorate of equipment and industrial production comprises:

• The service for agribusiness and food industry;
• The service for chemical, wood, paper, textile and leather industries;
• The service for building materials and glass;
• The service for metallurgical, metal, mechanical and electrical industries.

The directorate of administrative and financial affairs: is headed and run by a director, with specific responsibility to:

• Manage human resources;
• Prepare and execute the budget;
• Manage the heritage;
• Centralize and manage archives and documentation.

The Directorate of Administrative and Financial Affairs comprises:

• The administrative and human resources department;
• The Department of Finance and Heritage Management
• The archives and documentation service.

The departmental directorates: are headed and run by departmental directors who have the rank of service head. They have specific responsibility to:

• Enforce, at the local level, regulations, legislation and decisions in the field of industry;
• Animate and coordinate the actions of the Directorate General of Industry at the departmental level;
• Participate in the development of departmental industrial development plans and programs;
• Analyze and suggest any study relevant to industrial development at the departmental level;
• Study and evaluate industrial projects presented by promoters at the departmental level;
• Assist economic operators and industrial promoters in the choice and formulation of industrial projects at the departmental level;
• Identify industrial activities at the departmental level.

Each departmental directorate comprises:

• The service for Industrial Promotion;
• The service for Regulation and Industrial Control;
• The service for administrative, financial and material affairs.