Morocco is preparing to start granting licenses to arms manufacturers through newly passed legislation, authorizing them to set up productions projects on national soil.
To give itself the means to achieve this new industrial ambition, Morocco has adopted Law 10-20 on defense and security materials and equipment, arms and ammunition.
Several types of industries are covered through this new legislation, including arms and ammunition, but also the maintenance of military aircrafts.
Morocco has piously entered into a strategic partnership this year with Belgian companies Sabca and Sabena and the American Lockheed Martin, which plans to build a state-of-the-art maintenance center of 15,000 m2 in Benslimane, south of the Capital Rabat..
Last November, Morocco’s Minister of Defense Administration announced that the Kingdom is well on its way to start manufacturing drones.
Minister Abdellatif Loudiyi said: “The Moroccan government wants to develop the manufacture of drones capable, specialized in conducting intelligence operations, surveillance and armed attacks.”
According to the official, the new Investment Charter has provided a specific support mechanism for projects in the field of national defense, considered of high strategic importance.
Loudiyi said that a project to construct a military aircraft maintenance factory had been given to an international business with expertise in the area, though he did not elaborate on the nature of these operations.
The minister emphasized that a law allowing for the issuance of licenses for the development of military industries had already been adopted by the government in order to “strengthen the independence” of the kingdom in this area, which has been officially adopted this week.
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