PRESIDENTIAL DECREE OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of December 21, 2025 No. 448

About the State program of innovative development of the Republic of Belarus for 2026-2030

For the purpose of increase in competitiveness of national economy taking into account ensuring its innovative development I decide:

1. Approve the State program of innovative development of the Republic of Belarus for 2026-2030 (further – the State program) it (is applied).

2. Determine:

2.1. the responsible customer of the State program the State committee on science and technologies (further respectively – the responsible customer, GKNT);

2.2. customers of the State program the Ministry of Architecture, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, the Industry ministry, the Ministry of Communications and Informatization, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the Ministry of Transport and Communications, the Department of Energy, the State military-industrial committee, the Belarusian state concern of the food industry Belgospishcheprom, the Belarusian state concern on oil and chemistry, the Belarusian state concern on production and sales of goods of light industry, the Belarusian production and trade concern forest, woodworking and pulp and paper industry, National academy of Sciences of Belarus, regional executive committees, the Minsk Gorispolkom, scientific and technological parks (further – science and technology parks), in which authorized fund the ownership ratio of the state and (or) the organizations of republican and (or) municipal patterns of ownership constitutes more than 50 percent, public institution "Administration of the Chinese-Belarusian industrial park "Great Stone" (further – administration of the industrial park "Great Stone"), administrations of free economic zones (further – administrations of SEZ).

The customers of the State program specified in part one of this subitem (further if other is not provided, – customers), within the competence:

perform coordination of activities of contractors of projects and actions of the State program for development of innovative infrastructure (further – actions of the State program), the analysis of target and effective use of the appropriate budgetary funds during implementation of the State program;

quarterly to the 30th following reporting quarter provide information on the course of implementation of the State program on the form determined by GKNT in GKNT.

3. Determine that:

3.1. The state program provides projects implementation, to corresponding priority directions of scientific, scientific and technical and innovative activities, and also actions of the State program.

Drafts of the State program are subdivided into the following types:

republican projects – the innovative projects aimed at providing innovative development of the corresponding industries of economy (types of economic activity), having the determining value for innovative development of the Republic of Belarus which list is determined by Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus;

complex projects – the projects consisting from interconnected (on the purposes, tasks and products) the actions realized in the form of at least two innovative projects and also in need of research, developmental and experienced and technological works (further – NIOK(T)R) on development of appropriate technologies (goods) which realization is provided according to decisions of Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus;

local projects – the innovative projects of the small organizations and subjects of medium business aimed at the development of the corresponding industries of economy (types of economic activity) and (or) regions which list is determined by the responsible customer.

Cannot act as customers:

republican and complex drafts of the State program – science and technology parks, administration of the industrial park "Great Stone", administration of SEZ;

local drafts of the State program – National academy of Sciences of Belarus;

actions of the State program – science and technology parks.

Contractors of drafts of the State program are the legal entities determined as those in lists of republican drafts of the State program and local drafts of the State program, and also in decisions of Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on implementation of complex drafts of the State program.

Contractors of actions of the State program are the subjects of innovative infrastructure determined as those actions of the State program in the list;

3.2. are exempted during project implementation of the State program from import customs duties (taking into account the international obligations of the Republic of Belarus) and the value added tax, the levied by customs authorities, processing equipment, accessories and spare parts to it, the raw materials and materials imported on the territory of the Republic of Belarus for exclusive use in its territory for the purpose of implementation of the corresponding draft of the State program.

Features of release of processing equipment, accessories and spare parts to it, raw materials and materials from import customs duties and the value added tax are determined in appendix;

3.3. from the first day of the first month of the quarter following quarter on which the beginning of accomplishment of project works falls, but not earlier than the quarter following quarter in which the decision of Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on implementation of the complex project is made or the draft of the State program is included in lists of republican drafts of the State program and local drafts of the State program, till December 31 of the year following after year in which the corresponding construction object, the parcels of land (part of the parcel of land) used for construction of the construction objects provided by the draft of the State program is accepted in operation are exempted at the contractor of the draft of the State program from the land tax (except for self-willedally busy parcels of land) and the rent for the parcels of land which are in state-owned property.

The specified privileges are effective including concerning the parcels of land on which there are no capital structures, determined as those by the tax legislation and the legislation on collection of the rent for the parcels of land which are in state-owned property.

The right to privileges provided in part one of this subitem is lost in quarter in which there was termination of project implementation of the State program on the bases other, than completion of its realization within the period established by the scheduled plan of projects implementation of the State program;

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