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Sultan Haitham bin Tariq issued Royal Decree 39/2026 on 1 March 2026, published in the Sultanate of Oman Official Gazette Issue 1638 on 8 March 2026 (effective the following day), enacting a new Statute of the Public Authority for Special Economic Zones and Free Zones (OPAZ) and consolidating the Public Establishment for Industrial Estates under the unified OPAZ regulatory umbrella. The Statute restructures OPAZ's institutional architecture for administering Oman's 23 special economic zones, free zones, and industrial cities, expands OPAZ's supervisory and oversight powers — including project registration, licensing, permits, approvals, certificates, regulation of municipal services within zones — and mandates a single-window platform consolidating the full suite of zone-related services for investors. The decree is the institutional-governance complement to the substantive SEZ/FZ framework established by Royal Decree 38/2025 and operationalises the Vision 2040 economic-diversification strategy at the binding regulatory-authority layer, covering RO 22.4 bn (~USD 58 bn) in cumulative committed investment across the OPAZ-administered zone network.

On 14 September 2025 the Public Authority for Special Economic Zones and Free Zones (OPAZ) and the Salalah Free Zone signed a usufruct agreement with GFCL EV (SFZ) LLC — the Omani subsidiary of the Anox GFCL group — for the establishment of an OMR 188 million (~USD 488m headline / USD 216m initial) advanced battery-materials plant on a 370,000 m² site in the Dhofar Governorate. The facility will produce lithium iron phosphate cathode-active-material (LFP CAM), ammonium phosphate, iron salts, and carbon materials supporting up to 100 GWh of downstream battery production. The first phase (OMR 73m) is to be commissioned over 4–6 years. The signing is Oman's first downstream LFP-CAM operationalisation under Vision 2040 and lands against the parallel context of 26 upstream mining licences issued by the Ministry of Energy and Minerals (MEM) in 2024 covering chromite, copper, nickel, cobalt, laterite, gypsum, limestone, and construction materials across Dhofar, Al Wusta, North Al Sharqiyah, Al Batinah, and Al Dhahirah.

Sultan Haitham bin Tariq issued Royal Decree 38/2025 on 7 April 2025, published in the Sultanate of Oman Official Gazette on 13 April 2025, enacting a unified statutory framework for Oman's special economic zones (SEZs) and free zones (FZs) under the Public Authority for Special Economic Zones and Free Zones (OPAZ). The law consolidates the previously fragmented regimes governing Duqm SEZ, Salalah Free Zone, Sohar Free Zone, Al Mazunah Free Zone, and Knowledge Oasis Muscat into a single overarching statutory architecture, granting a 10-year corporate income tax exemption (renewable for high-value activities), 100% foreign ownership, full capital and profit repatriation, customs-duty exemptions on construction inputs and operational goods, and a statutory one-stop-shop through OPAZ. The law establishes OPAZ as the consolidated regulatory authority with ring-fenced powers over labour, immigration, customs, environment, and land-use within zone boundaries, and creates a new statutory basis for OPAZ to negotiate sector-specific concessions using usufruct, leasehold, and sub-concession instruments. Royal Decree 38/2025 is the principal Vision 2040 FDI-architecture instrument — the parent statute under which the GFCL Salalah LFP battery-materials usufruct, the Hyport Duqm green-ammonia project, and the Karwa Motors EV-assembly arrangement all operate.

President Luis Abinader signed Decreto No. 324-24 on 13 June 2024, declaring the promotion, innovation, and development of the semiconductor industry in the Dominican Republic as "alta prioridad nacional" (high national priority) and directing MICM to formulate a National Strategy for the Promotion of the Semiconductor Industry (ENFIS). The decree was published in the Official Gazette on 28 June 2024, establishing a high-level inter-ministerial coordination mechanism and linking the initiative to the free-trade-zone incentive framework under Law 8-90. ENFIS was formally launched on 19 August 2025 by President Abinader and MICM Minister Víctor Bisonó at the Día Nacional de las Zonas Francas, structuring the strategy across five pillars: Industrial Development, Governance and Policy, Workforce and Human Capital, Investment Attraction, and Innovation and R&D Ecosystem.

On 23 February 2024 Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly announced at a press conference in the New Administrative Capital that Egypt and an ADQ-led consortium (Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company PJSC, with Modon Properties and Talaat Moustafa Group as development partners) had signed a framework agreement granting ADQ the development rights to Ras El-Hekma — a 170.8 million square-metre Mediterranean coastal site approximately 350 km northwest of Cairo. The USD 35bn package comprises USD 24bn in fresh foreign-currency cash for the development rights (paid in two tranches: USD 15bn within one week, USD 20bn within two months) plus USD 11bn converted from existing UAE deposits at the Central Bank of Egypt into prime-project equity stakes across Egypt. Egypt retains a 35% sovereign stake in the master-developer ("Ras Al Hekma Company"). The deal is the largest single foreign direct investment in Egypt's history; it materially eased Egypt's worst FX crisis in decades and underpinned the IMF's March 2024 USD 8bn Extended Fund Facility top-up and the EUR 7.4bn EU funding package.