Dealing with Construction Permits in
Mali
Listed below is detailed summary of the procedures, time and costs to build a warehouse —including obtaining necessary licenses and permits, completing required notifications and inspections and obtaining utility connections.
The information appearing on this page was collected as part of the Doing Business project, which measures and compares regulations relevant to the life cycle of a small- to medium-sized domestic business in 183 economies. The most recent round of data collection for the project was completed in June 2011.
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Building a warehouse
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Estimated Warehouse Value:
XOF 215,701,284
- City: Bamako
| No. |
Procedure |
Time to Complete |
Associated Costs |
| 1 |
Obtain an attestation of ownership or a copy of the land title from the Lands Registry (Services des Domaines de l’état).
Agency: Department of Lands (Direction des services de l’état)
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1 day
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XOF 2,500
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| 2 |
Submit a notice to National Department of Environment and Hygiene outlining the potential hazards of the project on the environment
Agency: National Department of Environment and Hygiene
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15 days
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no charge
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| 3 |
Receive Inspection by the National Department of Environment and Hygiene
Agency: National Department of Environment and Hygiene
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1 day
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no charge
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| 4 |
Obtain geo-technical survey of the site
The geotechnical survey is necessary for establishing the cost of the new structure. 2 public agencies (CNR and ENI) and 1 private company (LABOGEC) carry out the geotechnical survey. The survey is done by digging 6 wells in the plot construction. On average, each well will cost 70,000 fcfa. An additional 50,000 fcfa will be changed for the report.
Agency: Private laboratory
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70 days
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XOF 470,000
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| 5 |
Apply and Obtain building permit
The application for a building permit will be filed at the municipal office with jurisdiction for the construction area (Bamako District for this case). In this office and urbanisme agent receives, verifies that the documents are complete and charges a processing fee (frais de depot) of XOF 50,000. This officer will subsequently issue a receipt indicating the day the permit will be ready and the fees that should be paid for the certificate (frais d'instruction). This same agent has to 3 days to transmit the application documents to Ministry of Urbanisme. The Ministry upon reception has also 3 days to transmit the documents to the other agencies involved. A week after, the agencies will meet with their comments on the documents in their possession. The Ministry will then take 3 additional days to send the file back to the municipal office, who will issue the final decision. If by any reason all the documents needed are not in the file, de urbanisme agent would not receive it, and will ask the person to complete them and come back.
If there is no response in this time deadline the person can file a complaint and the municipal authority has 8 days to answer. If there is no response in this time the permit is understand as approved.
Agency: City Hall of the Commune; National Department of Urban Planning (Mairie de la Commune, Direction Nationale de l’Urbanisme)
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19 days
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XOF 50,000
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| 6 |
Receive inspection from Regional Urban Planning Department
Officials of the Urban Planning Department are always on patrol to check projects without building permits. The possibility of receiving an inspection is noted in the authorisation letter of the building permit, but this are practised randomly. There are foundation, elevation and cover inspections. Therefore, a construction like the one in the case study would receive at least one such inspection whereby officials of the Regional Urban Planning Department would check whether or not the company has a building permit.
Given the silence is consent rule, some companies begin construction without the building permit. In such cases, these companies provide the inspectors with a receipt obtained from the Urban Planning Department at the moment of application. There are three inspector's brigades available at Bamako.
Agency: Regional Urban Planning Department
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1 day
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no charge
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| 7 |
Receive inspection from Regional Urban Planning Department
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1 day
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no charge
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| 8 |
Obtain Certificate of General Compliance
Agency: City Hall of the Commune; National Department of Urban Planning (Mairie de la Commune, Direction Nationale de l’Urbanisme)
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15 days
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no charge
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| 9 |
Apply for connection to water mains
Agency: Energie et eaux du Mali - EDM
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1 day
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no charge
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| 10 |
Connect to water mains
Agency: Energie et eaux du Mali - EDM
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35 days
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XOF 700,000
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| 11 |
Obtain telephone connection
Agency: SOTELMA
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20 days
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XOF 38,650
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