Mining (Local Content) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

The Mining (Local Content) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 were published on 12 September 2025 and amend various regulations under the Mining (Local Content) Regulation 2018 as follows (key highlights):

1. Non-indigenous / foreign owned company which seeks to supply goods or services to a contractor, subcontractor, licensee, or a government corporation in Tanzania shall establish a joint venture with an existing indigenous Tanzanian company that is 100% / wholly owned by Tanzanian citizens and operates within the same line of business as the goods or services to be supplied, provided that the indigenous Tanzanian company shall hold a minimum 20% equity participation on the joint venture company, unless the goods and services are listed as exemptions in Regulation 13A (Regulation 8(6)).
2. Mining Commission must publish (A) in the Gazette, (B) on the Commission’s website and (C) in media of nationwide circulation, a list of goods and services that are exclusively to be provided by an indigenous Tanzanian company that is 100 percent owned by Tanzanians (New Regulation 13A).
3. A contractor, subcontractor, licensee or other allied entity shall before the commencement of mining activities submit a joint venture agreement to the Mining Commission for approval (Regulation 8(7)) specifying:
   1. role and responsibilities of the indigenous Tanzanian company.
   2. shareholders and share participation of the indigenous Tanzanian company.
   3. strategy for transfer of technology and know-how to the indigenous Tanzanian company.
4. New Regulation 11(8) on deemed approval so that if the Mining Commission fails to notify the applicant of its approval or otherwise of a revised local content plan, the revised local content plan shall be deemed to have been approved upon expiry of 50 working days of its submission (Regulation 11(8)).
5. Addition of banking services sub-plan and procurement sub-plan as required sub-plans of the local content plan (Regulation 12(3)(e & f)).
6. Threshold for notification of proposed contract or purchase order for sole sourced mining activities to be estimated value over TZS equivalent of USD 10,000 (Regulation 16(1)(a)).
7. “Tanzanian Financial Institution” means “a financial institution which is registered in Tanzania under the Banking and Financial Institutions Act (Regulation 3).
8. Director of the Mineral Audit and Trading Department from the Mining Commission added as member of the Local Content Committee. (Regulation 5(2)(i)).

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