Lowering Entry Threshold for Industrial Complexes through Negative Regulation System and Sector-Specific Exception Districts

Gyeonggi Province is undertaking institutional improvements to expand the types of businesses that can enter industrial complexes in order to reduce unsold properties and activate corporate investment attraction.

Gyeonggi Province is implementing industrial complex occupancy activation measures for Gyeonggi Province that expand the utilization of current systems including negative regulation, sector-specific exception districts, and integrated sector placement, taking into account each industrial complex's development purpose and corporate demand.

Considering the difficulty in responding to new occupancy demand with only the target industries and sector placement plans set at the time of industrial complex development, it was decided to adjust constraints on eligible business types and locations according to conditions specific to each industrial complex.

The negative regulation system is a method that designates restricted business types unsuitable for the location and broadly permits entry of other business types. The sector-specific exception district system designates a portion of an industrial facility zone as a separate district and allows entry of various industries except for those restricted by law.

Integrated sector placement is a method of arranging two or more business types together in zones, blocks, and individual plots, reducing constraints in placement plans that limit one business type per specific plot and broadening the range of location options available to companies for entry.

Gyeonggi Province plans not to apply uniformly across industrial complexes but to provide support for determining whether and to what extent to apply the system through comprehensive review of development purpose, specialized industries, sales status, changes in industrial structure, and infrastructure capacity.

Lee Min-woo, Director of the Industrial Site Division of Gyeonggi Province, said, "We will support cities and counties and managing agencies in actively responding to changes in industrial structure and new occupancy demand through necessary plan establishment and amendments."