A tool for withdrawing the State from the economic sphere, privatisation is a means for
restructuring the economic system.
 
It is also an investment act allowing:   

• The State to be released from the management and financing of non-strategic activities; 
  
• Algeria’s competitive assets to be enhanced;   
  
• New capital and investments to be attracted for upgrading and modernisation;   
  
• A modern management to be promoted by introducing new, efficient management techniques and skills and by developing training;
• The continuity of the activities and businesses to be ensured;   
  
• The maintenance and increase of employment to be ensured, new methods of motivation and staff incentives to be promoted;
  
• Competition to be introduced and promoted, the market opening to be prepared;   
  
• The competitiveness of businesses to be reinforced through cost reduction, increased productivity and improvement of quality; 
  
• New technologies to be welcomed;   
  
• New markets to be opened;  
  
• Exports, excluding hydrocarbons, to be increased.