The Government will no longer entertain pleas to exempt foreign workers and professionals from paying special fees on the ground that they are employed at “large national projects and buildings and constructions programs”. The provision was adopted in 2001, when the situation was very different from the present. Now that large programs have become quite common, the Government feels employers’ recourse to the provision has been standing in the way of enforcing the national policy on reducing the number of foreign workers to offer more opportunities to Mongolians, particularly in enterprises with foreign investment.