The opposition party in Myanmar, also known as Burma, has been given official permission by the government to re-register, paving the way for it to rejoin the political system.
The party led by Aung San Suu Kyi was declared illegal after it boycotted last year's election.
A brief announcement in the official New Light of Burma newspaper on Tuesday said that the election commission had approved the NLD's application to re-register as a political party.
Suu Kyi has said she will take part in by-elections expected early next year, although no date has been set.
She was visited by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this month.
On Monday, the NLD said it had chosen the image of a fighting peacock gazing at a white star as its new symbol, replacing its previous symbol of a bamboo hat.
Suu Kyi's party won a poll in 1990, but was never allowed by the generals to take power.
The November 2010 election was the first in two decades.
