Regulation C/REG.6/12/95 on the Additional List of Industrial Enterprises and Products Eligible to Benefit from the ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme

Jurisdiction
African Regional Bodies · Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Date
13 December 1995
Language
English
Type
Legislation
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Economic Community of West African States

Regulation C/REG.6/12/95 on the Additional List of Industrial Enterprises and Products Eligible to Benefit from the ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme

The Council of Ministers,MINDFUL of Articles 10, 11 and 12 of the Revised Treaty of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) establishing the Council of Ministers and defining its composition and functions;MINDFUL of the Protocol relating to the definition of the concept of products originating from the Member States of the Economic Community of West African States and of the subsequent Acts and Decisions;MINDFUL of Decisions C/DEC. 3/6/88 dated 21st June, 1988 and C/DEC. 4/7/92 dated 25th July, 1992 of the Council of Ministers defining the procedure for approval of industrial products and enterprises to benefit from the ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme;MINDFUL of Decision A/DEC/6/7/92 dated 29th July, 1992 of the Authority of Heads of State and Government relating to the adoption and implementation of a single trade liberalisation scheme for industrial products originating from Member States of the Community;MINDFUL of Decision C/DEC. 5/7/95 of 27th July, 1995 on the list of enterprises and products approved to benefit from the ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme;ON THE ADVICE of the thirty-fifth meeting of the Trade, Customs, Immigration, Money and Payments Commission held in Lagos from 24th to 27th October, 1995;ENACTS

Article 1

Industrial enterprises and products fulfilling the conditions of the ECOWAS rules of origin, a list of which is attached as an annex to this Regulation, are hereby approved to benefit from the Community Trade Liberalisation Scheme in addition to those contained in Decision C/DEC. 5/7/95 of 27th July, 1995.

Article 2

The Executive Secretariat shall allocate to each of the enterprises concerned an approved number which must feature on the ECOWAS Certificate of Origin and Customs Declaration Form, and inform Member States accordingly.

Article 3

The Member States and the Executive Secretariat shall take all necessary measures to implement this Regulation.

Article 4

This Regulation shall be published in the Official Journal of the Community by the Executive Secretariat within thirty (30) days of its signature by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers.It shall also be published within the same time-frame in the National Gazette of each Member State.This Regulation shall enter into force sixty (60) days after its publication in the Official Journal of the Community.
Done at Abuja, this 13th day of December, 1995Hon. Kwame PeprahChairman, for Council of Ministers
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