Regulation C/REG.11/12/01 on the Additional List of Enterprises and Products Approved under the ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme

Jurisdiction
African Regional Bodies · Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Date
17 December 2001
Language
English
Type
Legislation
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Economic Community of West African States

Regulation C/REG.11/12/01 on the Additional List of Enterprises and Products Approved under the ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme

The Council of Ministers,MINDFUL of Article 10, 11 and 12 of the Treaty establishing the Council of Ministers and defining its composition and functions;MINDFUL of the Protocol dated 15th November, 1976 defining the concept of products originating from ECOWAS Member States and its subsequent amend­ment actsMINDFUL of Decisions C/DEC.3/6/88 and C/DEC.4/7/92 dated 21st June, 1988 and 25th July, 1992 of the Council of Ministers, defining the procedure for ap­proval of industrial enterprises and products under the ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme,MINDFUL of Decision A/DEC.6/7/92 dated 29 July, 1992 of the Authority of Heads of State and Gov­ernment of ECOWAS on the adoption and imple­mentation of a single Trade Liberalisation Scheme for products originating from Member States of the Community;MINDFUL of Decision A/DEC.4/7/96 dated 27th July, 1996 on the cancellation of the criterion relating to the level of participation of community nationals in the equity capital of enterprises;ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS of the Forty-Sec­ond and Forty-Third Meetings of the Trade, Cus­toms, Taxation, Statistics, Money and Payments Commission held in Abuja from 6th to 7th June and from 26th to 27th November 2001 respectively;

Article 1

The Industrial enterprises and products listed in the attached annex are approved for preferential treatment under the ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme.

Article 2

The Executive Secretariat shall give each enterprise concerned an approval number which must feature on the Certificate of origin and on the ECOWAS Cus­toms Declaration Form and inform Member States accordingly

Article 3

Member States and the Executive Secretariat shall take all necessary measures to ensure the implementation of this Regulation.

Article 4

This Regulation shall be published by the Executive Secretariat in the Official Journal of the Community within (30) days after its signature by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers. It shall also be published by each Member State within the same time frame in its National Gazette.
Done at Dakar, this 17th day of December 2001Bacari KoneChairman for Council
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