Written By Mary Mumbua 📝
The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) has organized a stakeholder sensitization workshop to address the strengthening of the Common Market Protocol (CMP), which intends to decrease the negative benefits of COVID-19.
The program, which is scheduled to run from April 3rd to April 8th, 2022, will include a variety of stakeholders such as business associations, the banking sector, regulatory agencies, and government authorities.
According to a press release, CMP, which anticipates four freedoms of production elements and two rights, is required to improve cross-border infrastructure to improve the convenience of doing business.
“The principles of the EAC Common Market include free movement of goods, persons/labour/workers, services, capital and right to establishment and residence.”
“The sensitization shall focus on customs, agriculture and food security, energy and trade. Others are health, immigration and labour, culture, tourism and natural resources, as well as investment promotion and private sector development.” read part of the statement.
Furthermore, with the implementation of CMP in 2010, partner countries have benefited from a legal framework that allows for labor movement, with Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda already adopting machine-readable passports and IDs that fulfill International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) requirements.
Besides, the region will address some of the challenges that are hampering CMP implementation, such as partner states’ that slow the ratification of EAC laws and procedures, backtracking on commitments for unknown reasons or under the false illusion of national laws, and the systematic enforcement of stringent and ambiguous regulation.
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