Regional
Legal texts relating to the monitoring of rice tender, support programs for animal diseases, food security program and the support to rice development association
Agriculture Products or Group Products
- C:DEC.16/12/90 DECISION to monitor inter state technical committee to monitor price tender for a specific agricultural products
Animal Diseases
- C:DEC.7/6/89 DECISION on the support programme for development of agricultural products
ECOST and Rice Grain
- C:REG.18/12/13 REGULATION approving harmonised standard of ECOSTAND for rice grain
Food and Security
West African Rice Development
Legal texts governing ECOWAS’ Trade liberalization Scheme (ETLS) which sets the region as a free trade area.
Also, captured here are texts relating to Market Liberalization Rules, and Rules of Origin.
Trade Liberalization Scheme
- A/DEC.17:6:80 Decision on assessment of loss of revenue of Member States
- A/EC.19:5:79 DECISION on compensation budget for projected loss of revenue by member state as a result of ETLS in industrial product originated from ECOWAS Member State
- A/DEC.1:11:84 DECISION on a single trade liberalisation scheme for industrial products originating from Member States.
- C/REG.10:12:10:01 REGULATION on additional list of enterprises and product aproved under the ETLS
- C/DEC.15:6:89 DECISION on allocation of numbers to enterprises and industrial product approved to benefit from ECOWAS ETLS
- A/SP1:12:03 SUPPLEMENTARY PROTOCOL on application of compensation procedure for loss of revenue
- A/REC.4:7:96 RECOMMENDATION relating to base rate for tariff reduction programme envisege for under the ETLS
- C/REC.5:7:96 RECOMMENDATION on the cancellation of the level of participation of community national equity capitalwishing to benefit from the etls
- A/DEC.8:12:92 DECISION ON compensation budget estimate for projected customs revenue by member states as aresult of ETLS
- A/DEC.1:5:83 DECISION on implementation of a single ETLS for industrial products originating from member states
- A:DEC.6:7:92 DECISION on list of industrial enterprises and product eligible to benefit from ETLS
- C:DEC:4:5:80 DECISION Relating to studies emanating from trade liberalisations scheme
- A:REG.4:7:96 REGULATION on list of industrial enterprises and product approved to benefit from ETLS
- C:REC.4:7:96 RECOMMENDATION on base rate for teriff reduction programme envisege for under the ETLS
- A:DEC 1:5:81 TRADE LIBERALISATION in respect of traditional handi-craft
- C:REG. 5:12:95 REGULATION withdrawing the approval to benefit from the ETLS ranted to industrial products and enterprises
Certificate of Origin
- A:SP3:5:80 PROTOCOL amending vii of French text on the concept of product originating from member states
- C:REG.4:4:02 REGULATION on certificate of origin for products of ECOWAS origin
- A:SP:1:5:81 SUPPLEMENTARY PROTOCOL defining the concept of product originating from member states
The Treaty forming the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was signed on 28 May 1975 and revised in 1993. The ECOWAS Treaty is also referred to as the Lagos Treaty because it was signed in Lagos
Common External Tariff and its application makes ECOWAS a Customs Union.
Captured here are legal texts relating to Customs Declaration Forms, Import Duty, Customs Valuation, and ECOWAS Customs Code.
Also captured are Anti-dumping, Countervailing and Safeguard legal texts
Customs declaration form
Import duty
- C:DIR.2:06:09 DIRECTIVE on ECOWAS Member State Legislations on Excise Duties Harmonisation
- DEC 8:5:79 DECISION on the consolidation of import duties and non-tariff barriers
- C:REG.05:06:13 REGULATIONS on the imposition of countervailing duties
- C:REG.3:06:13 REGULATION on procedure applicable to goods heavily taxed
Non-tariff barriers
- C:DEC4:5:82 DECISION on definition of nomenclature of non tariff bearer which must be eliminated at the discretion of the Member State within a period of 4 years
Customs value of product
ECOWAS Common External Tariff
- A:DEC.17:1:06 DECISION Adopting the Common External Tariff
- A:DEC.14:01:06 DECISION on the creation, orgaisation and functioning of the ECOWAS UEMOA JOINT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE on ECOWAS Common External Tariff
Tax and value added
- A:P2:7:96 PROTOCOL establishing the PROTOCOL Value Added Tax
- C:DIR.1:05:09 DIRETIVE on harmonization of ECOWAS Member States’ Legislations on Value Added Tax VAT
- C:RES 3:6:89 RESOLUTION on the consolidation of customs duties and taxes of equivalent effect and non tariff barriers
- C:DIR.1:12:13 DIRECTIVE Adopting the ECOWAS-Tax-Transition-Programme
Customs Code
- C:REG.1:05:09 REGULATION relating to 2007 version of nomenclature of the harmonised commodity desciption and coding system
- C:REG.1:06:13 REGULATION defining the categories of product contained in the ECOWAS tariff and statistical nomenclature
- C:DEC.3:7:93 DECISION adopting a common customs nomenclature based on the harmonised commodity descriptionand codification system
- C:REG.29:12:13 REGULATION on ECOWAS regional economic activities and products nomenclature
Import Dumped from Non-ECOWAS
Safeguard measures
- C:REG.4:06:13 REGULATION relating to safeguard measures
Rules governing healthy competition in the region and the establishment and operationalization of the ECOWAS Regional Competition Authority in Banjul, The Gambia
ECOWAS Regional Competition Authority (ERCA)
- AC:REC.6:06:13 RECOMMENDATION amending A:SA.2:12:08 on the establisment of function and operation of Competition Authority in ECOWAS Member States
- A:SA.1:12:08 SUPPLEMENTARY ACT adopting community competition rules
- A:SA.2:12:08 SUPPLEMENTARY ACT on the Establishment of the Functions and Operation of the REGIONAL COMPETITION AUTHORITY for ECOWAS
Relating to the amendment of the Free Movement Protocol and associated Code of Conduct on implementing the Free Movement Protocols and National Monitoring Structures for the implementation of the Free Movement Protocols.
The establishment of the ECOWAS Travel Certificate
Free Movement of Persons, Rights of Entry and Establishment
- A:SP1/6/89 SUPPL. PROTOCOL amending the protocol on free movement, right of residence establishment
- A:SP.1/7/85 SUPPL. PROTOCOL on the code of conduct for the implementation of the protocol on free movement of persons, the right of residence and establishment
- REG.28/12/06 REGULATION establishing national monitoring structures on free movement of person on the high way and borders within ECOWAS region
- C:RES.2/5/90 RESOLUTION on the adoption of draft suppl. protocol on the implemetation of third phase (right of establishment ) of the protocol on free movement
- A:DEC.5/7/92 DECISION on the minimum agenda for action on free movement
Travel Certificate