L'harmonisation du droit des affaires en afrique :
SUMMARY AFRICAN HARMONIZATION OF BUSINESS LAW : TEN YEARS OF EXPERIENCE OF OHADA This article presents an assessment of ten years implementation of the African Harmonization of Business Law Treaty of 1993. The aim of the Treaty is to create a united economic zone in francophone Africa, especial...
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| Zusammenfassung: | SUMMARY AFRICAN HARMONIZATION
OF BUSINESS LAW : TEN YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
OF OHADA
This article presents an assessment of ten years implementation of the African
Harmonization of Business Law Treaty of 1993. The aim of the Treaty is to create a
united economic zone in francophone Africa, especially in order to invite foreign
investments.
In a first part, the author describes the system from an institutional point of view and
from a normative point of view. From an institutional point of view, two main
institutions were set up, a Council of Ministers and a Common Court of Justice and
Arbitration. A Permanent Secretary is in charge of assisting the Council. A Regional
High School for Judges was also created. From a normative point of view, and in
order to progressively unify national business legislation, the Council is competent
to adopt ‘uniform acts’ (actes uniformes). Those acts do not need to be nationally
implemented in order to come into force in the member States, but have some sort of
direct effect. They also logically take precedence over national legislation.
It may be said that a whole new legal system had been put into life within ten years
time.
But the author acknowledges that there is still a lot to do to achieve the ambitious aim
of the 1993 Treaty. Existing bodies need to be reinforced and to work on a more
rational base. Both the Council of Ministers and the Member States have to ensure
broader public acceptance of the uniform acts in force. Arbitration should be
developed, and relationships with economic trans-national organisations operating
in the zone need to be clarified. As features of criminal law of the new uniform
business law are still lacking or underdeveloped, another effort has to be made in this
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