V Them OUTLINE
V.1 -To fight against the persistence of the
obstacles
Freedom of movement of the goods and the people does not go
either without problem. According to experts', it is however essential to
advance it for the complete construction and the harmonious operation of the
Common Market. However in the state current of the things, this freedom of
going and coming within Community space is far from being a reality.
Inopportune controls and extortion of moneies constitute as many blockings. In
the same vein it is raised persistence of nontariff obstacles consisting of the
institution of technical standards preventing the importation of Community
products, of the erection of multiple stoppings on the corridors of the Union
or of the requirement of marking of the originating industrial products
approved even when those are accompanied by authentic certificates of
origin.
In addition, force is to note that even if the tce is applied,
tariffs of certain States « always comprise tariff headings in
addition to those of the tce, do not represent all the lines of the tce, assign
to certain products a category different from that fixed in the tce, always
comprise duties and taxes import which do not concern the tce ».
They are there some examples of obstacles to the construction of
the Common Market, objective paramount of the African western Union economic
and monetary and the nearest adoption of the African western single currency.
Brakes which do not have therefore occulting the good points marked in the long
battle for economic integration
In addition, the Union faces a certain recrudescence of
tensions socio-policies which limit the improvement of the macroeconomic
framework and the convergence of the economies of the Union.
Moreover, the study on tax covering in the Member States of the
UEMOA, planned for
to be realized on external financing, could not start, because of
the difficulties of
mobilization of the external resources.
- persistence of nontariff obstacles
It is however necessary to regret, within the framework of
the movement of the goods, persistence
nontariff obstacles such as technical standards imposed on the
products
Community and multiplicity of the stoppings on the corridors of
the Union.
It was also noted the survival of tariff obstacles, such as
certain royalties
perceived only on imported Community products of Member States of
the Union,
whereas the equivalent products locally manufactured are exempted
by it.
Common external tariff
However, on the basis of information received from the States,
the Commission could make the report that the situation noted in 2001 did not
develop. Thus, even if as a whole the Member States implemented the reforms,
one still notes the persistence of the non-application of certain Community
provisions.
Being the obstacles to the trade, in spite of the
application of integral tariff disarmament,
there still remains of the tariff and nontariff obstacles. It is
in particular about the existence of
national standards, of the national certificate of conformity,
the obligation to import one
minimal quantity, of the application of a value of reference to
originating products
On the level of the execution of the activities, it should be
noted that the implementation of
Community legislation of competition was seriously compromised by
three kinds of
difficulties, namely:
- the insufficiency of the administrative organization for the
control of the policy of
compete with;
- the insufficiency of personnel to achieve the tasks in
particular related to the activities
lawful, of investigations, assistance and formation and finally,
co-operation
international;
- inexistence of material of adequate work such as the didactic
material for the formation
agents of the Member States, computer equipement for
investigators, a documentation
specialized as regards competition.
The difficulty in mobilizing the financings envisaged, so much
for the external financings (freezing
priority Mutual aid funds (FSP), sluggishness of the procedures
of the European Union) that
for the own resources, did not allow to reach a high rate of
realization of the actions.
They are primarily the actions programmed on protected financings
(Program
Special Regional for Food Safety (PSRSA), funds FIDA) or retained
like
priority on the clean appropriations, which could be carried out
in the long term.
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