IV-4 : Implementation of the sectoral policies
The sectoral policies provided for in the Treaty translate
the will of the Authorities of
union to ensure the conditions of a balanced and durable
development of the States
members. The adopted Community policies relate to them
specifically
fields of industry, the mines, the craft industry, transport,
agriculture, of
the energy and of the Community regional planning. Their
implementation
be carried out gradually in dialog with the Member States.
Because of extended from the field which the whole of the
projects and programs covers
Community elaborate starting from these common policies, only
programs
integrators and of which feasibility is proven are retained with
the Economic Program
Regional for financing.
it political common mine
The common mining policy according to the additional Act N°
01/2000 of December 2000
lay down the general objectives of the mining industrial policy,
under the terms of which the industrial and mining policy will aim:
- the emergence of powerful companies, including Community, ready
to satisfy competitive conditions the domestic demand, to face international
competition and to support the social progress;
it valorization of the
resources agricultural, pastoral, halieutics and mines of the States of the
Union;
- intensification of the intersector trade flows;
- harmonization
of the lawful executives of the industrial activities and mining, in particular
development of a Community code of the investments;
it economic and social
development balanced various areas of the Union.
it diversification of the mining production, the transformation
on the spot of the mineral substances
To achieve its goals, the Common Mining Policy is articulated
around the following programs:
- harmonization of the lawful executives;
it promotion of the
mining sector;
installation it of a sous-régional system of
information géominières;
it reinforcement of the capacities of
the institutional structures and scientific research;
it development of the
intra-African exchanges of mining products;
it safeguarding of the
environment;
- the incentive with the research and the exploitation of
hydrocarbons.
- the acceleration of the development of the mineral substances,
the creation and reinforcement of local industries of transformation;
- the emergence of powerful and competitive local companies
private;
- the access to the financing to accelerate the mining development
in the Union;
The development of the Community Mining Code and the creation
of an Information system Géominières (SIG-UEMOA) are at present
on the agenda.
This device will make it possible to create a mining observatory
for the Member States of the UEMOA.
- The agricultural policy of the Union (PAU)
Adopted in December 2001, the agricultural policy of the Union
leaves the report of the strategic place of the agricultural sector in the
economy of the State members of the Union and the fundamental role which is
assigned to him to nourish the populations and to reduce poverty in
rural medium.
Need for promoting within the Member States a durable agriculture
more
productive and more competitive, allowing to improve food safety
of the populations, by an adequate degree of self-sufficiency, and to raise the
standard of living of the farmers and their incomes; to reconquer the domestic
market and to insert the large dies of production in the world market, by
improving their competitiveness vis-a-vis competition of third countries,
in order to reduce poverty and the food dependence in the Union
and its Member States the adoption of PAU justified.
The Agricultural Policy of the Union covers the whole of the
activities of agriculture, the forestry, the breeding and fishing. It applies
to all the agricultural produce, definite in the broad sense as being the whole
of the products resulting directly from these activities and those resulting
from a transformation essential to a first use
The Agricultural Policy of the Union aims to contribute, in a
durable way, with the satisfaction of the food needs for the population, with
the economic and social development of the Member States and with the reduction
of poverty, while allowing:
- to carry out food safety, by reducing the food dependence of
the Union and by improving operation of the markets of the agricultural
produce;
- to improve the living conditions of the agricultural producers,
by developing the rural economy and by revalorizing their income and their
social status.
The Regional Special Program for Food Safety (PSRSA) in
the Member States of UEMOA (PSRSA) financed with height of 84
million US dollars, is nearly 60 billion F CFA was concretized by the following
activities the realization of four studies to the tax, tariff and non-tariff
measures,
governing the production and the marketing of the agricultural
produce, the legislations plant health, the zoo-medical legislations and the
evaluation of the legal and institutional framework of the medical safety of
food and food control.
The degraded situation of the market of cotton involved a strong
mobilization of certain cotton producing States of the area, which led the
Commission of the UEMOA to organize in June 2003, in Ouagadougou, a ministerial
meeting of regional dialog on the difficulties of the die cotton in zone
UEMOA.
The Benign one, Burkina, Mali, and with a degree the less Ivory
Coast and Senegal are among the largest African cotton producers.
The question of cotton will have to materialize before 2005 by
the creation of Funds of rescue of cotton by the Union with the support has
BOAD.
Program it Energy Community (PEC)
The Commission of the UEMOA carried out, during the year 1996, of
the investigations near the principal actors of the energy sector in the seven
Member States of the Union in order to work out the draft of a Community Energy
Program.
The first Council of Ministers, in charge of the Energy of the
Member States of the UEMOA, met in April 1997 in Bamako (Mali) adopted a
Community Energy Program (PEC) articulating itself around the following axes:
- harmonization of the legislative and lawful executives
governing the energy sector in order to achieve the goals of the Union, in
particular competitiveness unification of national spaces;
installation it
of a planning system energy integrated, essential tool for the definition of a
common energy policy;
- the acceleration of the interconnection of the
electrical supply networks which is an at the same time economic and political
stake;
it promotion of New and Renewable Energies which must be a lever of
our economic and social development;
- the rational use of energy;
it
rationalization of the consumption of energy drawn from the biomass;
installation it of a Community system of procurement of oil products
liquidate and gas;
it change in the modes of production and consumption of
energy and the introduction of corrective measurements into the strategies for
the safeguarding of the environment and a durable development;
- improvement of the business management of the sector as well as
the organisational systems to support the access to the money markets.
Each State appointed the National Correspondent of the PEC which
is the focal point of the ad hoc Committee controlled by the country, as well
as the experts of their spring for the various committees.
Thus, the drafts of terms of reference for the whole of the
short-term actions were elaborate.
Reacting vis-a-vis the energy crisis which marked the
under-sector of electricity in the majority of the Member States, the
Commission organized in 1998, a circular mission of dialog with the persons in
charge for the sector in the States for the extraordinary meeting holding of
the Ministers in charge of Energy.
In 2002, the Union adopted Terms of Reference for:
- the study of supply hydrocarbons of the Member States of the
UEMOA;
- the study of the possibilities of development of the rural
electrification in the Member States of the UEMOA;
- the study of the
Community strategy of promotion of New and Renewable Energies - the study of
the revival of the Regional Center of Solar energy of Bamako;
installation
it of an energy planning system integrated;
- the study of the Community
strategy of domestic energies.
- Common Industrial Policy (PEAK)
A document entitled «project of orientation for the
definition of a Common Industrial Policy within the UEMOA» was prepared.
On the basis of this document, the process of definition of the
Common Industrial Policy (PEAK) was launched. The first stage already carried
out was the organization of a sous-régional workshop. This workshop made
it possible to define the strategic priorities of the Union as regards Common
Industrial Policy.
The directing axes of this policy were thus stopped:
it common vision of the industrial future of the under-area is
founded on the hope that in the long run, the Convention countries will be able
to become together «significant actors of universalization» through a
durable industrial development;
compete with it: as regards
«competition», it is a question of fully exploiting the impulse given
by the establishment of a regional Common Market to create a climate favorable
to free plan of a fair competition;
- solidarity: the
UEMOA includes/understands eight country whose industrial development is
unequal. It is appropriate thus that are set up of the instruments of special
actions in favor of the most underprivileged countries. These instruments could
be in particular programs of infrastructures. Also «the policy of
solidarity» must it be based on a policy of regional planning;
- co-operation: it is based on the fact that the States
and the companies must cooperate with the installation of effective
institutions and modern mechanisms of information allowing to gather and
diffuse the economic situation, technological and commercial which our
operators need to seize new opportunities, to improve their products and to
reinforce their competitiveness. It must stimulate partnerships between
economic operators and facilitate trade agreements and financial with other
African companies, the multinationals operating in Africa and foreign
investors. It must also contribute to improve the international image of the
countries of the UEMOA.
- The shutter promotion of quality
In order to facilitate the regional integration of the UEMOA and
to contribute to the integration of
under-area in the world economy in full change, it is essential
to cause
near the economic actors a major passion for the quality of their
services and
products, obligatory way for a successful access of the African
economies to the markets
international increasingly competing and demanding.
This ambition imposes vast programs of sensitizing on the modern
concepts of
management and of the quality control at the place of the
economic actors, like one
reinforcement of the national and regional infrastructures of
support to quality.
The activities led as regards promotion of quality related to the
reinforcement of
national structures of support and formation of competences in
program quality
(consultants, listeners, persons in charge in companies, actors
of the movements and associations
consumers...).
The purpose of the formations are to place a pool of expertise in
quality at the disposal:
- companies in order to accompany them and to assist them in
their step of certification
ISO 9000;
- organizations certifiers so that they have national competences
able of
to lead to certification the companies according to the reference
frame ISO 9000 relating to the systems
of quality assurance.
The major objective of the Program in the Accréditation
shutter is the creation of the Secretariat
Regional of Accreditation (SRA). The Commission, with the
technical support of the ONUDI, works for the progressive installation of the
SRA. For this purpose, of the contacts were
benches with international organizations of accreditation (ILAC
«International Laboratory
Accreditation Corporation «and International IAF
«Accreditation Forum») at the time of
General assemblies annual behaviors in September 2002 in Berlin
in Germany and
September 2003 in Bratislava as Slovakia.
An Agreement was concluded between the UEMOA and the French
Committee from Accreditation (COFRAC) and
will lead to the delivery of joint accreditations SRA/COFRAC,
which would allow one
immediate recognition of accreditations SRA on a world level. The
signature of
the Agreement was reached in November 2003 with the seat of the
Bodies with Ouagadougou.
In a specific way, the subroutine relating to «the promotion
of exports» is in
part taken of load by the «program of installation of a
system of accreditation, of
standardization and of promotion of Quality «.
- Craft industry
The Conference of the Heads of State and Government of the UEMOA
adopted on December 19
2001, the Additional Act instituting the craft industry among the
sectoral policies of the Union. One
Recommendation relating to the implementation of the Community
matter Program
of Craft industry (PCA) was also taken by the statutory Council
of Ministers. The activities devoted to the implementation of the PCA, concern
in particular:
it development of suitable mechanisms of financing;
it sales promotion of the products of the craft industry;
- the installation of a sous-régional information system
on the craft industry;
- harmonization of the lawful executives of the activities of the
craft industry.
Moreover, an agreement of association between the UEMOA and the
Republic of Guinea in
field of the craft industry was finalized in 2003.
Other cooperation agreements are being negotiated with in
particular UNESCO, the Intergovernmental Agency of the Francophonie (AIFF) and
the Center International Trade (CCI).
The Commission of the UEMOA requested the
contest of the Center of International Trade
(CCI) for the realization of a study on the development and the
promotion of exports
products of the craft industry.
Actions of financing were brought near the Commission of the
Union
European and of the Intergovernmental Agency of Francophonie
(AIFF) for
the organization of a workshop of validation of this study.
The Commission of the UEMOA granted a subsidy to the organization
of the Living room
International of the Craft industry for Woman (SAFEM) of Niger,
in the form of «price UEMOA» to allot to women artisanes amenable to
the Member States of the Union.
The Commission of the UEMOA collaborates with the International
Labor Office (the ILO) for
installation of a sous-régional information system on the
craft industry. Actions are in
run in the Member States, in particular with regard to the
purchase of equipment
data processing, the constitution of data banks and the
installation of committees charged
animation of the network at the national level. It is within this
framework that the ILO equipped Burkina
Faso, Mali, Niger and computer equipement Senegal of. An action
was brought
near the European Commission for the financing of a study on the
evaluation of
information system under regional on the craft industry.
The harmonization of the lawful executives of the activities of
the craft industry will be finalized with creation in 2005 of the Priority
Mutual aid funds (FSP) financed by the French Ministry of the Foreign Affairs.
it transport
The road Program 1 (PR-1) relates to the actions relating to work
of rehabilitation to
to carry out to the Bamako-Ouagadougou-Accra corridor and the
actions and measures of facilitation of
transport and of the transit truck drivers on the corridors
Bamako-Ouagadougou-Accra and Niamey-
Ouagadougou-Accra.
This program covers 1.050 km of roads of which 900 km are
concerned with the financing
FAD, already acquired. It will allow the construction of two
checkpoints juxtaposed the borders between Mali and Burkina Faso (axis
Kolo-Hèremankono) and between Ghana and Burkina Faso (axis Paga-Po). It
will be financed by the FAD through its resources for the operations in
multinational matter and other backers, in particular the BOAD, the European
Union, the IDA, Danish Development Agency (DANIDA) and the three countries
concerned (Burkina, Ghana and Mali).
Estimated cost HT of the whole of program PR-1 rises to 150
billion F CFA.
In the field of air transports, the process of creation of Funds
of
development of Air transport (FTA) is being prepared advanced;
the texts y
relating will be presented for validation to the sectoral experts
and the Council of Ministers
responsible for Transport and with the statutory Council from
here the end of 2005.
- Arts, culture and new technologies
By decision No 0180/2003/P.COM/UEMOA of 28 February 2003, bearing
creation and
organization of the Commission departments of the UEMOA, it was
created within
Department of the Social Development, a Direction of Arts,
Culture and News
Technologies. The Commission thus materializes its will to take
into account dimension
cultural of the regional development and guard with the spirit
economic stakes related to
promotion of these three fields of sectoral policies. The new
direction is in the train
to gradually set up itself with the recruitment of a Senior staff
charged with
Cultural affairs in 2003.
Other adopted texts gave a blow of accelerator to the
sectoral policies. One can quote :
- adoption of a common program of the infrastructures and road
transport
UEMOA, which made it possible to mobilize 484 additional billion
F CFA for the financing of the foreground program 2002-2007;
- adoption of a Community action plan on the promotion of the
generic essential drugs and the improved traditional drugs, the local
manufacture of essential drugs and the quality control, to improve the
accessibility of the populations of the Union to care of quality;
- adoption of an action plan for the installation of a system
under regional
of information on employment and the formation;
it launching of a programme of support for the formation and
research with 64
recipients of the eight Member States for one academic year and
this, since 2001.
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