3. For the purposes of this Chapter, Member States shall cooperate in accordance with Protocol IX attached hereto.
Article 44.
To implement the cooperation activities provided for in Article 43 above and to improve the efficiency of services, the Secretary-General shall make proposals to the Council for the implementation of this common agricultural policy.
Chapter VIII. Cooperation In Industry
Article 45.
1. In order to integrate their economies, Member States shall harmonize their industrialization policies in the sub-region.
2. Accordingly, they shall:
a) inform the General Secretariat of their development plans and corresponding implementation programmes with a view to the preparation of outline programmes for the harmonious development of the sub-region;
b) exchange information on any industrial project to be set up in the sub-region;
c) exchange experiences in industrial matters;
d) exchange experts and information on industrial, commercial and technological research.
Article 46.
1. To achieve rational and harmonious industrial development, Member States shall:
a) harmonize measures for stimulating industrial development by gradually establishing a homogenous industrial environment in the sub-region, inter alia by the preparation of a common investment code;
b) promote the establishment of large industrial units of a Community character and of an industrial development center;
c) allocate Community projects in a balanced and harmonious manner among all Member States;
d) forbid the establishment of national industries which might compete with Community industries satisfactorily meeting the needs of Member States of the Community;
e) establish sub-regional training and further training centers at all levels of skill to satisfy their personal requirements in industry, trade and technology.
2. For the purposes of this Chapter, Member States shall cooperate under Protocol X attached hereto.
Chapter IX. Cooperation In Infrastructure and Equipment, Transport and Communications
Article 47.
1. To achieve a harmonious and integrated development of the sub-regional transport and communications network and to progressively prepare a joint policy, Member States shall:
a) promote the integration of transport and communications infrastructures;
b) coordinate the various modes of transport in order to increase their efficiency;
c) progressively harmonize their transport and communications laws and regulations;
d) encourage the use of local material and human resources, the standardization of networks and equipment, the investigation and popularization of infrastructural construction techniques and of adapted equipment and materials;
e) expand and modernize transport and communications infrastructures by mobilizing the necessary technological and financial resources;
f) promote sub-regional industry in the field of transport and communications equipment;
g) organize, structure and promote the sub-regional sector of passenger and goods transport activities.
2. Accordingly, Member States shall:
a) prepare coordinated programmes for structuring the road transport sector;
b) prepare plans for improving and reorganizing the different railways systems of Member States with a view to their interconnection, and construct new railways;
c) harmonize:
- Their international sea and river transport policies;
- Their air transport policies;
- Their work on the training and further training of specialist cadres in transport and communications;
d) modernize and standardize their equipment in order that all Member States may be linked with one another and with the exterior by scheduled flights.
Article 48.
Member States shall make every effort to establish Community maritime, river and air transport companies.
Article 49. Posts and Telecommunications
Member States shall:
- Reorganize, modernize and develop their telecommunications systems, in order to meet the requirements of international traffic and to provide reliable interconnection between Member States;
- Establish as soon as possible a regional satellite communications system to supplement the Pan-African Telecommunications Network in Central Africa;
- Provide rapid and frequent postal services within the Community and develop close collaboration between postal services.
Article 50.
For the purposes of this Chapter, Member States shall cooperate in accordance with Protocol XI attached hereto.
Chapter X. Cooperation In Science and Technology
Article 51.
1. Member States shall:
a) develop an adequate scientific and technological base capable of bringing about the socio-economic changes needed to improve the quality of life of their populations, particularly rural populations;
b) ensure the proper application of science and technology to the development of agriculture, transport and communications, industry, health and hygiene, energy, education and manpower and the conservation of the environment;
c) reduce their dependence and promote their individual and collective technological reliance by seeking a favourable socio-economic balance between foreign and local technological contributions.
2. In the implementation of this cooperation, Member States shall:
a) harmonize their national policies on scientific and technical research with a view to improving their integration at national levels of economic and social development;
b) coordinate their applied research, research and development and scientific and technical services programmes;
c) harmonize their national technological development plans by placing special emphasis on local technologies and their regulations governing industrial property and the transfer of foreign technologies;
d) coordinate their positions on all scientific and technical questions forming the subject of international negotiations;
e) carry out a permanent exchange of information and documentation and establish Community data networks and data banks;
f) develop joint programmes for training scientific and technological cadres including the training and further training of skilled manpower;
g) promote exchanges of researchers and specialists between Member States in order to make full use of the technical skills available in the Community;
Article 52.
1. Member States shall take all the necessary measures to prepare and implement a joint scientific research and technological development programme.
2. The General Secretariat shall therefore undertake jointly with the competent national and sub-regional bodies the technical studies needed to define priority sectors and activities of common interest and shall submit its findings to the Council.
Article 53.
For the purposes of this Chapter, Member States cooperate in accordance with Protocol XII attached hereto.
Chapter XI. Cooperation In Energy and Natural Resources
Article 54.
1. Member States shall:
a) rapidly increase the Communitys energy resources;
b) establish the appropriate exchange mechanisms to ensure a regular supply of hydrocarbons;
c) promote renewable forms of energy as part of the policy of diversification of energy sources.
2. To achieve the aims of paragraph 1 of this article, Member States shall:
a) harmonize their national energy development plans;
b) establish a common energy policy more particularly as concerns exploitation, production and distribution;
c) establish an adequate system of concerted action and coordination for jointly solving the Communitys energy development problems, in particular those relating to energy transmission, the lack of skilled cadres and the shortage of funds for implementing their energy projects;
d) promote the training and further training of cadres.
Article 55.
Member States shall assess and grade their mineral and water resources inter alia by:
a) seeking better knowledge on their natural resource potentialities;
b) progressively reducing their dependence on transnational companies for upgrading such resources, in particular by mastering exploitation technologies;
c) improving methods of pricing and marketing raw materials.
Article 56.
To promote this cooperation, Member States shall:
a) harmonize their policies for prospecting, producing and processing mineral resources and their policies for prospecting, exploiting and distributing of water resources;
b) coordinate their development and utilization programmes for mineral and water resources in order to exploit similarities and complementarities within the Community and promote vertical and horizontal inter-industrial relationships which may be established between Member States as a result of the upgrading of such resources;
c) coordinate their positions in all international negotiations on raw materials in order to safeguard their interests;
d) develop a system of transfer of know-how and exchange of scientific, technical and economic data among Member States;
e) prepare and implement joint training and further-training programmes for cadres in order to develop the human resources and the appropriate local technological capacities needed for the exploration, exploitation and processing of mineral and water resources.
Article 57.
To implement the cooperation activities under Articles 54 - 56 above, the Secretary-General shall submit proposals to the Council for preparing a joint policy for upgrading mineral and water resources.
Article 58.
For the purposes of this Chapter, Member States shall cooperate in accordance with Protocols XIII and XIV attached hereto.
Chapter XII. Cooperation In Human Resources and Social Affairs
Article 59. Human Resources
1. Member States shall cooperate in the development and use of their human resources, inter alia with regard to the programming, planning and preparation of policies, training and vocational guidance, providing the basic requirements of economic and social development and the use of human resources in general.
2. Accordingly, they shall:
a) adopt and promote a common policy on the programming, planning and preparation of policies;
b) coordinate their policies and activities in education, training, career planning, guidance, expert advice and consultancy;
c) cooperate in the development of human resources in order to meet the basic requirements of their economic and social development;
d) cooperate in order to use their human resources potential.
Article 60. Social Affairs
1. Member States shall use their human resources fully and rationally for the development of the Community.
2. Accordingly, they shall:
a) promote exchanges of experience and information on literacy, vocational training and employment;
b) develop collective research by appropriate policies aimed at improving the economic, social and cultural status of women in urban and rural areas and increasing their integration in development activities;
c) progressively harmonize their labour laws, social security systems and civil status laws and regulations;
d) initiate sub-regional cooperation in public health, medical research, promotion of studies in traditional medicine and pharmacy and exchanges of experiences.
3. For the purposes of this Chapter, Member States shall cooperate in accordance with Protocol XV attached hereto.
Chapter XIII. Cooperation In Education, Training and Culture
Article 61. Education and Training
1. Member States shall prepare a common educational policy including education models more closely tailored to the economic and socio-cultural realities of the sub-region in order to train people who are rooted in their environment and able to promote the changes necessary for social progress and development.
2. For the purposes of paragraph 1 of this article, Member States shall:
a) improve the efficiency of existing educational systems by promoting the training of trainers and using appropriate methods and aids;
b) establish new national and sub-regional training institutions and strengthen the existing ones;
c) prepare common training programmes better suited to development problems with a view to progressively achieving self-sufficiency in skilled personnel;
d) promote the systematic exchange of experiences and information on education policy and planning.
Article 62. Culture
1. Member States shall promote all forms of expression of their culture in order to make it more widely known.
2. For the purposes of paragraph 1 of this article, Member States shall:
a) make every effort to preserve their cultural heritage;
b) exchange their cultural programmes and their experiences, particularly in art, literature, spectacles, sports and leisure activities;
c) exchange cinema, television and radio programme materials and productions;
d) seek ways and means of developing infrastructures and facilitates of common interest.
Article 63.
For the purposes of this Chapter, Member States shall cooperate in accordance with the Protocol XV attached hereto.
Chapter XIV. Cooperation In Tourism
Article 64.
Member States Shall:
a) develop and promote sub-regional tourism;
b) prepare a common policy on sub-regional tourism;
c) send the Secretary-General documents defining their plans and programmes for tourist development.
Article 65.
For the purposes of implementing Article 64, the Secretary-General shall undertake jointly with the competent national and sub-regional bodies the technical studies necessary to define a Community tourist development plan.
Article 66.
For the purposes of this Chapter, Member States shall cooperate in accordance with Protocol XVI attached hereto.
Chapter XV. Trade Documents and Procedures
Article 67. Trade Documents and Procedures
Member States shall simplify and harmonize their trade documents and procedures in accordance with the Protocol on the Simplification and Harmonization of Trade Documents and Procedures attached hereto as Annex XVII so as to facilitate intra-Community trade in goods and services.
Chapter XVI. Cooperation In other Fields
Article 68.
Subject to the provisions of this Treaty, Member States shall consult with one another through appropriate Community institutions for the purpose of harmonizing their respective policies in areas where harmonization may be considered necessary or desirable for the efficient and harmonious functioning and development of the Community and for the implementation of this Treaty.
Article 69. Accounts, Taxation and Data Processing
1. Member States shall cooperate in standardizing and harmonizing their accounting procedures with the two aims of:
a) standardizing methods of recording accounts data, evaluating assets and liabilities and presenting results in order that they may be comparable and that accounts may be consolidated at both national and sub-regional levels;
b) improving methods of management and control of the performances of undertakings, administrative units and State bodies.
2. Member States shall harmonize existing and future accounting laws and plans and promote every effort and every instrument likely to help achieve the aims of paragraph 1 of this article.
3. Member States shall, within four years from the date of entry into force of this Treaty, harmonize their tax laws, in particular with regard to the rules of assessment and the rates applicable to indirect taxes not levied by the customs administration in order to encourage the establishment of undertakings in the Community.
4. Member States shall make every effort to integrate and interconnect their data processing.
Article 70. Planning of Development, Statistics and Demography
1. To achieve the aims of collective sub-regional development, Member States shall