OHADA
OHADA (Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa) is a system of corporate law and implementing institutions adopted by seventeen West and Central African nations in 1993 in Port Louis, Mauritius before it was revised in 2008 in Quebec, Canada.[1] OHADA is the acronym for the French "Organisation pour l'harmonisation en Afrique du droit des affaires", which translates into English as "Organisation for the Harmonisation of Corporate Law in Africa".
The OHADA Treaty is made up today of 17 African states. Initially fourteen African countries signed the treaty, with two countries (
Characteristics
As a West and Central African initiative to harmonize business laws and implementing institutions, OHADA aims to find alternative solutions to the lack of economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa - a region which has challenged and puzzled
The most critical tool for legal integration is the Uniform Act. A uniform act is the recollection of all relevant legal norms needed to ease business in the Member States. As of today,[when?] OHADA includes nine validated Uniform Acts: General Commercial Law, Commercial Companies and Economic Interest Groups, Secured Transactions Law, Debt Resolution Law, Insolvency Law, Arbitration Law, Harmonization of Corporate Accounting, Contracts for the Carriage of Goods, Cooperatives Companies Law. Two Uniform Acts (Arbitration and Accounting) are currently being revised.[citation needed]
Member States
- Benin[6]
- Burkina Faso[6]
- Cameroon[6]
- Central African Republic[6]
- Chad[6]
- Comoros[6]
- Côte d'Ivoire[6]
- Democratic Republic of Congo[7]
- Equatorial Guinea[6]
- Gabon[6]
- Guinea[6]
- Guinea-Bissau[6]
- Mali[6]
- Niger[6]
- Republic of the Congo[6]
- Senegal[6]
- Togo[6]
Notes
- ^ Nzaou-Kongo, Aubin (2011). "Refreshing the Picture of OHADA with the Treaty of Quebec of 2008". Revue du droit des affaires – Juriafrica. 1: 1–10. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ^ "La RD Congo en bref..." OHADA. Archived from the original on 2016-08-30.
- ^ Organization of African Unity
- ^ http://www.ohada.org/index.php/en/court-of-justice-and-arbitration/ccja-at-a-glance
- ^ Dickerson, Claire M.: "Harmonizing Business Laws in Africa: OHADA Calls the Tune" 44:1 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (2005), 63 pages, retrieved 18 December 2007
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Treaty On The Harmonisation Of Business Law In Africa, ON LINE OHADA LAW LEGISLATION, n.d., retrieved 18 May 2016
- ^ "RDC : Adhésion à l'OHADA, gare aux pièges !". Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved February 16, 2010.