CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC- The Organisation of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS) Fee says it has commenced a sequence of nation missions to member states geared toward growing consciousness among the many public on the advantages of the Financial Union and the continuing European Union-funded Regional Integration By Progress Harmonisation and Know-how (RIGHT) program.
The St. Lucia-based Fee stated that stakeholder consultations have already been held in Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts-Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and St. Lucia.
It stated the engagements can be finalized in January 2024 following discussions with senior officers from Montserrat.
The initiative additionally promotes nationwide motion that totally establishes the free motion of particular person regime, a core part of the Japanese Caribbean Financial Union (ECEU) established on June 18, 2010, underneath the Revised Treaty of Basseterre (RTB).
In Might 2011, OECS leaders determined to grant OECS residents and their qualifying members of the family throughout the ECEU a number of advantages related to free motion of individuals, particularly, indefinite keep, hassle-free journey, mutual recognition of driver’s license, and no work allow necessities.
The Fee stated that by so doing, the OECS leaders took a elementary step towards correct regional integration within the OECS. These advantages and extra are presently detailed within the OECS Coverage on Rights Contingent on the Motion Throughout the Financial Union, which is the central part of the Free motion of particular person regime however has but to be totally carried out by member states.
The Fee stated that these nation missions search to speed up the free motion of individuals and the ECEU typically.
It stated initiatives geared toward strengthening the regime embody labor migration, social safety advantages portability, entry to schooling and healthcare, social growth, intra-regional transportation, intra-regional commerce, nationwide border safety, entry to digital providers, and client safety, which have been all subjects of debate, with a broad cross-section of nationwide stakeholders.
“These stakeholder engagements will assist information the nationwide actions that may be moved instantly to ship on these contingent rights advantages. This consists of efforts to advance the Contingent Rights Mannequin Invoice and the event of administrative devices to assist make the free motion of the private regime a extra accessible actuality for ECEU residents,” stated OECS Director Basic Dr. Didacus Jules.
The Fee stated the suggestions will kind a part of a report reviewed by the OECS leaders in 2024 for additional motion.
It stated a number of regional integration initiatives being superior by the OECS Fee are being financed by the European Union’s eleventh European Growth Fund via the Regional Integration By Progress Harmonisation and Know-how (RIGHT) Programme.
Co-funders and worldwide company assist embody The World Financial institution, the United Nations Convention on Commerce and Growth (UNCTAD), and the Conference on Worldwide Commerce in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
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