Senate : First Bills Communicated

Government has already forwarded two bills to the Senate during the current June Ordinary session of the Upper House of Parliament for the 2022 legislative year. Senate President Marcel Niat Njifenji presided at both the Chairmen’s Conference that judged the bills admissible and the plenary sitting in which the bills were communicated to the House Chamber.
One of the bills is that to authorise the President of the Republic to ratify the revised Constitution of the African Civil Aviation Commission (AFCAC), adopted in Dakar, Senegal on 16 December 2009. African Civil Aviation Commission (AFCAC), founded in 1964 and established in 1969 aims to promote the safe, secure and harmonious development of civil aviation in Africa. The  revised constitution modifies membership criteria by defining Member State as an African State that has signed or ratified/acceded to the AFCAC constitution. It restricts the terms of membership which, in 1969, was extended to African member States of the ECA or Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The revised Constitution also defines AFCAC’s roles and responsibilities for the implementation of the Yamoussoukro Decision, adopted on 14 November 1999, which liberalised access to air transport markets in Africa. This is through the launching of the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), which features among the key projects of the African Union’s Agenda 2063. Cameroon signed the AFCAC Constitution on 17 Jan...