Inter-trade Organisations : Government Seeks Proper Organisation

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Gabriel Mbairobe on November 17, 2021 in the Committee on Constitutional Laws of the National Assembly defended the bill governing inter-trade organisations in Cameroon. This was in the presence of the Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of Relations with the Assemblies, Bolvine Wakata.
The Minister explained that the bill seeks to address a number of problems identified in Cameroon’s production sectors, notable inequalities, lack of synergy in stakeholder interventions and the near absence of a structured organisation meeting international standards. This state of affairs calls for the pressing need for a legal framework to organise the economic sectors into complementary and interdependent value chains, while protecting the interests of all the links. The bill therefore sets out the terms of and conditions for the establishment, organisation and functioning of inter-trade organisations, which are private law legal persons, with status of associations, set up to coordinate inter-trade consultations and defend their interests. The bill specifies that there are two categories of inter-trade organisations that include ordinary inter-trade o...