Open Sky for Africa is a publication released by the World Bank in 2010. The document written by Charles E. Schlumberger, the principal Bank specialist on air transportation, depicts the current situation of the market and set the scene for the full implementation of the Yamoussoukro Decision on the liberalization of access to air transport markets in Africa (UNECA, 1999). The Decision reached by the states signatories of the Abuja Treaty and parties to the Yamoussoukro Declaration convening again in Cote Ivoire to set out an effective strategy for the creation of a real intra-African aviation market. Dr. Schlumberger reviews the status of implementation of the international instrument at regional level and identifies four main elements that require further attention by the side of the party states to ensure the full implementation of the Declaration:
- Development of competition rules and consumer protection rights;
- Implemention formal arbitration procedures;
- The monitoring body (Article 9.1, Decision) which has already been created, starts functioning by meeting regularly (Adis Ababa and Sun City) to supervise and follow up on implementation of theYamoussoukro Decision (progress at low pace); and
- Establishing an executing agency (already identified in the African Civil Aviation Commission). (excerpt from the book, p.32)
At the moment 8 African states—Djibouti, Eritrea, Madagascar, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, South Africa, and Swaziland — for different commercial, political or economic interests remain uncommitted to any obligations to liberalize air transportation according to the Yamoussoukro Decision on either a continental or a regional level.
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