An important delegation led by Jean REALE and Dr. Hugo RAMIREZ RISK, respectively OHADAC project driver and ACP Legal, Dominican Chapter President, with the participation of Dr. Jean-Alain PENDA, -an OHADA and OHADAC expert-, of HE Keats COMPTON, former Consul General of Saint Lucia in the French Departments of America and President of ACP Legal OECS(*), of Dr. Lydia ELLIOTT, lawyer, legal adviser of the OECS and CARICOM and ACP Legal Saint Lucia representative(*), and Odile EYHERAGUIBEL, financ...

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The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE) invited ACP Legal for a lecture untitled “Bi-regional relations, European Union-Latin America & the Caribbean, Prospects and Opportunities” by PhD. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, President of the Foundation European Union - Latin America and the Caribbean (EU-LAC Foundation). Ms. Ferrero-Waldner is a Doctor of Law from the Paris-Lodron-University of Salzburg (PLUS, Austria) and Honorary Doctor of the Lebanese American University (Be...

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Chaired by Mr. José Manuel BAROSO, President of the European Commission was held the second forum of the overseas regions of the European Union, which include Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Martin, Saint Barth, and French Guyana. To facilitate the regional integration of these territories, a partnership with the European Union was established. Mr. Victorin LUREL, French minister of overseas, the initiator of the OHADAC, the project of harmonization of business law in the Caribbean and the creati...

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The Democratic Republic of Congo will know very soon a legislative upheaval of huge importance. Indeed, after the OHADA Treaty (Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa) came into effect, a new business law will be applicable in this large country. A mini legal revolution will take place. Due to the immediately applicable effect of the Uniform Acts which were adopted in the wake of the OHADA Treaty, many law matters will be entirely replaced by new texts: arbitration, general...

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The French Dominican Chamber of Commerce (CCDF) and the Regional Council of Guadeloupe signed a cooperation agreement which aims to strengthen trade ties and economic cooperation between the two Caribbean territories. The agreement was signed by Manuel A. Grullon, President of the CCDF and Thérèse Marianne-Pépin, Vice President of the Regional Council of Guadeloupe, in the presence of H.E. Blandine Kreiss, Ambassador of France in the Dominican Republic. This agreement also seeks to promote mu...

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