Recruitment of a Consultant for the Development of Procedures Manuals, Reference Guides and Implementing Directive for Community Competition Rules at ECOWAS

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Job Title: Recruitment of a Consultant for the Development of Procedures Manuals, Reference Guides and Implementing Directive for Community Competition Rules

Job Venue : ECOWAS Commission,
Job Location: ABUJA, Nigeria

Job Type : Expression of Interest (EOI)

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Reference No. N° ECW/ERCA-CTCF/ADM/ (DU (005) /15/03/22) know In the framework of the execution of the 2021 Budget, ECOWAS Regional Competition Authority (ERCA) intends to apply a portion its budgeted funds for the Recruitment of a Consultant for the Development of Procedures Manuals, Reference Guides and Implementing Directive for Community Competition Rules

I. BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE
The ECOWAS Competition Framework was adopted in 2008 through two (2) Supplementary Acts: the Supplementary Act A/SA.01/12/08 adopting the Community Competition Rules and its application modalities, the Supplementary Act A/SA.02/12/08 on the establishment, powers and functioning of the ECOWAS Regional Competition Authority (ERCA) which was officially inaugurated on 12th June 2018 and whose activities have effectively started in January 2019. The Community Competition Rules aim to promote and encourage competition within the ECOWAS region by discouraging practices that hamper the proper functioning of the regional market.

The ERCA is responsible for monitoring the market in order to prohibit agreements, decisions taken by business associations and cartel practices that may disrupt trade between ECOWAS Member States and that have the object or effect of hindering, restricting or distorting competition in the regional market.
For the operationalisation of the general principles described in the two founding texts mentioned above, the ECOWAS decision-making bodies (the Council of Ministers and the Authority of Heads of State and Government) adopted in December 2021 a set of subsidiary regulations:

(i) an Supplementary Act amending the Supplementary Act A/SA.02/12/08 which institutes, in particular, the ERCA Council,

(ii) a Regulation on the powers and composition of the ERCA Council,

(iii) a Regulation on the ERCA procedures,

(iv) a Regulation adopting the rules of procedure on mergers and acquisitions, and

(v) a Regulation adopting the rules on Bertil Harding, KSMD, Bijilo, The Gambia
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All these legal texts constitute a major step forward in the effective implementation of the ECOWAS Competition Policy. However, some provisions deserve to be completed and further specified through Procedures Manuals, reference guides, information forms and directives, which, where appropriate, are detailed in the above-mentioned regulations.