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FORUM OF CARICOM DIRECTORS OF GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
SERVICES
FREE MOVEMENT OF PERSONSThe Vision and the Reality
CARICOM Community SecretariatKingston Jamaica16-17 March 2005
ANNEX V
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BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE CSME
• Legal Frameworks• Financial Resources• Human Resources• Social Assets
Sense of identityShared identity
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CONTEXT OF FREE MOVEMENT
• 400 years of economic articulation
• Community of Sovereign States
• Regional Market: minimum economic activity
• Lack of compliance
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LANDMARKS
1968 CARIFTA1973Treaty Establishing the Caribbean Community and
Common Market (signed at Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago, 4 July
1989: Grande Anse Declaration1990-2002 Signing of Protocols leading to the Revised
Treaty establishing the Caribbean Community (including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy)
2003: Rose Hall Declaration 2005: Year of the CARICOM Single Market
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More Structured vs. ad hoc Framework: Rule and Role of Law (CCJ)
CSME more structured approach to service and entrepreneurship
Provision of Services
CSME competitiveness: restructuring approaches and increasing opportunities
Right of Establishment
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Provision of services
• Provision of services is a right (Art. 30)• All services will be open to competition except:
(a) those involving the exercise of governmental authority (Art. 30)
(b) those where there is a monopoly (Art. 31)• Non-discrimination applies to all laws, rules,
administrative measures and service industries
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Provision of Services: The Reality
Removal of Restrictions for -• Companies• Non-Wage Earners (self-employed persons involved in
industrial, agricultural, professional, commercial and artisan activities)
• Managerial, technical and supervisory persons• Spouses and dependant persons
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Right of Establishment
Obligations:• Permit establishment in all areas• Do not introduce new restrictions• Remove existing restrictions
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Right of Establishment
Who has this right? According to Article 32-• natural persons: citizens, nationals, residents• natural persons: self-employed persons, persons
engaged in non-wage earning activities of an agricultural, industrial, commercial, artisanal and professional nature
• companies and other legal entities, agencies, branches and subsidiaries
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FREE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS:
TWO REGIMES-
• Facilitation of Travel (Art. 46)
• Movement of Skills (Arts. 32, 34(d), 36 and 37)
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Regime One: Facilitation of Travel (Art. 46)
• Common travel documents
• Common landing documents
• National treatment at ports of entry
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Regime Two:Movement of Skills
- Companies and Non-Wage Earners (self- employed persons)
- Wage Earners (University Graduates; Musicians; Artistes; Sports Persons; Media workers; Managerial, Technical and Supervisory Staff of establishing entities
- Other special categories (under discussion)
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LIBERALISATION: The reality Removal of work permit:- Skilled Nationals Act for wage earners
and the self-employed- Self-employed - Other skills levels- Removal of existing restrictions for
persons establishing a business or providing a service
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Status: Movement of Persons
Right of establishment :- Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and
Tobago completed the removal of restrictions
- All other Member States to complete the process by 31 December 2005
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Status: Movement of Persons
Free Movement of Persons :- Common Lines implemented in all Member States- Suriname started with the issuance of a CARICOM passport- All other Member States to introduce the CARICOM
passport- Free Movement of wage earners implemented in all
Member States, except Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat and St. Kitts and Nevis
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Status: Movement of Persons
Provision of Services :
- Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago completed the removal of
restrictions
- All other Member States to complete the process by 31 December 2005
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THE IMPACT OF FREE MOVEMENT
• Quality of goods and services
• New/non-traditional businesses
• Coalition of service providers
• Itinerant Community workers
• New Migration outlook
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INTERSECTION OF VISION/REALITY
• Regional transportation
• IT/ICT for Development
• Education and Training
• Cultural Industries
• Beyond consolidation of cultural bonds
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CATALYSTS TO ACTION
• Accreditation/ Standardisation
• CCJ
• New Executive Mechanism
• Restructured CARICOM Secretariat
• World Cup Cricket
• CARICOM/PANCAP
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IMPERATIVES FOR THE CSME REALITY
• GLOBAISATION
• THE FTAA
• SELF-RESPECT
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Some Action Points
• Information and Communication Network
• The role of GIS- Marketing and Public Education
• The role of the Media