Enabling Environment

SADC member states are involved in numerous services negotiations at the multilateral (WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)) and regional (SADC and COMESA) levels, as well as through the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations with the EU. To make these negotiations more meaningful, it is essential that SATH engages directly with the regulators and private sector operators that are directly affected by service regulations.

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SATH Workshop Equips Region for Trade in Services Negotiations

10 October 2011

octpic5tisThe SATH Trade in Road Freight Services Workshop, held in Johannesburg, South Africa from September 27 to 28, welcomed over 30 participants from Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. The workshop enabled private sector representatives, transport officials and trade officials to engage in a dialogue on trade in services in the road freight sector in the SADC region for the first time.

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Regulatory Impact Assessment in SADC: Improving Regional Regulatory Outcomes

Regulatory Impact Assessment in SADC: Improving Regional Regulatory Outcomes

30 September 2011
Enabling Environment

Good regulatory outcomes require that attention be paid to the likely effects of regulatory change. In other words, government interventions must take cognizance of the facts on the ground. Without a focus on practical outcomes, regulation cannot be improved by the process of learning-by-doing and in addition risks being undermined by impractical or self-serving political policy shifts. In practice, however, a focus on facts can be very difficult to accomplish. Available data may be patchy or difficult to interpret and the political momentum which develops around a particular regulatory proposal may make it difficult to foster critical debate.

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SATH Assesses State of Road Transport Service Sector in Southern Africa

09 August 2011

roadtransportIn most SADC member countries, the service sector makes up approximately half of GDP and is a major contributor to employment. The service sector is also a key contributor to national competitiveness and development. Policies that tend to improve the efficiency of the service sector are thus highly significant for economic growth.

During its first year, SATH selected the road transport service sector – including transport operators, freight forwarders, customs agents, and transport regulators such as the departments of road safety – as its primary target for interventions.

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