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Joint Communique 1st EU-SADC EPA Joint Council Meeting
The first Meeting of the Joint Council of the EU-SADC (Southern African Development Community) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), was held on Tuesday, 19th February 2019 in Cape Town, South Africa. Honourable Bogolo Joy Kenewendo, Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry of Botswana and EU Trade Commissioner, Cecilia Malmstrom co-chaired the meeting. Commissioner Malmstrom was accompanied by Honourable Ms Maria Magdalena Grigore, State Secretary for Development Cooperation of Romania and representing the Presidency of the Council of the EU.
Opening Remarks by the SACU Executive Secretary, Ms. Paulina M. Elago Official Handover of the outcomes of the WCO-SACU Connect Project
This ceremony marks the end of the WCO-SACU Connect Project which is a SACU Regional Customs Modernisation Programme. The Project was implemented as a collaboration between SACU Member States, WCO and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). The project started in 2008 and was implemented in two phases, respectively in 2008 to 2013; and 2014 to 2018. Today we will receive the presentation of the outcomes of the WCO-SACU Connect Project covering the period from February 2014 to December 2018.
Key Note address by the Permanent Secretary of Finance, Namibia Ms. Ericah B. Shafudah at the occasion of Official Handover of the Outcomes of the WCO-SACU Connect Project
I am delighted to take this opportunity to deliver my address on the occasion of the project handover ceremony of the WCO-SACU Connect Project, which is a flagship Project for the Customs Modernisation Programme in SACU.