Sadc calls for effective mutual recognition agreements

TRADE adviser Viola Sawere has called on Southern African Development Community (Sadc) member States to work towards harmonising mutual recognition agreements (MRAs), arguing that the arrangement provides legal certainty for recognition, reduces costs and, therefore, promotes ease of doing business.

Sawere made the remarks during the four-day International Organisation for Migration Dialogue for Southern Africa held under the theme Promoting Regional Integration Through Sustaining Safe, Regular and Orderly Migration in southern Africa in Victoria Falls recently.

She called for a tripartite dialogue (trade, immigration and labour officials) involving the structures established under the Sadc Protocols on Trade in Services.

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