Bibliographie sélective OHADA

This study investigates how blockchain integration, regulatory policies, and the participation of institutional investors impact fintech innovation in Jordanian fintech companies. A descriptive analytical approach was used to evaluate and summarize the effects of these factors on innovation in the sector. An electronic survey was conducted among 125 administrative personnel working in Jordan's fintech industry. The results indicate a strong presence of blockchain adoption, involvement of institutional investors, and overall fintech innovation in these companies. However, the regulatory landscape in Jordan's fintech sector was found to be moderate. Furthermore, the analysis reveals that both blockchain integration and the regulatory framework significantly influence fintech innovation, with a significance level of 0.05. In light of these findings, the study suggests the creation of strategies to promote blockchain adoption, aiming to enhance efficiency and innovation in the industry.

This study focuses on both domestic and foreign investment as indicators of economic growth in an emerging market context, examining the effects of tax reforms on investment decisions in Ghana from 1985 to 2020. The research employs a time-series analysis to integrate control variables like inflation, gross capital formation, and base rate, revealing their significant influence on investment activity in tandem with tax policy changes. Unlike previous research that mostly uses gross fixed capital formation as a proxy for investment, this study includes a wider range of investment types, giving a more complete picture of how the economy works. We did unit root and co-integration tests, which showed that the variables were first-order co-integrated. We performed the model estimate using a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) and Granger causality tests. Results reveal that tax reforms have a measurable impact on investment patterns, underscoring the importance of adaptive tax policies in promoting sustainable economic development. The findings contribute to the broader literature on investment and fiscal policy in emerging economies, offering insights for policy-makers on optimizing tax strategies to encourage investment and drive economic growth.

L’arbitrage est une réalité en Afrique depuis longtemps déjà. C’est avec l’avènement de l’Organisation pour l’Harmonisation en Afrique du Droit des Affaires que ce domaine a pu avoir un dispositif bien structuré. Etant un mode alternatif de règlement des différends, l’arbitrage a pour fondement prépondérant la volonté des parties qui y font recours. Il s’est donc posé en filigrane la question de la portée de la volonté des parties à l’arbitrage OHADA. Le constat est que tout comme en matière contractuelle, elle est un élément indispensable à l’efficacité de ce mode de résolution des litiges. C’est la raison pour laquelle sa portée est traduite par une prégnance avérée, et un recul tout de même constaté.

The significant increase in the development of world economy over the last few decades have been experienced a considerable increase in the number of commercial disputes. When there is any business and dealings with contracts the question of dispute must be happened. But all of the parties actually want to run their business well and smoothly. In recent world a massive part of global economy depends on the trans-border business. But disputes in such business dealings sometimes can be the reasons to become risk the inter-relation of those parties. Which can affect the global economy as a whole. Comparing to the disputes inside domestic entities the trans-border or international business disputes can arise as bigger problem because of different jurisdictions, diverse legal systems and tradition. International Court of Justice (ICJ) already has the jurisdiction to try all the international civil suits but Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanism also considered as a viable alternative to resolve the dispute over the court. The international arbitration arises as a way of alternative dispute resolution mechanism which upraise benefits both of the parties and maintain the confidentiality. In this paper details of international arbitration and the broader impact of this mechanism in the global business economy will be focused. The legal status and the implementation process of international arbitration also be the discussing point of this paper.

Le retard dans l’exécution du contrat recouvre les situations dans lesquelles le débiteur d’une obligation n’y satisfait pas dans le délai qui lui est imparti. Cet incident est de nature à remettre en cause le temps contractuel. Davantage, le retard bouleverse l’économie du contrat, étant donné que celui qui s’exécute en retard s’acquitte en deçà de son dû. Néanmoins, il émerge une sorte de tolérance envers le retard, en articulation avec la survie du contrat. La question se pose, après, de savoir si le redéploiement du retard dans l’exécution du contrat ne tend pas à le différencier des autres formes d’inexécution, alors même qu’il reste encadré par le droit commun de l’inexécution. Pour le moins, le retard dans l’exécution se voit actualisé dans ses tenants et aboutissants. Bien plus, l’approche renouvelée se tourne vers le dépassement d’une difficulté, par hypothèse remédiable, et semble poser les bases d’un régime dérogatoire.

This article seeks to examine the extent to which users of e-banking services are protected in Cameroon. Over the past decades financial transactions have gradually emerged from traditional methods to modern forms of banking. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has transformed the banking system into a digital arena. With e-banking, customers can access their bank accounts, transfer funds, pay bills, and check their accounts balances. Banks serve as the backbone of every modern economy and should be protected. The development of e-banking in the 1980s with the aid of ICT has rendered banks and their customers vulnerable to cybercrimes. As an effort to combat cybercrimes and ensure cyber security in Cameroon, the 2010 Cyber Law provides both substantive and procedural rules. It is rather unfortunate that, the measures put in place to ensure cyber security and protect bank customers against cybercrimes are to a greater extent ineffective. The main objective of this article is to determine the protection accorded to banks and their customers against cybercrimes. The method adopted in the course of this work is doctrinal wherein, both primary and secondary sources of data were collected. The findings reveal among others that, the measures put in place to combat cybercrimes within the banking sphere in Cameroon are not effective. There is lack of explicit definitions for cyber offences. Most of the offences provided by the 2010 Cyber Law are vague and ambiguous. We therefore recommend that, the 2010 Cyber Law should be amended to address the current issues of ICT. This amendment should include explicit definitions for the different forms of cybercrimes with severe sanctions. Banks are advised to put in place effective monitoring machineries to mitigate cybercrimes.

La présente étude tente à démontrer combien les règles relatives à la réserve héréditaire et à la détermination des héritiers réservataires sont de nature à les mettre à conflit avec eux-mêmes et avec les autres héritiers cités au niveau de l’article 758 du Code congolais de la famille. De ce fait, les auteurs démontrent qu’elles entretiennent une inégalité permanente, cela devant ne pas coller au contexte africain. C’est ainsi que la réflexion se propose de proposer des réformes en vue de restaurer cette égalité, gage de la paix et de la cohésion dans les familles.

La dénonciation des traités en droit international africain soulève des enjeux juridiques importants. Elle s’inscrit dans le cadre de la Convention de Vienne sur le droit des traités de 1969, qui régit les conditions de retrait d’un traité, notamment à travers ses articles 54 et 56. Ceux-ci prévoient que la dénonciation est possible soit conformément aux dispositions du traité, soit avec le consentement de toutes les parties, ou encore si la nature du traité le permet, moyennant un préavis raisonnable. En Afrique, plusieurs États ont récemment exercé leur droit de retrait, notamment vis-à-vis d’engagements relatifs aux droits de l’homme. Un exemple marquant est la dénonciation du traité de la CEDEAO par les Etats de l’AES sur le fondement juridique de l’article 91 dudit traité. Ces pratiques suscitent des débats sur leur conformité au droit international, en particulier quant à la protection des droits acquis et à la sécurité juridique. Elles traduisent une tension entre le respect de la souveraineté étatique et les obligations internationales, soulevant des inquiétudes quant à la fragilisation des mécanismes africains de protection des droits humains. Dès lors, la question de la dénonciation des traités interpelle sur la nécessité de garantir un équilibre entre les intérêts étatiques et la pérennité des institutions juridiques régionales.

Le conflit armé opposant la Russie à l’Ukraine a relancé au plan international la question des sanctions ciblées contre les personnes privées morales par les Organisations Internationales. Jadis focalisée sur les individus les sanctions internationales soulèvent la question de leur légalité lorsqu’elles concernent des tiers à l’Organisation. Ainsi les multinationales ou les Organisations Non Gouvernementales (ONG) qui interviennent dans le Blanchiment International de Capitaux, dans le financement international du terrorisme, dans la violation des droits de l’homme ou à qui l’on est reproche des faits de corruption courent le risque d’être sanctionnées par des Organisations internationales universelles comme l’ONU. Mais de plus en plus au plan régional, des Organisations comme l’UEMOA ainsi que la CEDEAO vont intervenir également en matière de sanction des personnes privées morales au plan africain. The armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine has revived the issue of targeted sanctions against private legal entities by international organizations at the international level. Previously focused on individuals, international sanctions raise the question of their legality when they concern third parties to the organization. Thus, multinationals or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in international money laundering, international terrorist financing, human rights violations, or those accused of corruption run the risk of being sanctioned by universal international organizations such as the UN. But increasingly at the regional level, organizations such as UEMOA and ECOWAS will also intervene in matters of sanctioning private legal entities at the African level.

Née à une époque où la protection de l’environnement constituait un leitmotiv sur la scène internationale, il a fallu plus de trois décennies à la CEEAC pour inscrire expressément cette protection dans son texte fondamental notamment son Traité révisé. Nonobstant cet exploit, des manquements sont observables. D’une part, le Traité considère la protection de l’environnement comme un moyen de l’intégration économique et non comme un objectif à part entière de la communauté. D’autre part, l’environnement est appréhendé de manière sectorielle dans le Traité pourtant, la tendance doit être la globalisation de l’environnement par l’inclusion de celui-ci dans tous les politiques sociaux économiques de la communauté tel que se revendique aujourd’hui le développement durable. A l’épreuve, la CEEAC se doit dans son Traité de rendre à l’environnement toute l’attention et l’importance qui lui sont reconnues aujourd’hui. Born at a time when environmental protection was a leitmotif on the international scene, it took more than three decades dor ECCAS to expressly include this protection in its fundamental text, particularly its Revised Treaty. Notwithstanding this feat, shortcomings are observable. On the one hand, the Treaty considers environment protection as a means of economic integration and not as a separate objective of the community. On the other hand, the environment is understood in a sectoral manner in the Treaty, however, the trend most most be the globalization of the environment through the inclusion of it in all, the social and economic policies of the community such as sustainable development is now being promoted. Under the test, the ECCAS must in its Treaty give to the environment all the attention and importance that is recognized for it today.

It may be assumed that all of the United States’ trading partners were impacted by the recent “Liberation Day” announcement – an announcement which constitutes “two distinct tariff actions” – as will be highlighted in this paper. However, despite previous concerns of being targeted by their free trade agreement (FTA) partner, Canada and Mexico – as would have been or should be expected, have been exempted from the tariff imposition. As well as addressing factors which have contributed to the shift from free trade to increasingly and predominantly protectionist stances and most likely, fair trade practices, this paper is aimed at highlighting and explaining the rationales behind the recent historical developments – as well as highlighting those factors that have triggered the build up to the Liberation Day Announcement of the 2nd April 2025. It is remarked that “Trump’s reciprocal tariff doctrine, holds foreign countries accountable”. Against this backdrop of discontent with World Trade Organisation’s dispute resolution mechanisms, which will be further elaborated on, in the paper, the immediate and possible long term impacts of the Announcement, will be considered. As well as exploring the reasons for recent developments – by way of reference to historical developments and data, the paper also considers the underlying frameworks governing the calculations of recent tariff rates and hikes. Whilst there are arguments regarding the validity of such calculations, or whether the current scenario justifies the basis for implementing “national emergency measures”, what can be regarded as an emergency response can be determined through a consideration of underlying and contributory factors. If negotiations, and more specifically, bilateral negotiations, take place as hoped, between those countries impacted by the Liberation Day Announcement, financial stability across global markets is expected to be restored. However, if retaliatory measures follow – with an escalation of trade wars, possible repercussions should be cause for concern. The global trading system is still recovering from the recent crisis which was largely uncontrollable – hence, it is more likely (and hoped) that the recent market turbulence and volatilities will be short term.

En droit OHADA des procédures collectives de sauvegarde, le débiteur fait l’objet d’une assistance. Elle concerne tant les actes d’administration que de disposition. Vu l’importance de ces actes de gestion sur lesquels elle porte afin d’atteindre les finalités de redressement de l’entreprise débitrice et le paiement de ses créanciers, la présente étude fait une analyse approfondie de cet aspect salvateur. Under OHADA law on collective safeguard procedures, the debtor is provided with assistance. This concerns both acts of administration and acts of disposal. In view of the importance of these acts of management in achieving the goals of reorganizing the debtor company and paying its creditors, the present study provides an in-depth analysis of this life-saving aspect.

Avec de plus en plus de transactions commerciales effectuées par voie électronique, les litiges résultant d'intérêts conflictuels ou de malveillance deviennent inévitables, car Internet est devenu un terreau fertile pour divers abus. Ces abus vont de la rupture de contrat et des actes délictuels aux actes criminels. Il en résulte que l'utilisation d'Internet a donné une dimension différente à ces litiges. Cependant, comme le dit la célèbre maxime Ubi Jus Ubi Remedium, là où il y a un droit, il y a un remède. Le Cameroun, suivant cette tendance, a adopté un cadre juridique qui offre une panoplie de recours disponibles pour les victimes de violations du commerce électronique et d'infractions connexes, dans l'intention de rapprocher la partie lésée le plus possible de la position qu'elle aurait occupée s'il n'y avait pas eu d'abus. Le but de cet article est d'évaluer l'efficacité du cadre actuel pour remédier aux victimes de violations du commerce électronique et d'infractions connexes. L'article examine donc les bases des responsabilités en commerce électronique et les recours disponibles pour les victimes, mettant en évidence les difficultés qui rendent ces recours moins efficaces à cet égard. Plusieurs recommandations ont été proposées par cet article pour améliorer le statu quo. With more and more business being conducted through electronic means, disputes stemming from conflicting interests or malice become inevitable, as the internet has become a breeding ground for diverse abuses. These abuses range from contractual breaches and tortious acts to criminal acts. It follows that the use of the internet has given a different dimension to these disputes. However, as the famous maxim Ubi Jus, Ubi Remedium states, where there is a right, there is a remedy. Cameroon, following this trend, adopted a legal framework that provided a panoply of remedies available to victims of breaches of e-commerce contracts and related offenses to bring the aggrieved party as close as possible to the position he would have been in if there had been no abuse. The purpose of this article is to assess the efficiency of the present framework for remedying victims of e-commerce breaches and related offenses. The article thus examines the basis for liabilities in e-commerce and the remedies available to victims, bringing out the difficulties which render these remedies less efficient for the purpose. Several recommendations have been proffer by this article to improve the status quo.

L’État Camerounais désireux d’attirer des investissements agro-industriels directs se montre parfois complaisant au détriment de la maitrise des impacts locaux de ces entreprises sur l’environnement. Situation qui est permanemment source de conflit avec les communautés locales qui aspirent à protéger leur espace ressource. Dans un contexte de contestations sociales, les entreprises sont de plus en plus interpellées sur leur engagement à la responsabilité sociétale et leur redevabilité environnementale envers leur territoire d’action. Paradoxalement, alors que le Cameroun a adhéré aux idéaux de développement durable, un foisonnement d’initiatives et d’expérimentations faites sur le terrain mettent en exergues plusieurs insuffisances d’une responsabilité sociétale hybride, intuitive qui ne permet pas véritablement à ces entreprises de contribuer au développement durable de leur localité d’implantation et de satisfaire aux attentes des populations locales. Cette réflexion prendra appui sur l’approche des parties prenantes de la responsabilité sociétale des entreprises afin d’en proposer un modèle co-construit adapté à la préservation des intérêts écologiques dans l’ancrage local des entreprises du secteur agro-industriel au Cameroun.

Corporate law is in a moment of vibrant and contentious discussions about potential reforms. As firms exit Delaware, passive investment predominates, private equity expands, and public markets decline, corporate law faces a growing set of challenges that threaten its stability and efficacy. At the same time, the world faces pressing crises, including climate change, social and economic inequalities, and threats to democracy, though corporate law scholars typically consider these crises to be outside corporate law’s remit. In this Article, we argue that to understand and address the multidimensional crises that face both corporate law and society, we must address shortcomings in corporate law doctrine. We show how modern corporate law, shaped by neoclassical economic theories, provides an incomplete picture of the firm, and we propose an expanded theoretical perspective that draws from organization theory, a field long dedicated to understanding the complexities of the firm. This updated perspective demonstrates how firms actually consist of multiple constituents, including workers, the environment, and shareholders, who invest different forms of capital in the firm: labor capital, natural capital, and financial capital. It further shows that modern corporate law entrenches problematic power imbalances, privileging boards and insider shareholders over workers, the environment, and minority shareholders. Moreover, building on organization theory, we explain how corporate law fundamentally shapes and constrains firm behavior, leading these entrenched power imbalances to generate far-reaching negative consequences. To address these shortcomings, we propose redesigning board representation, fiduciary duties, and executive compensation to empower workers, the environment, and minority shareholders in relation to boards and insider shareholders. Integrating the organizational and economic perspectives can help address problematic power imbalances and ultimately provide a more effective corporate law framework to govern firms and serve society.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) builds up the accounting system efficiency, increases data entry accuracy and simplifying the accounting process. The aim of the study is to prove the effectiveness of modern AI-based information technologies (IT) in accounting and the possibilities of AI application for process optimization. The effectiveness and efficiency were proven using comparison methods, statistical analysis, graphical cause-and-effect analysis, modelling using the linear regression method. The assessment was carried out using quantitative and qualitative indicators of labour productivity and process optimization. The results of the study showed that 18 accounting department employees on average are needed to perform standard transactions in the companies studied without AI. With AI, 1 person can handle such a volume of work. Accordingly, with the implementation of AI, the average reduction in Transaction Processing Time per Week is 696.26 hours. Regression analysis confirmed that the implementation of AI increases the companies’ productivity in terms of Transaction Processing Time. Reducing the Data Processing Complexity by one unit leads to a reduction in transaction processing time by 592.69 seconds. Each percent increase in Data Entry Accuracy contributes to a reduction in processing time by 5135.51 seconds. The prospects for implementing AI in accounting include further improving algorithms to increase the accuracy and speed of transaction processing, optimizing material and time consumed.  

The present article explores the implication of fairness as a regulatory and competition law concept applied to digital and Artificial Intelligence markets, in light of recent law and policy developments targeting the interaction between data, market power and competition law. Much of the policy discussions, legislative proposals as well some emerging case law elevate the matter of “fairness” in the context of digital markets and AI, creating both a novel regulatory framework as well as encouraging competition law to curb “unfairness” of said markets and related “unfair practices”. The interface between intellectual property rights and competition law is of utmost importance in this context, where we might find similar analogous insights as we can find regarding the matter of fairness within traditional EU competition law. Further, the question remains whether the “fairness norm” expressed in regulatory acts such Digital Markets Act, EU AI Act and the EU Data Act are akin to the “fairness” norms found in Union competition law, mainly under Article 102 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

L’article dissèque les apports de la réforme récente de l’Acte uniforme portant organisation des procédures simplifiées de recouvrement et des voies d’exécution, dans son aspect relatif à l’immunité d’exécution des personnes morales de droit public dans l’OHADA. Le nouveau texte a-t-il permis d’obtenir des avancées décisives sur cette question ? Le doute est permis. Ainsi, cette étude démontre que, malgré quelques avancées notables, surtout en termes de clarification concernant l’identité des personnes morales publiques bénéficiaires de l’immunité d’exécution, l’on ne saurait parler d’une « révolution copernicienne ». La réforme pêche par son manque d’ambition et d’audace. Alors que le contexte était favorable au changement consacrant l’immunité d’exécution relative, le législateur de l’OHADA a plutôt fait preuve de minimalisme, en maintenant le caractère absolu et exorbitant de ce privilège et en introduisant de nouveaux tempéraments à l’immunité dont le caractère véritablement novateur mérite d’être relativisé. Il n’a pas su non plus, dans une perspective de modernisation de son droit de l’exécution, renforcer davantage la protection des créanciers, en mettant entre leurs mains des moyens de pression extrajudiciaires et juridictionnels, complémentaires aux voies d’exécution ordinaires, qui permettent l’exacte exécution des créances publiques. Le législateur a ainsi manqué une véritable opportunité de s’aligner sur les évolutions contemporaines observées en droit international et dans certains droits étrangers, favorables à l’immunité restreinte ou fonctionnelle. Finalement, seule l’intervention décisive de la CCJA qui, au moyen d’une sage et courageuse application du nouveau dispositif, pourra contribuer à un plus grand assouplissement de l’immunité absolue d’exécution.

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