Bibliographie sélective OHADA

Les débats sur le comportement de financement de l’entreprise familiale ont tendance à se complexifier au fur et à mesure de leur occurrence. La diversité des résultats qui en découlent souvent en manque d’un consensus sur le détail et le caractère influent de ses facteurs constitutifs, en témoigne à suffisance. L’objectif de cet article est donc de mettre en lumière les facteurs d’incitation du financement par les dettes de ces entreprises dont les dirigeants sont souvent reconnus pour leur frilosité à l’égard de tout ce qui engendre la perte de propriété. L’approche hypothético-déductive et la procédure de tests d’homogénéité emboîtés sont mobilisées. Il se dégage des résultats obtenus que, la tangibilité de l’actif, le coût de la dette, la rentabilité économique et financière justifient le recours à l’endettement des entreprises familiales au Cameroun.

“It is a curious fact that the Americanization of international arbitration is a topic that is often felt but is rarely discussed.” Roger P. Alford Similar to Alford’s sentiments, the shift towards arbitration in the United States alone is a phenomenon often felt, but feebly interrogated. Law schools across the nation continue to operate under the premise of judicial decision-making grounded in “rights protection.”[1] Yet, there is a clear shift towards arbitration as the preferred procedural process, with over 303,999 cases resolved by way of arbitration in 2019 alone.[2] While this brief note does not seek to interrogate the shift towards arbitration as much as it intends to examine the impact of American arbitration on international commercial arbitration generally, that shift, as you will see, looms in the background of any and all analysis of arbitration in the United States. I will begin by briefly noting the origins- and current regime of international commercial arbitration in the United States so to address the impact of its arbitration law and arbitral institutions on arbitration globally. I will then offer thoughts on the prospective evolution of international arbitration in the United States and how that may change the directions of legal procedural processes both in the United States and abroad. I. ORIGINS- AND CURRENT REGIME OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION IN THE USA As arbitration flourishes as the choice for commercial disputes, there is no doubt that the United States has become a newfound hub for arbitration. It was not always this way, however. The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) of 1925 established a steady road to an increasingly pro-arbitration policy, in three chapters, that shows itself in case-law as: when in doubt, favor arbitration.[3] The first chapter of the FAA establishes the framework for arbitration seated in the U.S. and provides the grounds for enforceable arbitration agreements and awards, while the second and third chapters implement the 1958 New York Convention and 1975 Panama Conventions, respectively. The strictly pro-arbitration policy does not lack in its own confusion, however, because of its basis in an otherwise federalist system. The FAA has largely remained unchanged since its nascence and has thus, left a substantive amount of discretion in interpreting arbitration law in the United States to the Supreme Court. One such source of confusion in U.S. arbitration law due to a lack of amendment lies in the term “arbitrability.” Arbitrability is the susceptibility of a case to be resolved by way of arbitration. In order to define the parameters of this susceptibility, the Supreme Court has distinguished between “procedural” and “substantive” arbitrability, wherein the former concerns itself with “prerequisites such as time limits, notices, laches, estoppel, and other conditions” and the latter, with a court’s decision.[4] The benefits to arbitration remain unmatched for commercial entities, however, which inspires the aforementioned pro-arbitration policy despite any real judicial framework. Arbitration allows parties to customize their dispute resolution by choosing the venue, applicable procedural law, and an expert adjudicator who may be more familiar with the intricacies of the dispute, among other benefits. There is a commitment to secrecy that is not found in the common court and the single, binding, and final resolution of a dispute through arbitration is the precise source of criticism that inspires the flock towards arbitration. Without the federal rules of civil procedure that would otherwise govern litigation, arbitration is governed by the procedural rules that each side agrees upon. The FAA paved the way for case law in the United States that would eventually shape a stronger pro-arbitration policy than ever—counseling against “even the mildest interference by courts in the conduct of U.S.-seated arbitrations.”[5] II. THE IMPACT OF U.S. ARBITRATION LAW AND U.S. ARBITRAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE WORLD OF ARBITRATION Assessing the impact of U.S. arbitration law begins by assessing what characterizes U.S. law: civil procedure. The adversarial form of litigation in which procedural tools are employed by advocates to advance arguments in a distinct style distinguishes the United States from other countries—and this feature inevitably slipped, in some capacity, into global arbitral institutions. Because the Rules of Arbitration for the International Chamber of Commerce are so brief,[6] American lawyers had tremendous flexibility in bringing American trial procedures with them. This came specifically in the form of document production for discovery and cross-examinations “to confront adverse witnesses.”[7] Critics refer to these added procedures as costly in both time and expense, defining them as the source of the “Americanization” of arbitration. Yet, while there is truth to such criticism, it may be more accurate to acknowledge the incorporation of aspects of American trial procedure as one country’s influence on arbitration. Far from inheriting solely American practice, global arbitral institutions maintain classic procedural tools while assimilating facets of each major country’s influence on arbitration.[8] III. THE PROSPECTIVE EVOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION IN THE USA Apart from being a source of revenue,[9] international arbitration is the natural response to the increase in “trade, investment, and supply-chain relationships” that hope to live free of potential biases from domestic fora.[10] The California Supreme Court may have briefly lost sight of this when deciding Birbrower, wherein attorneys not admitted to the bar of a certain state are not only ineligible to recover attorney’s fee but also, may be fined for unauthorizing practice of law.[11] Since Birbrower over two decades ago, however, the California Legislature unanimously passed Senate Bill 766. Under SB 766, non-California lawyers are able to represent parties in international arbitration proceedings in California, bringing California to the arbitration table. As home to Silicon Valley – and even aside from big technology, home to some of the largest companies in the world – California’s SB 766 will bring a swath of arbitration proceedings to its terrain. While California may certainly work in tandem with New York as the home to arbitration for technology and privacy concerns, reserving trade and investment disputes for New York, California may very well be the next major hub of arbitration. Already, it has received massive interest in being an arbitration destination. SB 766 will transform that interest into a revenue. It thus becomes all the more important, internationally, to understand and confront the ways in which the Americanization of arbitration would take place. [1] See, e.g. Thomas E. Carbonneau, Revolution in Law Through Arbitration, The Eighty-Fourth Cleveland-Marshall Fund Visiting Scholar Lecture, 56 Clev. St. L. Rev. 233, 233 n.3 (2008), available at https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/clevstlrev/vol56/iss2/3 (“judicial decision-making has shifted from rights protection to guaranteeing access to some form of adjudication. As a result, law and adjudication have become less sacramental.”) [2] See American Arbitration Association, Adr.Org, https://adr.org/ (last visited Dec. 28, 2019). [3] See, e.g., Moses H. Cone Memorial Hosp. v. Mercury Construction Corp., 460 U.S. 1, 24-25 (1983) (“[A]ny doubts concerning the scope of arbitrable issues should be resolved in favor of arbitration …”). [4] See Howsam v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., 537 U.S. 79, 85 (2002) (distinguishing between “issues of substantive arbitrability [which] are for a court to decide and issues of procedural arbitrability, i.e., whether prerequisites such as time limits, notice, laches, estoppel, and other conditions precedent to an obligation to arbitrate have been met, [which] are for the arbitrators to decide.”) (citations omitted). [5] See Laurence Shore, Tai-Heng Cheng, Jenelle E. La Chuisa, Lawrence Schaner, and Mara V.J Senn, International Arbitration in the United States 1, 320 (2018). [6] George M. von Mehrem and Alana C. Jochum, Is International Arbitration Becoming Too American?, 2 Global Bus. L. Rev. 47, 51 (2011) available at https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/gblr/vol2/iss1/6. [7] Id. [8] Philip J. McConnaughay, Introduction to International Commercial Arbitration in Asia 1, xxix (2002). In support of his assertion, McConnaughay reports that from 1995 to 2000, China’s leading international arbitration commission, CIETAC, received 4,200 new international commercial arbitrations and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) received 1,394, totaling 5,594. Id. Note: interrogatories and depositions are not included. [9] See ICC (International Chamber of Commerce), ICC Arbitration Figures Reveal New Record for Awards in 2018, https://iccwbo.org/media-wall/news-speeches/icc-arbitration-figures-reveal-new-record-cases-awards-2018/. [10] Daily Journal, International Arbitration Finally Comes to California, Howard B. Miller, https://www.dailyjournal.com/mcle/330-international-arbitration-finally-comes-to-california. [11] See generally, Birbrower, Montalbano, Condon & Frank v. Superior Court, 17 Cal. 4th 119 (1998).

La fabrication, l’utilisation et la vente aux États-Unis d’un produit couvert par un brevet américain, sans l’autorisation du breveté, constitue une contrefaçon de ce brevet. Toutefois, certains développements législatifs et des décisions de justice rendues ces dernières années ont montré que la portée d’un brevet américain pouvait être étendue à des activités se produisant en dehors du territoire américain. The unauthorized making use or sale within the United States of a product covered by a U.S. patent infringes the patent. However, in many cases damages and liability for infringing U.S. patents can extend beyond purely domestic uses to cover activities taking place far outside the United States. U.S. patents may cover activities that have little or nothing to do with the United States. Many companies are unaware of this surprisingly broad geographic reach. This article reviews such activities.

The Uniform Act related cooperative societies (UA-COOP) is the main source of cooperative law in all the seventeen States parties to the OHADA founding Treaty. Ten years after its entry into force (2011-2021), the aim of this study is to assess the level of enforcement of this Act. More concretely, the aim is to compare the state of cooperative law at the time of the entry into force of the UA-COOP (2011) with the current situation (in 2021). Such a comparison should make it possible to assess the contribution of the UA-COOP to the development of cooperative law and strengthening of national cooperative movements in the OHADA zone.

L'Acte uniforme sur les procédures collectives d’apurement du passif révisé a considérablement amélioré la situation du débiteur à travers le renforcement des mesures de sauvetage et la légitimation du droit au rebond qui lui permet sous certaines conditions de bénéficier de la purge de ses dettes. Ce changement de paradigme devrait absolument tenir compte des intérêts des créanciers qui attendent désespérément le règlement de leurs créances. L’ambition de la présente étude est de démontrer que malgré le vent de la modernité, le législateur OHADA n’en a pas tenu compte dans la dernière réforme de la matière collective au vu de l’importance des ajustements qui profitent principalement au débiteur. Ce renforcement des mesures de protection en faveur d’un seul protagoniste n’augure pas des lendemains meilleurs dans un espace juridique où les États membres n’ont pas la culture, encore moins des possibilités de consentir facilement aux entreprises nécessiteuses, des crédits comparables à ceux régulièrement obtenus des créanciers.

Les femmes entrepreneures se heurtent à de nombreux obstacles pour mener à bien leur processus d’entrepreneuriat dans les pays en développement. Ces obstacles sont associés à une faible inclusion financière ainsi qu’à des normes et cultures spécifiques qui définissent les rôles des femmes dans la société. Les résultats de notre étude montrent que les programmes mis en oeuvre pour accompagner l’entrepreneuriat féminin s’attellent davantage à la promotion de l’entrepreneuriat, plutôt que de s’attaquer aux causes de l’écart observé entre les hommes et les femmes dans le succès entrepreneurial.

仲裁作为解决国际商事争议的主要方式之一，受到国际工程承包企业的青睐，然而当事人在决定一个案件是否要提起仲裁时，常会把仲裁费用作为一个重要考量指标，高昂的仲裁费用可能会限制国际商事仲裁制度的健康发展。本文以2017版国际商会仲裁规则下的收费标准为基础，从仲裁费用的构成、计算方法入手，探讨了仲裁费用影响因素，并给出了控制仲裁过程费用的合理化建议。 Arbitration, as one of the main ways to resolve international commercial disputes, remains a popular choice for international engineering company. The arbitration fees will be an important evaluating indicator when the parties considering apply for arbitration. Expensive arbitration fees may restrict the healthy development of international commercial arbitration system. Based on the arbitration cost and fees under the arbitration rules of the 2017 edition of the International Chamber of Commerce, characteristics, composition and calculation method of the arbitration fees are showed in this paper firstly; then, its influencing factors are discussed. Reasonable suggestions for controlling the arbitration fees are given in the end of this paper.

Sovereign rights in Exclusive economic zones and Continental shelves are functionally limited to the economic exploitation of these zones. Moreover, in the case of disputed maritime zones these sovereign rights are neither exclusive nor necessarily constant. Nevertheless, states are still expected to provide the investments established in these zones the same treatment they should provide in their territories where they exercise full and constant sovereignty. If a host state agrees to the establishment of an investment in a maritime zone that become later contested, do the occurrence of the contestation and the hazards arising from such contestation relief the host state from its contractual and treaty obligations toward the investment by virtue of the force majeure concept. This paper argues that a traditional interpretation of the force majeure concept in respect of investment agreements and contracts, hampers states ability to de-escalate their maritime disputes, diminishes its capacity to conclude delimitation agreements and reduces the promotion of the UNCLOS III as well as its mechanisms for disputes settlement. It proposes a contextualist interpretation of the force majeure concept that is adapted to the exploitation of disputed maritime zones and states obligations under the international law of the sea. First, it examines the concept of force majeure as a doc-trinal hypothesis and its applications in international contracts and international in-vestment agreements. Second, it analyzes the legal act of maritime contestation as a force majeure event according to the possible interpretations of the concept of “force majeure”. Finally, it examines the recurrent legal implications susceptible of arising out of a contestation; provisional orders and unfavorable delimitation and their qualifica-tion as a force majeure event in the realm of investment agreements and contract.

In the Australian case of Bywater Investments Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation; Hua Wang Bank Berhad v Commissioner of Taxation (the Bywater case) the Australian High Court dealt with the question of whether certain companies were resident in Australia for income tax purposes. The majority answered this question by applying Australian domestic law. In a separate but concurring judgement, Gordon J also discussed the interpretation and application of the relevant double taxation treaty. This contribution analyses Gordon J's judgment to extract guidance from it for the South African courts on their interpretation of double taxation treaties. It is submitted that South African courts should also follow the "first step" proposed by Gordon J when interpreting double taxation treaties. South African courts may find Gordon J's judgment "instructive" when dealing with the interpretation of the "place of effective management" concept in both domestic law and double taxation treaties. In his judgment Gordon J favours the goal of common interpretation and it is argued that South African courts should follow this example and explicitly support this notion in applicable cases. From Gordon J's judgment and the judgement in Krok v Commissioner, South African Revenue Service, it is deduced that the positions in South Africa and Australia are similar in that the courts in both countries will be bound by the principles of Articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties when interpreting double taxation treaties. Moreover, Gordon J's judgment indicates that the domestic principles of interpretation should not be used in the interpretation of double taxation treaties. Recent South African cases have suggested that there are no differences between the South African domestic principles of interpretation and those contained in Articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. This contribution submits that there are many similarities between the two, but that the rules are not exactly the same. South African courts should be aware of these differences and rather apply the rules of public international law, including those contained in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, when they interpret double taxation treaties. Gordon J specifically identifies the category of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in which he places the Commentary on the OECD Model Tax Convention, to rely on it for his interpretation of the relevant double taxation treaty. South African courts may well learn from this approach, to create more certainty in the process of interpreting a double taxation treaty.

Amid COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in the year 2020, Economic Community of West African States hereafter called ECOWAS quietly celebrated its forty-five years of establishment. Widely, much was not heard of or written about the community probably due to the challenges of the pandemic. However, the address of the President of ECOWAS Commission to the staff of ECOWAS institutions on the occasion of the commemoration of the community’s forty-fifth anniversary serves as a reminder that attention should also be given to this regional giant against all odds. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to celebrate ECOWAS at forty-five and then examine whether it is a fool at forty that is proverbially referred to as a fool forever. The paper, through thorough examination of the data collected from secondary sources finds that ECOWAS is still far from achieving its main mandate, its achievements as orchestrated by His Excellency, the President notwithstanding. The paper argues that the postponement of the establishment of ECO, a common currency for the region for the sixth time from 2020 to yet to be announced date, lack of realistic free movement of persons and goods among members and selfish interests of its leaders in the guise of national interest are enough reasons to conceive ECOWAS as a fool at forty-five. With the aid of constructivist theory,it concludes that even if ECOWAS at forty-five is still fooling around it has the chances of not being a fool forever if the leaders should turn a new leaf and pursue the attainment of the community’s mandate before its fiftieth anniversary.

The European Parliament's resolution of October 20, 2020, which aims to establish a new liability regime for the operators of artificial intelligence, is the product of a long consultation process. These consultations made it possible to find a balance between protecting the victim and safeguarding the innovation capacity of economic actors. The European Union wants to be a pioneer in the regulation of artificial intelligence and has decided to legislate in a binding manner. This initiative now wait for the agree of the European Commission.

Les relations entre la banque et ses clients peuvent être de divers ordres, mais le point le plus sensible est celui relatif au secret bancaire qui par ricochet concerne le respect de la vie privée du client de la banque. Le respect du secret bancaire est consacré par le législateur Camerounais à travers la loi du 21 avril 2003 relative au secret bancaire, cette loi énumère les sanctions liées à la violation dudit secret, tout en déterminant les sujets et objet y relatifs. Toutefois, dans la pratique, un constat alarmant a été fait, celui de certaines restrictions du secret bancaire qui conduit inexorablement à la violation de la vie privée du client de la banque. C’est ainsi que dans le cadre de la lutte contre le blanchiment des capitaux, et dans le cadre des rapports entre la banque avec les autorités publiques et de contrôle, la violation du secret bancaire devient autorisée, et jouit d’une double consécration de l’exemption de responsabilité en cas de violation dudit secret. Cette double consécration est le fait des législateurs Camerounais et communautaire CEMAC. Ce qui ne tend pas à favoriser le respect de la vie privée du client de la banque dans la mesure où les suspicions qui conduisent à communiquer les informations relatives au secret bancaire peuvent ne pas être fondées, et malgré cela, il y aurait déjà eu violation du secret bancaire. The relations between banks and their clients are of various natures, but the most sensible point is that of banking secret which by ricochet concerns the privacy of the bank client. The respect of the banking secret is provided for by the Cameroon legislator through the Law of 21 April 2003 regulating Banking Secret. This law enumerates the sanctions imposed when this bank secret is violated, at the same time determining the parties and objects involved. Meanwhile an alarming note has been taken. There are certain restrictions to the banking secret that leads inexorably to the violation of the privacy of the bank client. In the aim to fight against money laundering and in the relations between banks and public authorities and of control, the violation of banking secret becomes authorized and benefits from a double consecration of exemption from responsibility in case of violation of the right to banking secret. This double consecration is provided by Cameroon and community CEMAC legislators. This does not favors the respect of the privacy of the bank client given that the suspicions leading to the communication of these information regarding the banking secret may not be founded and despite this, the right to banking secret would already be violated.

La croissance exponentielle de l’utilisation des réseaux sociaux par les salariés dans la relation de travail est un phénomène actuel en droit camerounais. Depuis les années 2000, Internet a consacré la montée en puissance des réseaux, devenus pour certains salariés de véritables médias sociaux, qui leur permettent de créer librement et partager des informations avec leurs réseaux. Ainsi, ces derniers bénéficient au dépend des lois, de la doctrine et de la jurisprudence, d’un droit fondamental qui est celui du droit à l’expression garanti par les libertés d’expression et amoureuse des salariés à l’ère des réseaux sociaux, bien que certaines réalités inhérentes à la relation de travail et relatives aux obligations des salariés et droits des employeurs, limitent ledit droit. Toutefois, le législateur camerounais, à l’exemple de ses homologues étrangers, devrait impérativement intégrer dans le prochain code du travail, les exigences de régulation générale, afin de faire face aux défis qui l’interpellent dans la relation de travail à l’ère du numérique. The exponential growth in the use of social networks by employees in the employment relationship is a current phenomenon in Cameroonian law. Since the 2000s, the internet has seen the rise of networks, which for some employees have become true social media, which allow them to freely create and share information with their networks. Thus, the latter benefit at the expense of laws, doctrine and jurisprudence, from a fundamental right which is that of the right to expression, guaranteed by freedom of expression and in love with employees in the era of networks that certain realities inherent in the employment relationship concerning the obligations of employees and the rights of employers, limit said right. However, the Cameroonian legislator, following the example of his foreign counterparts, should imperatively integrate in the next labor code, the requirements of general regulation, in order to face the challenges that challenge him in the employment relationship in the digital age.

هدفت الدراسة إلى استكشاف مدى قدرة المستحقات المحاسبية قصيرة األجل على التنبؤ بالتدفقات النقدية، حيث شملت 14 شركة جزائرية بين 2003 و،2015 ليبلغ عدد المشاهدات الكلية خالل الفترة 117 مشاهدة. وقد تم قياس التدفقات النقدية بصافي التدفقات النقدية التشغيلية، وتم التعبير عن المستحقات المحاسبية قصيرة األجل بـ: التغير في حسابات الزبائن والمدينين، التغير في حسابات الموردين والدائنين، والتغير في المخزونات. وقد أثبتت النتائج ضعف قدرة المستحقات المحاسبية قصيرة األجل على التنبؤ بالتدفقات النقدية للفترة المقبلة، حيث كانت عالقة هذه األخيرة ببنود المستحقات المحاسبية قصيرة األجل غير معنوية، باستثناء عالقتها بالتغير في حسابات الموردين والدائنين This study aims to explore the ability of short-term accounting accruals to predict cash flows. It included 117 observations during 2003 to 2015, which concern 14 Algerian companies. Cash flows have been measured by operating cash flow (OCF). However, short-term accounting accruals have been expressed by change of accounts receivable and debtors, change of accounts payable and creditors, and change of inventories. The results indicated a failure of current short-term accounting accruals to predict cash flows of next period. Except for change of accounts receivable and debtors, the correlations of future operating cash flows with other Short-term accounting accrual items are not significant.

This study deals with a statement the parties to form in the framework of increased participation in Islamic Insurance Company, and describes the types of claimants of the company to fulfill its obligations, as well as providing a detailed mechanism on how to manage the Islamic Insurance Company through the increasing capital participation model, which is represented through a common portfolio that combines the capital of both the shareholders and the policyholders, this model represents the Islamic Insurance Company asa capital-based company, where the policyholders have the ability to increase their shares.This model will satisfy the different needs and wants of customers of the Islamic insurance company.And in order to achieve these goals, the study illustrated themain operations of the Islamic insurance company through five offices of operation: the first office: Reception Customer Service and being decades increasingly involved with the campaign documents,SecondOffice: operations management, which are contractsfor trade-offs with service providers on one hand, and the beneficiaries of Islamic insurance in all sectors on the other hand, Third Office: Accounting Department of Interior, which manages the contracts of partnerships with service providers, The fourth Office: Management of exit and liquidation, which regulates contracts trade-offs with the beneficiaries of insurance, and the fifth Office: Management of audit and control, together with the benchmarks to help the success of the application form to participate in the growing Islamic insurance company.This study has concluded that founding the relationship between the policyholders and the Islamic insurance company on the basis of a capital-based company, where the company management is employed for the purpose ofinvesting the company assets, In exchange for a return, in a way that achieves the goals of both the Islamic insurance company and thegoals of thepolicyholders. This foundation is concluded to be the optimal Islamic module, for it achievesIslamiccredibility and economic efficiency, as well as achieving harmony between the intents of the policyholders and the shareholders in the Islamic insurance company.

L’objectif de cette recherche est de  démontrer qu'il est possible de promouvoir l’entrepreneuriat territorial (ET) agricole capitalisant les opportunités de la CEMAC. la méthode hypothético déductive est appliquée au cas de PIDMA. Les résultats prouvent que le PIDMA dispose des capacités de promouvoir un entrepreneuriat territorial agricole capitalisant les opportunités de la CEMAC sous certaines conditions.