Bibliographie sélective OHADA

Les problèmes de santé publique continuent de plomber les perspectives de développement des pays membres de l’Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI). Pour les résoudre, il faut tenir compte de l’impact du système des brevets sur l’accès aux soins de santé des populations, dans un contexte international marqué par le renforcement des droits de propriété intellectuelle depuis l’adoption de l’Accord sur les Aspects des Droits de Propriété Intellectuelle qui touchent au Commerce (ADPIC) en 1994 et la révision de l’Accord de Bangui de l’OAPI en 1999. En réalité, la question de l’efficacité du système des brevets dans la protection de la santé publique est loin d’être close. Pour l’apprécier, la présente étude pose en postulat la primauté de l’intérêt de la santé publique sur les droits privatifs des inventeurs. Ainsi, le droit OAPI intègre les considérations de santé publique en admettant à la brevetabilité les inventions y relatives, et en prévoyant des limitations au droit des brevets dans l’intérêt de la santé publique. Ce faisant, le système des brevets présente des signes d’inadaptation, pour des raisons intrinsèques, mais aussi au regard du faible niveau de développement et des spécificités du système de santé dans les pays membres de l’OAPI, avec notamment la forte présence de la médecine traditionnelle. Il semble néanmoins possible d’aménager un cadre incitatif permettant de concilier les impératifs de santé et les droits privatifs des inventeurs. A travers une analyse économique du droit des brevets appliquée à la santé publique, l’étude replace en définitive l’Etat au centre de la problématique de l’efficacité des normes juridiques.

Dans son sens originaire, le principe compétence-compétence permet au tribunal arbitral, comme à tout juge, de statuer sur sa compétence. En droit français, il s’est transformé en règle de conflit entre justice publique et justice privée doublement originale : d’une part, il repose sur l’exercice coordonné du pouvoir de juger de la compétence ; d’autre part, il est pluraliste. Enclenché par l’apparence vraisemblable d’une convention d’arbitrage, le principe compétence-compétence consiste en un mécanisme composite se déployant dans le temps du procès arbitral et dans l’espace des deux ordres juridiques considérés. Ainsi, trois règles distinctes permettent à chacune des justices – justice française et justice arbitrale – de connaître de sa propre compétence de manière coordonnée. Tout d’abord, en amont et en parallèle de l’instance arbitrale, l’effet négatif de la compétence-compétence paralyse le pouvoir des juridictions étatiques de statuer sur leur compétence. Ensuite, le temps du procès arbitral, l’effet positif de la compétence-compétence des tribunaux arbitraux reconnaît à ces derniers le pouvoir de juger de leur compétence. Enfin, au stade post-arbitral, l’effet positif de la compétence-compétence des juridictions publiques permet à ces dernières de retrouver le pouvoir de statuer sur leur compétence lors des recours ouverts contre la sentence. Chacune des règles examinées connait limites ou écueils. Parfois, l’équilibre est rompu soit au profit des juridictions d’Etat, soit au profit des juridictions arbitrales. Force est de constater que le caractère pluraliste du principe compétence-compétence est tantôt réalité, tantôt mirage.

L'objet de cette thèse est d'apprécier l'efficacité des procédures collectives d'un point de vue à la fois ex ante et ex post au regard de trois critères : leur efficacité financière, leur efficacité sociale et leur cohérence macroéconomique. Il s'agit d'une part d'analyser la trajectoire économique et financière du défaut et son traitement judiciaire afin de déterminer les coûts potentiels induits par les objectifs sociaux (la préservation de l'emploi) du droit français de la défaillance en termes de recouvrements pour les créanciers. Nous obtenons que, le traitement judiciaire du défaut est en France mis en oeuvre dans l'esprit des objectifs définis et hiérarchisés par la loi et que le tribunal entreprend des mesures afin de défendre non seulement les intérêts sociaux, mais également, une fois ceux-ci protégés, les intérêts financiers; ce résultat infirme notre hypothèse selon laquelle ces deux objectifs sont inconciliables. D'autre part, nous adoptons une approche Law and Finance afin de lier les codes de défaillance aux environnements nationaux. Nous proposons une appréciation du degré de cohérence macroéconomique du défaut, lequel constitue selon nous un élément de son efficacité.

International electricity trade disputes can arise at three key levels: state to state; investor to state; private party to private party. Parties may be more open to submission of their disputes to international arbitration. However, they should make proper arbitration options according to the types of disputes. At the same time, considering the risks facing dispute resolution, it is imperative to specifically design effective tools to mitigate these risks.

Le mouvement progressiste de la mondialisation pose des exigences fortes sur les ports africains, comme le Sénégal, en termes de volumes et de la qualité des infrastructures, de la fréquence des opérations de dragage et de l'efficacité des ports. Cela est aisément compréhensible, du fait qu'une bonne politique de gestion portuaire est importante pour assurer l'efficacité du transport maritime d'un pays. L'objectif étant la compétitivité des ports. Seulement, au Sénégal, cet objectif n'est pas toujours facile à atteindre à cause de la difficile cohabitation entre service public et développement économique. En effet, la plupart des règlements régissant la gestion des ports fait référence au service public, instaurant du coup un mode de gestion étatique. Or, le développement économique fait plutôt intervenir des principes du droit privé. En outre, ces textes datant du lendemain de l'indépendance, se pose le problème de compatibilité entre les besoins réels et actuels du pays et l'efficacité de ces textes. Ainsi peut-on s'interroger sur la rentabilité de ce mode de gestion : le Sénégal est-il capable de protéger son domaine public portuaire et de le rentabiliser en même temps (au vu de ce qui se passe surtout dans les autres ports du pays) ? Ou devrait-il y avoir un autre mode de gestion qui, bien sûr, tiendra compte de l'intérêt du système ?

L'impressionnante évolution de l'industrie de la gestion au cours de ces quinze dernières années, notamment par l'utilisation des techniques de gestion ct de financements novatrices ainsi que le recours à des produits structurés de plus en plus complexes, a conduit l'industrie des d'OPCVM à vivre de profondes mutations. En effet, le caractère puhlic de l'épargne collective et le rôle stratégique que jouent les OPCVM en matière de sa canalisation vers le secteur productif, ont conduit le législateur à confier le contrôle de ces organismes à divers organes. L'efficacité, la productivité et la transparence sont de nos jours les maîtres mots dans les milieux financiers. Tous les opérateurs se trouvent dans l'obligation de mettre en œuvre des règles plus pertinentes et plus rigoureuses pour gagner cette bataille. L'étude du contrôle des OPCVM, revient à occulter l'un des principes essentiels des marchés financiers : la nécessité de sécurité et de confiance. En effet, les investisseurs ne s'engageront dans des placements financiers, que si les produits proposés offrent des garanties suffisantes. Cette confiance peut être établie par le contrôle exercé sur ces derniers, ce contrôle est réglementaire ou légale, il s'agit du commissaire aux comptes, en tant qu'organe classique des sociétés, le contrôle interne comme atout des OPCVM, le dépositaire comme organe original de ces derniers et enfin l'organe clef de la protection des marchés financiers qui est l'autorité de tutelle.

This paper describes the origins, structure, and practical impact of the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA). It analyzes the institutional framework created via the OHADA Treaty and the legal, jurisprudential, and functional challenges that OHADA Member States are still grappling with. Details of the nine substantive laws that have so far been ratified as uniform acts by means of the treaty have also been provided. The authors conclude that in making OHADA law effective, Member States face continuing and substantial resource deficits, institutional deficiencies, language ambiguities, and intransigent official attitudes toward the need for appropriate mechanisms for the pursuance and enforcement of OHADA laws and processes.

Using a gravity model for 35 countries and the years 1995-2006 we estimate the impact of regional trade agreements in Africa (in particular ECOWAS and SADC) and compare this to the a benchmark of North South trade integration (Europe‟s preferential trade agreement). We find that  ECOWAS and SADC membership significantly increases bilateral trade flows (and by more than for example preferential trade agreements with the EU do),  SADC membership has a stronger impact compared to ECOWAS and  that the impact of multi-membership critically depends on the characteristics of the overlapping RTA We find a positive impact if an additional membership complements the integration process of the original RTA: overlapping memberships had a significant positive effect on bilateral trade within the ECOWAS bloc but it is insignificant for SADC.

Uluslararası ticaretle ilgili alım satım sözleşmelerinde temel olan edimlerden birisi de ödeme dir. Türk hukuk sisteminde kullanıldığı şekli ile Vesaik mukabili ödeme uluslararası ticaretin önemli ödeme araçlarından birisidir.Uluslararası ticaret hukukunda bu konu hakkında tüm ülkeler açısından geçerli olan bir yasal düzenleme yoktur. Bu yüzden bazı örgütler, bu boşluğu doldurmayı amaçlamışlardır. Bu örgütlerden biri Uluslararası Ticaret Odası dır. Uluslararası Ticaret Odası, uluslar arası ticaretin yeknesak kurallara bağlanmasını amaç edinmiştir. Bunun için bazı broşürler yayınlamaktadır. Vesaik Mukabili Ödeme' ye ilişkin olarak, URC 522 kısaltmasıyla anılan, Tahsiller İçin Yeknesak Kurallar broşürünü yayınlamıştır. En son gözden geçirme çalışmaları 1995 yılında yapılmıştır. Bu yayının amacı, ortak dil ve anlayış birliğini sağlamak ve uluslar arası ticaretin daha hızlı, basit ve güvenli şekilde yürütülmesini gerçekleştirmektir.Türk hukuk sisteminde bu konuyu özel olarak düzenleyen bir yasa mevcut değildir. O yüzden uluslar arası ticaretle uğraşan kişilerin, vesaik mukabili ödeme yöntemini kullanarak ithalat-ihracat yapmak istediklerinde başvurabilecekleri kurallar URC 522 yayınıdır. Uluslararası ticarette taraflar URC 522 adıyla anılan yeknesak kuralların, kendi sözleşmelerine uygulanmasını sağlayabileceklerdir. Aksi durumda, yeknesak kurallar uygulanamayacaktır. Bu durumda, devletler özel hukuku kurallarına göre, söz konusu sözleşmeye uygulanacak hukukun tespiti gereklidir. Bu durumda ülkelerin milli hukuklarının, uluslar arası ticarete etkileri söz konusu olmaktadır. Yeknesak kuralların, kendiliğinden uygulanması söz konusu değildir.Uluslararası ticarette yeknesak kuralların varlığı olası problemleri en aza indirgemek açısından önemli ve gereklidir. […] One of the basic performances in international sale contract is payment. There are different types of payment methods in international trade law. Besides Letter of Credit Documents against payment? has an important place not only in Turkish export trade law but also in international business area.There is no current law arrangement about this payment method for all nations in international trade law. Therefore some organization have aimed to fill this legal loophole. One of this organizations is International Chamber of Commerce. This organization has aimed international trade to be tied with uniform rules. Therefore it has published some brochures. It has prepared and published Uniform Rules for Collections shortly called as URC 522 related documentary collections. Last revision was done in 1995. This brochure?s aim is to ensure common understanding and common language, and to be conducted more faster, guaranteed and easier of international trade.There are no special legal arrangement about this subject in Turkish legal system. Therefore, the actors who want to make export-import is mostly use the documents published in the brochure no URC 522.Parties of international trade can ensure application of the uniform rules called as URC 522 to their sales contracts. At the contrary case, uniform rules for collections is not applied. About this case, applicable law rules of Private International Law has to be determined to according contract. In such case, nations law regulations appear to effect in international trade. Uniform rules does not applicable per se.Existance of uniform rules in international trade is important and necessary for reducing possible problems.

La doctrine de l’intérêt assurable s’est développée en réponse à une pratique des paris jugée comme immorale ainsi que pour lutter contre la destruction volontaire de navires. Mais depuis, les standards de moralité ont changé, les paris ne sont plus interdits et ils sont mieux encadrés afin de protéger le consommateur. La réglementation sur l’assurance s’est développée tout comme le rôle de l’assurance dans l’économie mondiale. Ces observations poussent à la réflexion sur la nécessité de l’obligation d’intérêt assurable. Est-ce que la société a encore besoin de se prémunir contre les paris sous forme d’assurances ? La doctrine de l’intérêt assurable a‐t‐elle aujourd’hui une utilité différente ? L’intérêt assurable est-il un frein au développement de nouvelles formes d’assurances mieux adaptées au développement de l’industrie maritime ? Afin de pouvoir répondre à ces interrogations, il est important d’examiner la notion d’intérêt assurable (partie I) avant d’étudier son application aux assurances maritimes (partie II).

Modern dönemde ticarî hayatta ortaya çıkan mübadele yöntemlerini İslâm ticaret hukuku açısından değerlendirebilmek ve İslâm'ın ticarî alandaki temel ilkelerine aykırı işlemlere alternatif yöntemler üretebilmek için öncelikle vahiy dönemindeki ticaret hukukunu tespit etmek gerekmektedir. Vahiy dönemindeki ticaret hukukunun sağlıklı bir şekilde anlaşılabilmesi ise dönemin ticarî kurallarının sosyolojik açıdan incelenmesini zorunlu kılmaktadır. Bu amaçla yapılan bu araştırmada ulaşılan sonuçları kısaca şu şekilde ifade etmek mümkündür:Cahiliye döneminde Hicaz bölgesinde sosyal hayat, bölgenin coğrafî yapısı ile dönemin siyasî ve dinî şartları etkisi altında sürdürülmüştür. Yeni bir yaşam biçiminin hedeflendiği vahiy döneminde toplumsal hayatın bütün ünitelerinde değişikliğe gidilmiş, Hicazlılar'ın iktisadî tecrübe ve ihtiyaçları göz önünde bulundurularak yeni bir ticaret hukuku oluşturulmuştur. Mekke devrinde, Hz. Peygamber kanun koyup uygulayacak siyasî güce sahip olmadığı için, hayatın diğer alanlarında olduğu gibi ticaret hukuku alanında da temel ahlâkî değerler müslüman tebaaya benimsetilmeye çalışılmakla yetinilmiştir. Hicretten sonra Medine'de siyasî ve askerî bakımdan yeterli güce kavuşulunca ekonomik sisteme müdahale edilmeye başlanmıştır. Bir önceki dönemden devralınan ticarî kurum ve işlemler adalet eksenli yeni hukukî ve ahlâkî kurallara göre değerlendirilmeye tabi tutulmuştur. Ticaret hayatında yapılan değişiklikler içtimaî kurallara uygun bir şekilde gerçekleştirilmiştir. Yeni hukukî düzenlemelerin kargaşaya meydan vermemesi için gerekli görülen konularda tedricî yöntem uygulanmış ve alternatif uygulamalar devreye sokulmuştur. Öte yandan toplumsal yapıyı oluşturan diğer kurumlarda gerçekleştirilen değişiklikler de yeni ticaret hukukunun kolaylıkla topluma mal edilmesinde oldukça etkili olmuştur. […] Occurring in the commercial life of modern methods of exchange, to assess in terms of commercial law of Islam, and contrary to the fundamental principles of commercial transactions in the field of Islam in order to produce alternative methods, primarily trade law to determine the required period of revelation. Revelation during the period of commercial law in a healthy way to understand the rules of trade requires a review of the sociological perspective. For this purpose, the results achieved in this study, it is possible to briefly stated as follows:The period of ignorance of social life in the Hijaz, the region's geographical structure and the period continued under the influence of political and religious conditions. Revelation in a new way of life, social life aimed to change all the units were made, considering the economic needs of the people of Hijaz experience and created a new trade law. Mecca during the reign of the Prophet put the law does not have the power to implement the political, as in other areas of life in the field of commercial law to teach basic moral values were muslims. After the migration, the strength is reached Medina, the political and military respects, the economic system started to intervene. Commercial institutions and processes inherited from the previous period, according to the rules of justice-oriented evaluation has been subject to new legal and moral. Changes to trade in his life was carried out in accordance with social rules. New legal challenge to prevent confusion in the arrangements, gradual method is applied to matters deemed necessary and alternative practices were introduced. On the other hand, changes in social structure in the new trade law is easily performed by other institutions in society to be the goods have been quite effective.

After the end of the Cold War, students of International Relations observed an expansion of inter-state activities at the regional level. Regional and sub-regional groupings appeared to gain momentum as the way in which countries cooperate and should cooperate to pursue peace, stability, wealth and social justice. The surge and resurgence of regionalism has triggered the proliferation of concepts and approaches. The focus of this paper will be on processes and structures of state-led regionalism driven by the delegation of policies and political authority to regional institutions. Based on this understanding of regionalism, the existing literature will be reviewed with regard to three general questions. These questions do not only require research across regions but also allow developing a common research agenda to accumulate knowledge generated about specific regions. First, what are the outcomes of regionalism? How can we describe and compare the results of the delegation of policies and political authority? Second, what are the drivers of regionalism? Why do some governments choose to delegate policies and political authority while others do not? Finally, what are the internal effects of regionalism? How does the delegation of policies and political authority impact back on the domestic structures of the states involved?

L'uniformité du droit du transport international de marchandises par mer GURVAN BRANELLEC Docteur en droit Enseignant-chercheur ESC Bretagne-Brest Chercheur associé UMR AMURE L'uniformité du droit exerce un attrait idéologique sur les esprits épris de systématisation. Comme le souligne le Professeur DELMAS-MARTY, « le droit a horreur du multiple. Sa vocation c'est l'ordre unifié et hiérarchisé, unifié parce que hiérarchisé ». Cette uniformité apparaît comme un idéal de simplicité, de méthode, d'ordre. L'uniformité étant rarement spontanée, l'intervention du législateur est nécessaire. Dans cette optique, l'unification législative apparaît comme un travail d'élaboration scientifique de la solution la plus appropriée aux besoins communs : un droit le plus efficace et le plus simple possible. L'uniformité semble ainsi être porteuse de simplification. Cette simplification résulte de la substitution d'un droit unique à la complexité du système juridique. L'uniformité permettrait aussi d'assurer l'effectivité du droit car « il semble que la multiplication des normes, leur instabilité, leur excessive complexité faite de sédiments successifs pas ou peu cohérents, rend presque impossible un respect scrupuleux du droit » .

This thesis addresses issues of the Niger Delta question which represents one of the most intractable sources of socio-political destabilization in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The study is on the intricate dynamics amongst the Nigerian state, the transnational oi l corporations, the oil producing communities and the insurgent militia conflict. It investigates and explicates the "paradox of plenty" and the "resource curse", the "absentee government" and "state capture" and the debilitating effects of petroleum politics in Nigeria. The economic exploitation of the Niger Delta region's vast crude oil reserves by transnational oil corporations and government authorities is juxtaposed with the spectre of environmental degradation, human rights violations, and the recurrent rule of impunity. The protracted problems of the Niger Delta region thus, provide us with a pertinent analytical and contextual framework for the study of the dynamics and issues of transparency in other African petro-dollar states. It is argued in this study that the Niger Delta crisis is a conflict of values and fight for resources arising from decades of unacceptable standards of oil exploration and the absentee character of the Nigerian State . By its very nature, the study called for a qualitative approach, supplemented by unstructured interviews using aide memoirs with selected officials, on the basis of their innate knowledge of the subject matter. The legal comparative research method, with a historic component also played an integral role in this study. Some key findings and conclusions: 1. The study found that the Niger Delta crisis graduated from mere political agitations for state creation and provision of social amenities to extreme acts of hostage-taking and a twist of violence as a result of treating a major problem affecting the development of the Niger Delta people with levity for too long a period. 2. The study found that the on-going crisis in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria is a conflict of values and fight for resources amongst the oil-bearing people of the Niger Delta, transnational oil corporations and the Nigerian Government. 3. The study established some causal nexus between oil and poverty; oil and corruption; and, oil and human rights abuses. 4. That, the Niger Delta crude oil conflict is essentially a manifestation of state capture and inertia on the part of the Nigerian Government. 5. The study found that the Niger Delta economies are "criminalized" and are often characterized by conditions of anarchy and impunity. And this disorder is embedded in the dynamics of resource extraction, the nature and role of "shadow" state actors, as well as the interplay and patterns of relationships between organized criminal syndicates and the transnational oil corporations in the host communities. The study recommends, inter alia: I. That steps be taken by government to re-define its philosophy of national economic development from a state-driven to citizens-driven philosophy. To this end, Nigeria must seek to develop by developing its citizens, the aggregate of whose satisfactory living conditions should form the criteria for measuring national development. II . That effort must be made to steer the nation towards proper fiscal federalism. The present "food is ready" economy whereby federating units are enslaved to national "cake sharing" instead of value generation, discourages entrepreneurship and sustainable development. It promotes undue dependency on petroleum products, inequity and ethnic distrust. Ill. That Nigeria needs productive resource control, not just development in the sense of house and bridge building. What is needed is a noticeable leap in the standard of living in the Niger Delta. Thus, people and not federal accounts must be the object of improvement. IV. It is recommended that government should ensure robust, independent and co-ordinated oversight of the oil industry including its impact on human rights. V. Transnational oil corporations should undertake full corporate social responsibility and comprehensive assessment of the social and human rights impacts of all oil and gas projects, ensuring that adequate information is provided to affected individuals and communities and that the process is transparent. VI. It is strongly recommended that an Oil Pollution Liability Trust Fund should be established by the Federal Government in concert with oil companies. The fund will be made up of a percentage of tax levied on oil companies and a percentage of earnings of the Federal Government from oil. The fund should be used in ameliorating the conditions of the impacted environment and people. It is hoped that these findings and recommendations will go a long way in the quest for significant environmental and social improvements in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is about the relationship of organisations with society as a whole, and the need for organisations to align their values with societal expectations. Generally, CSR practice in Africa is thought to be adopted from Western business theories although there is evidence to suggest that Western CSR theories are not totally applicable in Africa. This is due to differences in drivers or causes of CSR in the West and in Africa, as well as cultural and managerial traits in Africa. This paper explores the limits of Western CSR Theories in Africa and argues that improved ethical responsibilities, incorporating good governance should be assigned the highest CSR priority in developing countries. It further adds that increased legislation, change in CSR priorities and the application of indigenous CSR theories such as Ubuntu, African Renaissance and Omuluwabi are means of countering the limits of Western CSR theories in Africa. Keywords: CSR, Western CSR Theory, Africa, Ubuntu, African Renaissance, Omuluwabi