Bibliographie sélective OHADA

The last reform of the Uniform Act on General Commercial Law OHADA reconsidered several pieces of commercial law. The concept of leasing has not been spared. She, who was accompanied by the "commercial" substantive, has been transformed into "commercial lease". Question of style or simple semantics? Certainly not, because the legislature in 1997, had not previously dared revise the designation commercial lease that no longer fit with the extension of the beneficiaries he had devoted himself. With the reform of December 2010, the institution of the lease has just renamed. Parliament also confirmed the extension of the scope of economic actors involved in the protection of the lease. The regime of former Uniform Act was therefore not fully extended, particularly since we noted another significant change in the new text. Contrary to former Article 69 which devoted two cumulative criteria necessary for the implementation of the lease of the regime, including the situation in a populated city of more than 5,000 people and membership of local under lease to a designated class2, the new text retains a single criterion, that of belonging to a local specific category. This mutation disrupts some basics of goodwill theory. Indeed, with the increasing scope of lessees, there is a sliding protection to professional trader. This causes result in a substitution of the lease of the foundation that passes from customer to the profession. The loss of the privileged place of business customers coupled with doctrinal and jurisprudential developments in the theory of civil customers, argue for an assimilation of the different customer categories.

La systématisation du contenu et des fonctions de la notion d’économie du contrat en droit français a abouti au postulat d’une théorie dite de l’économie du contrat. Dans son article, l’auteur tente d’en poser les jalons en dépassant l’approche dogmatique adoptée jusqu’ici par la doctrine française et belge. Il expose ainsi une nouvelle approche qui marque le passage de la notion à la théorie de l’économie du contrat en tant que théorie réaliste d’interprétation prenant en considération l’esprit général des clauses et la concrétisation de la volonté commune des parties d’après l’équilibre et la finalité de l’opération contractuelle. Cette théorie véhicule l’idée d’un contrat-opération qui se situe dans une perspective interdisciplinaire de l’analyse du phénomène contractuel, à contre-courant du modèle du contrat-obligation du Code Napoléon et du Code civil du Québec.

Les enjeux liés à la lutte contre la criminalité transfrontalière et le raffermissement du Marché commun ont amené le législateur communautaire à jeter les bases d’un espace pénal commun dans la Communauté économique et monétaire des États de l’Afrique centrale (CEMAC). Intervenant dans un domaine où la souveraineté de l’État a longtemps été considérée comme un obstacle à toute harmonisation, la construction de l’espace pénal communautaire est perceptible sur les plans matériel et procédural. Sur le plan matériel, elle se manifeste par une communautarisation des règles pénales au moyen de l’institution d’infractions communautaires assorties de sanctions. Sur le plan procédural, la construction de l’espace pénal commun procède de la consécration, bien qu’imparfaite, du principe de la reconnaissance et de l’exécution mutuelles des décisions judiciaires en matière pénale, d’une part, et d’une procédure de coopération judiciaire qui emprunte progressivement la voie des organes communautaires, d’autre part.

Globalisation requires ever closer co-operation between legal professionals hailing from different national jurisdictions. This interactive global environment has fostered growing international training and mobility among legal practitioners and the internationalisation of legal education. Increasing numbers of law students get trained in other countries as part of their undergraduate degrees or even come to foreign shores to obtain law degrees. Many students hailing from other African countries study towardsLLBdegrees at South African universities. Major commercial law firms ensure that they can offer in-house expertise on major foreign legal systems and co-operate with partner firms in other parts of the globe. The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), to which South Africa is a party, is a multilateral agreement focusing on the liberalisation of trade in services amongst member countries. Services under the GATS system include legal services. The commitments made by South Africa under this agreement require that South Africa allows foreign legal practitioners to establish a commercial presence or be transferred to South Africa. The Bill of Rights entrenched in Chapter 2 of the South African Constitution guarantees fundamental rights including the right to equality and freedom of trade, occupation and profession. With the coming into force of the new Legal Practice Act 28 of 2014, which provides a legislative framework for regulating the affairs of legal practitioners, including their admission and enrolment, it is necessary to assess the extent to which the Act complies with the GATS rules and the South African Constitution. This paper examines the new Legal Practice Act 28 of 2014, and examines whether the Act addresses the conflicts that have always existed between the regulation of the legal profession and the admission of legal practitioners in South Africa with South Africa's commitments under the GATS system. Using the doctrinal legal method, it analyses and evaluates the rules governing the admission of foreign attorneys in South Africa from two perspectives. First, it considers them in the light of the international law obligations of the country and second it evaluates whether or not they comply with the South African Constitution, and more specifically with the Bill of Rights entrenched in the South African Constitution. While the new legislation may assist in ensuring the compliance of South Africa with the relevant GATS rules, it will depend on the regulations which still have to be promulgated to what extent the new legal framework will achieve the full compliance of South Africa with all relevant GATS rules. The paper concludes with recommendations for the reform of the Legal Practice Act. It argues that while the requirement to be a South African permanent resident in order to qualify for admission as an attorney may be justifiable in terms of GATS and in terms of South African constitutional law, it is not in South Africa's best interest to retain it. Consequently, the paper calls for the repeal of the permanent residence requirement for admission as an attorney in the county.  

The economic growth in Indonesia is thrive. The Economic growth can not be separate of the role of investment in Indonesia. The population in Indonesia very much and also the location of the Indonesian state strategic pretty much made Indonesia enjoyed by citizens of Indonesia itself and also foreign nationals who wish to also invest in Indonesia. In Indonesia there is a domestic investment and foreign investment. In this paper will be devoted to foreign investment. Foreign investment that currently exist in Indonesia has a sizeable amount and spread from Sabang to Merauke, and also has sometimes caused the dispute. Dispute occurs either the foreign investment by government or also foreign investment with other parties outside the government well with other foreign investment, and also in the company itself. Foreign investment dispute settlement is not only done through the court owned by the government, but there are also ways of alternative dispute resolution outside the court . One of the alternative dispute resolution outside the court is Arbitration. Arbitration carried out as part of efforts to achieve settlement of the problem in terms of investment activity . Arbitration itself is set in the legislation applicable investment in Indonesia . The parties in capital investment may create a separate section in the agreement governing the settlement of disputes in the case of investments completed by Arbitration. In the event that the parties have arranged to settle the case with Arbitration, then the court is not allowed to try again or to interfere in the decision Arbitration. Arbitration is one of the solutions if justice denial occur in the settlement of foreign direct investment issue.

Regional powers are not always benevolent leaders when it comes to the building of regional institutions. While powerful states – particularly the “new” rising powers – may have a vested interest in regionalism as a means of projecting influence, regional powers may behave as coercive or benevolent leaders, or alternatively display an absence of leadership altogether. The drivers of varying regional power behavior can be attributed to their competing concerns regarding (economic) power, functional efficiency, international legitimacy, and neopatrimonial networks. This paper explores the varying behavior of Nigeria and South Africa in relation to the institutionalization of free trade areas and regional courts within their respective regions. Nigeria has displayed little leadership in ECOWAS trade integration due to domestic opposition; however, a newly-democratic Nigeria’s search for international legitimacy drove the establishment of the ECOWAS Court of Justice. Likewise, South Africa’s search for legitimacy drove its support for the SADC Tribunal, but the competing demands of different audiences led it to abandon this support. South Africa has also displayed leadership in relation to the SADC Free Trade Area; however, its neighbors perceive it as a self-interested, almost coercive actor. The findings suggest that the motivations for regional powers’ behavior vary across time and policy sectors, and that inconsistent behavior is driven by a change in the priority granted to different drivers.

The paper examines the impact of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs)on economic growth in the five regions of Africa, as well as identifies their respective drivers of growth. It employs the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) multiple regression analysis to examine the relative impact of Foreign Direct Investments, balance of payments, trade openness, technology and quality of labour force on economic growth in each of the five regions between 1980 and 2012. The study finds that foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) have no significant impact on economic growth in the five regions of Africa. The impact of FDI on growth is positive in Eastern, Middle and Western Africa but negative in Northern and Southern Africa. Similarly, there are differentials in the drivers of growth in the five regions. While trade openness is a negative driver of growth in all regions of Africa except in Northern Africa, both balance of payments and quality of labour force have mixed impacts on economic growth in Africa. In addition, technological progress impacted growth in Middle, Southern Africa and Western Africa but it appears that lack of it retarded growth in Eastern and Northern Africa. The study calls for policy reform frameworks that encourage and boost foreign Direct Investment flows to all regions of Africa, particularly Direct Investments in critical sectors of the economies, as well as check the negative effects of foreign Direct Investments. Furthermore, it recommends that regional economic blocks in Africa should be resuscitated and supported to develop and promote intra-Africa trade and Investments.

En droit des affaires, le commerçant est soumis à plusieurs obligations au rang desquelles figure l’immatriculation au RCCM. Celle-ci constitue une mesure de publicité légale dont l’accomplissement vaut, sauf exception, reconnaissance de la qualité de commerçant à l’égard de la personne physique et déclaration de la société commerciale à l’état civil. En plus de ces résultats immédiats, l’immatriculation a pour but d’assurer la sécurité des transactions commerciales. C’est à juste titre que le droit a prévu et organisé le contentieux de l’inexécution de l’obligation d’immatriculation et celui relatif aux incidents de la procédure d’immatriculation. La question qui se pose est celle de savoir si l’intervention du juge contribue effectivement à vaincre non seulement la négligence ou l’inertie des assujettis, mais aussi les obstacles à l’attribution d’un numéro d’immatriculation. Si l’organisation des différents axes du contentieux de l’immatriculation du commerçant au RCCM paraît satisfaisante, les suites de l’intervention du juge demeurent quant à elles perfectibles à certains égards. Il est nécessaire d’envisager des pistes de solutions tant en ce qui concerne le traitement du contentieux de l’inexécution de l’obligation d’immatriculation que celui des incidents de la procédure d’immatriculation.

Me posant cette question depuis une cinquantaine d’années, j’ai successivement écarté l’explication d’un simple laisser aller dans la reconduite de l’héritage colonial puis l’hypothèse d’une prétendue supériorité, jamais vérifiée autrement que dogmatiquement, du « droit moderne » sur la « coutume ancestrale ». Plus sérieuse fut l’explication liée à l’économie politique, un héritage marxien, et exigeant que les superstructures politiques et juridiques soient en phase avec l’insertion de l’Afrique dans le marché mondial. Mais, depuis ma participation à l’étude internationale sur les transferts de connaissances juridiques Nord-Sud, à la fin des années 1970, j’ai mis en évidence la place et le rôle de l’idéologie professionnelle des juristes et en particulier de leur philosophie spontanée idéaliste dont je dévoilerai ce qu’il masque à la lumière de mes travaux récents et selon le nouveau paradigme de la juridicité et de son pluralisme « intégral ». This question is focused on my research in the years 1960. After dismissing the continuity of policies such as bureaucratic carelessness of colonial inheritance and the hypothesis of a superiority of modern law facing to ancestral customs, I have debated an another inheritance, the Marxist one, about the link between the generalization of capitalism and legal and political superstructures. But an international project on legal transfers at the end of the 1970s’ revealed the place and role of a professional ideology, of the Lawyers, associated with technical training in law schools and enforcing monologism in the legal discourse. To escape to the effects of this ideology, we have to overhaul the analysis on the basis of the new paradigm of « juridicity » and of a « complete » pluralism.

With the progressive transformation of the Internet from a romanticised instrument of freedom and self-expression into a commercial platform for digital distribution, most websites must be recognised as access interfaces to a wide range of content and services. This paper examines the contracts purportedly governing the use of such content and services. It explores the difficulties of establishing legal intention in a context that is not unambiguously commercial or transactional and contrasts popular beliefs with the basic principles of contract law. It draws a clear distinction between contracts governing traditional e-commerce exchanges, such as buying books on Amazon.com, and contracts governing the very use of websites. In the latter instance, the website (ie the resources made available thereon) constitutes the subject matter of the transaction. Equal importance must be attributed to the fact that such contracts are formed on websites and to the fact that they govern their use. The website user will question the existence of a contract on the basis that he did not have an intention to be legally bound, or had no awareness that a transaction was taking place. The website operator will argue that, objectively, all prerequisites of a legally enforceable agreement have been met. The outcome of the discussion will, to a large extent, depend on whether the user’s beliefs and expectations can be regarded as reasonable and on whether it is the user or the operator who deserves the protection of the objective theory of contract.

En Afrique, en plus des ports généraliers historiques et urbains, on voit émerger un nouveau réseau portuaire d'interfaces, sorte de plateformes de transbordement qui semble vouloir accompagner la révolution du conteneur. Ces ports sont loin des villes et ancrés à l’hinterland par un réseau de transport multimodal, avec leurs logiques de localisation et fonctionnement spécifiques. La mise en place de ce nouveau paysage portuaire a provoqué une véritable guerre des terminaux sur les côtes africaines. Chaque pays veut construire son Hub portuaire, d’où le bousculement des leaders mondiaux du transport maritime conteneurisé sur les côtes africaines. Certainement l’arrivée des opérateurs internationaux, améliorera aussi bien les infrastructures que les superstructures portuaires et leurs connexions et renforcera encore plus la productivité des ports, mais en même temps, pour certains, cela dépossède les africains de ces installations vitales et stratégiques; a déjà mis à mort successivement des compagnies maritimes africaines depuis le début du 21è siècle, et a totalement mis la main des opérateurs internationaux sur les ports africains par le système des concessions, idem pour les sociétés de manutention sur les trafics conteneurisés des grandes plateformes africaines. Au niveau des ports et du transport maritime international, différents pays et sociétés européennes dominent ce marché en Afrique, mais au il des ans, l’Europe est de plus en plus supplantée par la Chine et autres pays asiatiques comme partenaires des pays africains. La Chine, devenant très rapidement premier partenaire commercial de l’Afrique, s’élança dans des projets gigantesques de construction des ports, chemin de fer et autoroutes..., surtout en Afrique Orientale. Exemples, en Tanzanie le projet du port de Bagamoyo au Nord de Dar es-Salaam, susceptible de traiter 20 millions de conteneurs par an. Le projet Sud-Soudan-Ethiopie Transport Lamu Port(LAPSSET), inclus dans la Vision du Kenya 2030,Le projet du futur port en eau profonde d’El Hamdania à Cherchell dans la wilaya de Tipaza, en Algérie. Face à ces développements, Tout d’abord, les experts se demandent s’il y a un besoin bien réel dans ce domaine. Si oui, quels sont les ports qui pourraient jouer le rôle de Hub de transbordement continental et dans quel pays et qui gagnera les concessions?. Nous, on se demande même s’il n y a pas trop de projets? On se dit encore plus que les projets de Hubs en Afrique sont même plus nombreux pour un continent qui ne présente pas encore les caractéristiques d’un tel choix. Enfin, face aux développements des inventions technologiques rapides dans le domaine des constructions portuaires et portes conteneurs, et en vue des capacités financières et économiques réduites des pays africains, n’est-il pas légitime de se poser la question: Pourquoi cette course effrénée des pays africains à construire cette nouvelle génération des ports, très couteuse? et à se livrer une concurrence hasardeuse surement? Est-ce que le nouveau concept de port mobile qui vient d’apparaître avec une forte caution scientifique et technologie, mis au point par les chercheurs coréens du KAIST (Korean Advanced Institute for Science & Technology), ne remet pas en cause cette stratégie de construction des ports de transbordement en Afrique, en vue de ses nombreux avantages dont son coût réduit, sa protection de l’environnement avec notamment la réduction d’émanations de gaz, la sécurité et la réduction des délais de déploiement ?

La règle de conflit, qui a toujours été au coeur du droit international privé, a connu d’importantes transformations depuis quelques années. Considérée comme rigide, parce qu’elle est focalisée sur la localisation spatiale du rapport de droit, elle est devenue de plus en plus flexible et privilégie désormais la justice matérielle au détriment de la justice conflictuelle. Plus encore, elle a même été supplantée par la méthode de la reconnaissance. Cependant, le droit international privé camerounais est resté attaché à la méthode conflictuelle classique, alors qu’il serait nécessaire de prendre en considération toutes ces transformations qui ne sont pas sans incidences sur le développement du droit international privé.

Cet article analyse les déterminants de la disposition des managers à formaliser les PME informelles en Côte d’Ivoire. Les données utilisées portent sur 400 entreprises du secteur informel enquêtées dans le cadre du projet CAPEC/CRDI¹. À partir des statistiques descriptives et de l’estimation d’un modèle Probit, l’étude met en évidence d’une part les variables qui influencent négativement et d’autre part celles qui influencent positivement la disposition à formaliser les PME. Il ressort de ces enquêtes que les taxes, le fait que l’entreprise soit dirigée par une femme, les coûts d’enregistrement, l’affiliation à une organisation politique et l’ignorance des procédures ont un effet négatif sur la disposition des managers à formaliser leurs entreprises. Les résultats montrent que la possession d’un plan d’affaires à la création, l’expérience du manager, la localisation, le niveau d’instruction supérieur, la simplification des procédures d’enregistrement affectent positivement la propension à formaliser les PME informelles. De même, les problèmes d’accès au financement et aux marchés publics conduisent les managers à la formalisation de leurs entreprises. Au regard de ces déterminants, la réduction des coûts de la formalisation, un meilleur accès des PME qui se formalisent au financement et aux marchés publics, le renforcement des capacités des opérateurs de l’informel, l’instauration d’une fiscalité incitative et la vulgarisation des procédures de déclaration s’avèrent des leviers importants de la formalisation. This paper analyzes the determinants of the willingness of managers to formalize informal SMEs in Côte d'Ivoire. The data used relate to 400 informal sector enterprises surveyed under the CAPEC / IDRC project. On the basis of descriptive statistics and the estimation of a Probit model, the study highlights both variables that negatively influence and those that positively influence the willingness to formalize SMEs. These surveys show that taxes, the fact that the company is headed by a woman, registration costs, affiliation to a political organization and ignorance of procedures have a negative effect on the formalization of businesses. Moreover, the results show that ownership of a business plan at creation, managerial experience, location, higher education, simplification of registration procedures positively affect the propensity to formalize informal SMEs. Similarly, the problems of access to finance and public procurement lead to more formalization. In view of these determinants, the reduction in the costs of formalization, better access by SMEs to financing and public procurement, capacity building for informal operators, the introduction of tax incentives and the Dissemination procedures are important levers of formalization.

The call for democracy worldwide is based on the assumption that it allows citizens involvement on how they are governed. Being a representative system of government, democracy is projected to make political leadership responsive and responsible to the entire citizenry of the state. Southern Africa region has the most animated economy in sub –Sahara Africa, and democratic ideals appear more firmly established in the region compared to other regions in Africa. This has made the region, among others in the continent, the preferred choice of many migrants from different parts of the world. It is believed that the region has reached its Eldorado. However, a close observation of the politics of that region tends to suggest there has been the institutionalization of democratic rule without commensurate enthronement of responsible and accountable governance. This study systematically examined the political configurations of the region to concretely determine how the practice of liberal democracy in the sub-region has translated to accountable and responsible governance and its overall impact of the living standard of the citizens of the countries of that region. The paper examined accountable governance in the sense that leaders will be able to mange resource of the state for the well being of the populace. The reverse has been the case for the region. Southern Africa needs a developmental and capable state for socio-economic progress and sustainable democracy. This cannot be achieved without responsible political leadership, which would be responsive to the yearnings of the people. The mode of analysis was based on secondary sources and observation method. The paper adopted secondary and observation techniques as the mode of analysis

This article examines the existing literature on trade liberalisation and its effect on the economies of developing countries. It will also briefly examine the theory of comparative advantage which is seen as justification for global trade liberalisation under the auspices of the World Trade Organization. This process is also associated with greater openness, economic interdependence and deepening economic integration with the world economy. The study is important because once again the international institutions strongly advocate trade and financial liberalisation in developing countries. The proponents of trade liberalisation argue that multilateral trade negotiations would achieve these goals, and poor countries particularly would benefit from it. However, such policies may increase vulnerability and make developing countries further hostages of international finance capital. Adoption of open market policies in agriculture would also mean the abandoning of self-reliance and food sovereignty, which may have wider consequences in terms of food shortages, food prices and rural employment.

L'adaptation du droit au numérique apparaît comme une nécessité résultant de l‟essor considérable du numérique. Le numérique offre beaucoup d‟opportunités, mais engendre beaucoup de contraintes d‟ordre juridique. Une assez appréciable adaptation du droit au numérique est opérée par le législateur malien et les législateurs de certaines communautés sous régionales telles que l‟UEMOA, la CEDEAO et l‟OHADA. Cette adaptation est justifiée par la nécessité de donner aux acteurs les moyens de tirer profit du numérique avec une sécurisation juridique du cyberspace. Toutefois, elle doit être poursuivie afin de suivre l‟évolution rapide du numérique. The adaptation of the Law to digital is an necissity resulting at the big progress of the digital. The digital gives many opportunities, but creates so much diffuculties relating to law. Quite appréciable adaptation of malian law to the digital is done by national lawyer and lawyers of some communauties regarding Mali, such as WAMU, ECOWAS and OHADA. This adaptation is justified by the necessity to give the aims to use cyberspace and juridical security to the differents actors relating this space. But it must be continued in order to follow the evolution of the digital.

Arbitration provides speedy mode of settlement of disputes between the parties. In the course of arbitration, the arbitration tribunal has an obligation to give a fair opportunity to the parties to present their case. The fair hearing or due process of law in arbitration requires that both parties must be treated equally and given opportunity to be heard, which include a party may request the other party for production of documents, which are relevant to the case. Hence, the international arbitration rules contained the provisions to order a party, on its own or on the request of a party, to produce the documents relevant to the outcome of the case. Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, any denial of this opportunity may be considered as a violation of due process of law, consequently a party may challenge the enforcement of the award.