Bibliographie sélective OHADA

The vast number of commercial transactions that take place daily in the modern business world will be inconceivable without negotiable instruments like cheques. This is the reason why the recovery of debts inherent in cheques without cover has been given the attention it deserves within the CEMAC Region under the OHADA Uniform Act on Business Law. The OHADA Uniform Act on Simplified Recovery Procedure and Enforcement Measures has instituted a procedure in the member states of the OHADA zone to recover debts of a company when it eventually goes bankrupt or when it winds up. It should however be understood that all the member states of CEMAC are OHADA signatories. This ipso facto means that Cameroon being a member of CEMAC, with its bi jural nature, where the Common Law and Civil law legal systems operates in the Former West Cameroon and Former East Cameroon respectively, both parts of the country are bound to implement the OHADA Uniform Act in their various jurisdictions. The Uniform Act on Simplified Recovery Procedures and Enforcement Measures was issued on the 10th of April 1998. Like the Uniform Act on Securities, this Act overlaps the bound of pure business law in that it effects a general reform of civil procedure in relation to recovery and enforcement. The reform was indispensable of the OHADA Member States, only Mali had, in 1994, put in place a modern system that was suited to present day economic and social conditions. Otherwise, the relevant legislation dated, at best from the 1970s and in several cases from colonial times. The OHADA Uniform Act governs commercial companies and Economic Interest groups. Since banks are commercial companies governed under Public Limited Companies S. As , they are equally governed by the OHADA Uniform Act. Thus, this paper questions the potentials of the OHADA Simplified Recovery Procedure and Enforcement Measures in relation to the special mechanisms for the Recovery of Debts inherent in cheques without cover in Cameroon.

Personal property security law is a key element of “access to credit” and “financial inclusion”. The prevailing view is that a legal framework enabling the effective use of personal property as collateral markedly benefits both lenders and borrowers. Lenders can offer financing at a lower cost thanks to reduced credit risk; borrowers can access funding by leveraging the otherwise unavailable value of the assets integral to their operations. Over the past century, the priorities of personal property security law have evolved fundamentally. As small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and individual entrepreneurs have become the growth engine of both developed and developing economies, legislators have grown sensitive to the financing needs of these entities. In parallel, the advent of the information society has demanded that lawmakers address squarely the rules governing the use as collateral of intangibles such as “receivables”, “intermediated securities”, “non-intermediated securities”, and “intellectual property rights”, rather than confine their gaze to tangibles such as industrial machinery, mobile equipment and inventory. Concurrently, the increasingly transnational nature of both economic development policies and commercial activity have engendered the need for global principles and standards for asset-based lending. To address these novel priorities and promote a healthy and vibrant credit ecosystem, international and regional organizations have undertaken projects aimed at modernizing and harmonizing personal property security law. Over time, these efforts have yielded a panoply of legal instruments. Binding conventions have been adopted to unify the rules of discrete facets of personal property security law, while soft-law texts, such as model laws and legislative guides, have been formulated to supply comprehensive legal templates to lawmakers keen to revise their domestic legal regimes. Nevertheless, states have struggled to assimilate these international efforts into their domestic legal systems. Common law jurisdictions have been loath to abandon the familiarity and safety of the path paved by centuries of case law; in similar vein, civil law jurisdictions have resisted inducements to renovate the normative infrastructure erected by the codifications of the 19th century. This Chapter explores the tension between international ambitions and local realities, with a special focus on the issues encountered in civil law jurisdictions. To this end, the case of Italy is examined as a living experiment in comparative personal property security law. In this jurisdiction, the recent enactment of a non-possessory security device, absent a comprehensive reform of the country’s civil code affords important lessons for any civil law system which might be pondering personal property security law reforms. More profoundly, it epitomizes the gap that separates the aspirations of international legal instruments from their effective implementation in domestic contexts. This analysis is divided into two parts. The first reviews international and regional legal initiatives that have shaped the personal property law landscape and then identifies a set of core tenets shared among them. In the second part, attention shifts to Italy, scrutinizing both the personal property security legal edifice originally constructed in this jurisdiction and the attempts to overhaul it that have taken place over the past three decades. This is followed by a critical appraisal of the current state of the law, by reference to the aforementioned core tenets of personal property law reform.

This research questions the capacity of the OHADA accounting system to report on the societal commitment of companies. To carry out such a study, we are interested in the companies of the Douala Stock Exchange, which permanently publish green operations. The analysis was done at two levels: the first level of analysis highlighted the categories of green operations reported by the companies of our sample. The second level of analysis consisted in analysing the financial statements produced by these companies, in order to see in which accounts green transactions are recorded. The analysis reveals that, apart from some additional clarifications to be made in the appendices, the financial statements produced according to OHADA do not specifically highlight green information.

Face à la mondialisation des économies et la globalisation des marchés, le désire d’avoir un langage commun s’est de plus en plus fait ressenti. Pour assoupir ce besoin plusieurs pays  ont jugé opportun d’adopter les normes IFRS pour des informations de qualité et comparable à travers le monde. C’est dans cet  élan que  l’espace OHADA  décide en 2017 d’harmoniser ses normes à celles d’IFRS. L’objectif de cet article est d’analyser la perception des acteurs sur l’harmonisation des normes OHADA et IFRS. Cette étude qualitative s’appuie sur une population de 16 individus composés d’académiciens et de praticiens de la comptabilité. Les résultats de l’étude révèlent que l’harmonisation du SYSCOHADA aux IFRS était souhaitable mais que certains points de convergences restent questionnable. De plus on ne saurait parler dans le processus d’harmonisation des normes OHADA et des normes IFRS, d’une adoption pure et simple des normes IFRS, mais plutôt d’une adaptation des normes OHADA aux normes IFRS en tenant compte des caractéristiques des pays de l’espace OHADA.

Les certifications, y compris Fairtrade, misent sur les petites coopératives et sur des partenariats « engagés » pour promouvoir des moyens d’existence durables. Dans la filière du cacao en Côte d’Ivoire, marquée par l’appauvrissement des planteurs, ces derniers se méfient des coopératives. Les bénéfices attendus des certifications, dont le label Fairtrade, paraissent faibles. L’objectif de cet article est d’entrer dans la « boîte noire » de 80 coopératives : composition des équipes dirigeantes, gestion de la prime et du prix minimum garanti. Il montre que la majorité des coopératives constituent une simple « conversion » du statut d’entreprises privées préexistantes, sans réel collectif ni adhésion aux valeurs coopératives. Les conditions ne sont pas réunies pour une gestion collective et démocratique des bénéfices issus des labels dits « de développement durable » dont la crédibilité est ébranlée.

Strategic objectives in public procurement, such as environmental or social considerations, are being increasingly referred to under the umbrella term of sustainable public procurement (SPP). The concept of sustainability is intrinsically multidimensional, encompassing environmental, social, and economic aspects. However, the existing literature on SPP highlights the generalization that the regulation and practices of public procurement are biased toward the environmental dimension. There is conflicting evidence from countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) that calls for further investigation. Analyzing how SPP is actually constituted in SSA and contrasting it with the situation in the European Union (EU), as a spotlight on the Global South and North, contributes to a better understanding of sustainability in public procurement. The comparative analysis will help with understanding processes related to the integration or disintegration of sustainability dimensions in SPP. Our results indicate a contrary orientation on the environmental and the social dimensions in the EU and SSA. Although there is no sign of a comprehensive integration of all dimensions in SPP, there are developments toward the integration of the ‘missing’ dimension in the respective regional setting. Thus, at the moment, achieving a multidimensional implementation of SPP appears to be more a matter of expanding SPP practices of the ‘missing’ dimension than of pushing for integrated concepts.

Accounting standardization in black African French-speaking countries is presented through two streams of research. The first stream presents the general chart of accounts common to all these countries as an accounting model which reconciles the divergences between the Anglo-Saxon and continental approaches to accounting, and thereby satisfies the requirements of users of accounting information. The second stream considers that the convergence towards IAS/IFRS is a vital way of attracting international investors and increasing development. This article stands by the second perspective and analyzes the changes introduced in the PCG-OHADA (2017) compared to the PCG-OHADA (2000). It shows that the new provisions of the PCG-OHADA are mainly inspired by IAS 1, IAS 16, IAS 19, IAS 36, IAS 38, IAS 40, and IFRS 6.

In the case Micula A.O. v. Romania, the arbitration tribunal established under the auspices of the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) sentenced Romania to pay a compensation for the revocation of investment incentives and for the breach of fair and equitable treatment principle that had been laid down in a bilateral investment treaty between Sweden and Romania. Considering investment incentives as a breach of the EU regulations regarding state aids, the European Commission then rendered a directive, prohibiting the enforcement of the arbitration award by the member states. As articles 53 and 54 of ICSID emphasize that the awards are binding, the EU Commission’s act of rendering the aforementioned directive, and the member states refusal to comply with the award equals to giving the EU law primacy over international law, which should be considered as a breach of their international obligations. Using a descriptive-analytical method, this article seeks to explain the viewpoints of the parties and the courts which were asked to enforce the award, as well as to determine the nature of their acts.

The assessment of the investor’s nationality is of utmost relevance to determine the arbitral tribunal’s jurisdiction in Investor-State Arbitration. In treaty-based arbitration the investor must give evidence that is protected by the BIT, which means that he must have the nationality of the State party to the BIT that is not the host State. The case law considers irrelevant the fact that the investor possesses another nationality besides the nationality of the State party to the BIT and considers also irrelevant the fact that the invoked nationality is not the dominant one. Things get more serious if the investor has also the nationality of the host State (double nationality). In this scenario the investor cannot launch an ICSID arbitration against the host State because the Washington Convention forbids it. The possibility of an ad hoc arbitration is subject to the interpretation of the applicable BIT which has led to an unstable case law both because the BITs are not all equal and because different tribunals have analyzed the dominant nationality doctrine in different ways. A determinação da nacionalidade do investidor é um dos elementos mais importantes para a verificação da jurisdição dos tribunais arbitrais nas arbitragens de proteção de investimentos. Nas arbitragens baseadas em BIT (bilateral investment treaties) o investidor que inicia a arbitragem tem de demonstrar que está protegido pelo BIT que pretende invocar, pelo que terá de possuir a nacionalidade do Estado parte nesse mesmo BIT, que não seja o Estado onde o investimento foi realizado. A jurisprudência tem considerado irrelevante o facto de o investidor poder ter outras nacionalidades, para além da nacionalidade do Estado parte no BIT, desvalorizando igualmente o facto de essa nacionalidade não ser a nacionalidade dominante do investidor. Tudo se complica no caso de o investidor possuir igualmente a nacionalidade do Estado onde o investimento foi realizado. Nesse caso o investidor não poderá iniciar uma arbitragem com base no ICSID tendo em conta que a Convenção de Washington veda essa possibilidade. Já no caso de arbitragens ad hoc tudo dependerá da interpretação do BIT em concreto, o que tem levado a uma flutuação jurisprudencial, seja porque os BIT são diferentes, seja porque tem havido diferentes abordagens jurisprudenciais quanto à relevância da nacionalidade dominante.

En l’espace d’une dizaine d’années, de nombreux pays ont adopté un cadre juridique régissant l’économie sociale et solidaire (ESS). L’intérêt pour le secteur est également grandissant dans les organisations internationales, y compris les Nations unies. En comparant les législations relatives à l’ESS à travers le monde, les auteurs montrent que les intitulés choisis pour qualifier le secteur, la définition des principes essentiels, le périmètre des formes statutaires incluses, ainsi que les modes d’institutionnalisation sont variables en fonction des contextes économiques, sociaux, culturels et politiques des pays concernés. Néanmoins, les points de convergence sont nombreux et une culture juridique mondiale commune de l’ESS et de son entreprise semble s’esquisser. En el espacio de una década, muchos países han adoptado un marco jurídico que regule la economía social y solidaria (ESS). El interés en el sector es también creciente en las organizaciones internacionales, incluidas las Naciones Unidas. Comparando las legislaciones relativas a la ESS en todo el mundo, los autores muestran que los términos seleccionados para calificar el sector, la definición de los principios fundamentales, el perímetro de las formas legales incluidas, así como los modos de institucionalización cambian en función de los contextos económicos, sociales, culturales y políticos de los países concernientes. Sin embargo, son muchos los puntos de convergencia y parece que se esta dibujando una cultura jurídica mundial común a la ESS y a su modelo de empresa.

La gouvernance d’entreprise est une matière vivante, riche, foisonnante qui a connu au cours des dernières années des développements de grande ampleur, tant dans la littérature académique que dans les guides pratiques. L’audit interne constitue un mécanisme de grande importance dans le processus de gouvernance de l’entreprise. De ce fait, considérant le poids et l’importance du rôle de cette fonction sur l’efficacité du système de gouvernance de l’entreprise, nous nous sommes intéressés, dans le cadre de notre étude, aux enjeux et à l’importance de l’audit interne en tant qu’instrument au service de la gouvernance d’entreprise et à l’analyse de sa contribution dans la performance du présent processus. The Corporate governance is a living, rich and abundant subject, which has experienced in recent years major developments, both in academic literature and practical guides. Internal audit is an important mechanism in the process of corporate governance. Therefore, considering the weight and the importance of this function on the efficiency of corporate governance, we will consider, in our study, the issues and the importance of internal audit as a tool serving the corporate governance and analyze its contribution in the performance of this process.

L’une des raisons de l’adoption d’un nouveau code pénal au Cameroun en 2016, était la prise en compte des évolutions sociétales. A ce sujet, si la Loi n° 2016/007 portant code pénal peut être jugée satisfaisante, la question de l’incrimination des atteintes portées à plusieurs personnes ou à leurs biens à la suite d’un acte ou fait unique, susceptible de recevoir la qualification d’infraction, demeure actuelle. Même si le code pénal ne tient pas compte du résultat collectif d’une infraction dans sa qualification ou sanction, l’idée d’une exigence de sa prise en compte va fleurir tant que les accidents collectifs et les risques sériels seront présents dans la société, mais surtout que les politiques publiques interviendront. Il serait donc temps d’y penser fortement… Car, il est indispensable et important que, le fait indexé comme un trouble à l’ordre social, soit incriminé à sa juste valeur One factor in adoption the Cameroonian penal law was social evolution. In fact, Law No. °2016/007 which introduced the Penal Code brings many innovations. However, we note that the Code contains some limitations, inter alia mass torts. The criminalization under the new penal code remained the same by adopting traditional criteria like the quality of victim. The numbers of victims do not influence the qualification of facts or the application of the punishment. Even if the penal code does not take into account the collective result of an offence in its qualification or sanction, the idea of a requirement to take it into account will flourish as long as collective accidents and serial risks are present in society, but above all as public policies intervene. It is therefore time to think about it strongly... Because it is essential and important that the fact indexed as a disorder to the social order, be incriminated at its true value.

L’intégration économique, en tant que processus de développement, vise à fusionner les économies de deux ou plusieurs Etats pour lutter contre la pauvreté et stimuler dans la zone concernée la croissance économique. Pour que cet objectif de croissance soit atteint, le processus d’intégration économique doit reposer sur des bases juridiques solides issues de l’uniformisation ou de l’harmonisation normatives. Ces deux techniques juridiques constituent le point d’ancrage et la clé de succès de tout processus d’intégration économique. C’est conscients de cette situation que les Pères fondateurs de la CEMAC et de l’UEMOA, dans le souci d’instaurer dans leur Communauté ou Union un développement équilibré et durable, ont fait de l’uniformisation et de l’harmonisation, deux techniques juridiques de consolidation de l’intégration économique.

L’analyse des enjeux de la responsabilité sociétale des entreprises (RSE) des firmes TIC en Afrique se fait en tenant compte du degré de structuration de chaque Etat (démocratique ou non) qui en influence la forme et détermine le type de RSE. Partant du postulat selon lequel la RSE peut être le palliatif d’un Etat défaillant, l’objectif de cette étude est d’analyser l’impact sur les populations pauvres et vulnérables des politiques sociétales des firmes. L’enjeu scientifique de cette analyse, à partir d’études de cas africains, et du Congo en particulier, est aussi de réfléchir sur l’ambivalence de l’impact des politiques sociales des firmes TIC en Afrique, afin de montrer l’opportunité qu’offre le développement exponentiel des nouvelles technologies de la téléphonie dans la mise en oeuvre des politiques sociales dans ces pays. Aussi, en filigrane, ce travail questionne la prise en compte, dans les politiques relatives à la RSE de ces firmes, des conséquences du processus de production des consommables et accessoires TIC sur les populations, en l’occurrence les jeunes enfants travaillant dans les mines. Analysis of the issues of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of the ICTs in Africa companies is done taking into account the degree of structuring of each State (Democratic or not) which influence the form and determines the type of CSR. Starting from the premise that CSR can be the palliative of a failed State, the objective of this study is to analyze the impact on poor and vulnerable people of firm’s societal policies. The scientific issue of this analysis, based on studies of African cases, and the Congo in particular, is also to reflect on the ambivalence of the impact of social policies of the ICTs firms in Africa, in order to show the opportunity that offers exponential development of NICTs in implementation of social policies in these countries. Also, implicitly, this work questions taking into account, in policies on CSR of these firms, of the consequences of the process of production of consumables and accessories ICT on populations, in this case young children working in the mines.

An essential requirement of justice is that it should be dispensed as quickly as possible. It is a well-known adage that, « justice delayed is justice denied». Delay in litigation is caused by a number of factors. For example in litigation the parties have the right to make a counterclaim, right to make appeal etc. Arbitration has been able to overcome the factors which cause delay in litigation because in arbitration, parties are given the right to exclude the possibility to make a counterclaim, the right to make appeal has expressly been prohibited by the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Laws in Africa (OHADA)1 legislator etc. But since the OHADA legislator has not expressly prohibited counter claim in arbitration, it is recommended that counterclaim should be expressly prohibited in arbitration as it is the case with appeal. This article aims at identifying the causes of delay in the disposal of commercial disputes via litigation and how these causes of delay have been combated in arbitration.

Le présent article pose les perspectives sur les influences opportunes et mutuelles des systèmes arbitraux de la CCJA et l’EACJ dans la promotion de l’indépendance des arbitres. İl montre que, tout comme pour l’EAC, l’abitrage figure déjà dans le Traité de l’OHADA comme le mode de règlement des différends en vue d’améliorer le climat des investissements sur les territoires des Etats parties. La CCJA n’est pas un tribunal arb itral. Son intervention est placée en aval, comme juge de contrôle de la sentence bien qu’elle ne se contente pas d’un contrôle minimal. L’EACJ, qui a retenu l’option du cumul des fonctions de ses juges avec celles d’arbtres, pourra aussi, dans la moindre mesure, se contenter d’administrer les arbitrages ouverts conformément à son Règlement d’arbitrage. De ce point de vue, le système EACJ sera en parfait accord avec l’esprit du principe d’indépendance/ impartialité. En cette matière, nous pensons que la pratique de la CCJA ne manquera pas d’inspirer utilement des réformes du système d’arbitrage de l’EACJ, et qui révèle de plus en plus une prise de conscience certaine d'une croissante indépendance de ses arbitres en ayant opté pour la gratuité de l’arbitrage. Comme le Centre d’arbitrage de la CCJA est attaché à la Cour et que cette dernière est dotée d’une autonomie financière, il est temps de prendre des mesures de réduction de coût, non pas totalement analogues à celles de l’EACJ, à travers lesquelles on dispensera, par exemple les ressortissants de l’espace OHADA et les investisseurs étrangers, des frais administratifs de l’arbitrage. Il en résulterait un arbitrage sans influences, alternative crédible à la justice étatique qui affiche la lanterne rouge et facile d’accès aux justiciables impécunieux, qui rendra des sentences impartiales et légitimes.

The broad objective of the study is to assess the problems of the traditional tax system in Nigeria and establish electronic taxation as a solution to these problems. The study adopted content analysis in analyzing text books, journals, newspapers and other essential materials that were used to obtain the needed information for the study. Extensive review of the literature showed that electronic tax system solves the problem of low tax collection, unavailability of tax statistics and poor record keeping, complex of payment and high cost of tax compliance. The implication of these findings is that an adoption of electronic tax system is an intelligent means of achieving a system of tax administration that allows for the collection and accountability of required taxes at a minimum cost. The study concluded that there are some challenges with the manual system of administering taxes and that modern technology could simplify these challenges and alienate them in the form e-tax. The study therefore recommended that government should support with everything on their disposal the establishment of e-tax administration so as to start ripping the benefit of high rate of compliance among taxpayers at all levels of government in Nigeria.  

بعد بدايات بروز الحماية القانونية للحق الفكري في القرون الوسطى كان لابد من ايجاد الوسائل والتنظيمات القانونية لجمع هذه الاعمال الفكرية بمعية جهاز متخصص لحفظها ووقايتها لما تكوَنه من التراث الثقافي الوطني، فقد ظهرت عدة أنظمة لإيداع الأعمال الفكرية على اختلاف اعتباراتها، فمنها من نظر إليها كوسيلة للحماية والمحافظة وحصر العمل الفكري، ومنها من اعتبرها كشرط للحصول على الأرباح التجارية أو بصورة أخرى كإجراء ضروري من أجل عرضها على الجمهور، وتماشيا مع ذلك بدأت القوانين الدولية والوطنية في تنظيم هذه المسائل التي تؤطر إجراءات الإيداع وحماية الأعمال الفكرية. سار النظام التشريعي في الجزائري على غرار باقي التشريعات لتنظيم عملية الايداع القانوني للأعمال الفكرية حيث يرجع بدايات العمل بنظام الإيداع في الجزائر للقوانين الموجودة في فرنسا وتطبيقها في الجزائر فنظمت عملية الايداع بموجب أوامر الجنرال كافينياك في 13 مارس 1848و استمر العمل بنظام الإيداع القانوني على جملة من القوانين الفرنسية إلى غاية سنة 1996 أين تم إقرار قانون الإيداع الوطني الجزائري بموجب الأمر رقم 96-16 مؤرخ في 02 يوليو 1996 لوضع حد للتجاوزات والانتهاكات للموروث الفكري الوطني. After the beginnings of the Legal protection of intellectual right in the Middle Ages, that make it necessary to find the means and legal regulations to collect these intellectual works, With a specialized apparatus To save and protect them, As it forms a national cultural heritage. There have been several systems for filing intellectual works of different considerations, some of them viewed it as a means of protection, preservation and confinement of intellectual work, and some consider it a condition for commercial profit or otherwise necessary for public viewing, In line with this, the international and national laws have begun to regulate these issues, which frame deposit procedures and the protection of intellectual work. The legislative system in Algeria and the others legislations regulate the legal deposit of intellectual works, so the introduction of the deposit system in Algeria is due to the laws in France and their application in Algeria, the deposit was organized by General Caviniac's orders on March 13, 1848, that the legal deposit system continued on a number of French laws until 1996, the Algerian National Deposit Act was adopted by Order No. 96-16 dated 02 July 1996, to end abuses and violations of the national intellectual heritage.