should identify regional science and technology parks, and regional clusters. CROSS CUTTING ISSUES Aid for Trade Statistical Matters Decision 94. Council made the following decision: Decisions (a) That the COMESA Aid for Trade Strategy should be revised through a consultative process and should cover a four year period (2012-2015) aligned to the Mid Term Strategic Plan (MTSP). 93. Council made the following decisions: (a) The Secretariat and Member States should develop a programme on trade in services statistics based on the recommendations of the joint COMESACommonwealth Secretariat workshop; Institutional Development Decision 95. Council made the following decision: (b) The Secretariat and Member States should develop country specific roadmaps on the development of trade in services statistics; (c) Member States’ statistical infrastructure statistics units coordination, compilation infrastructure statistics in system; (a) That a COMESA Conference of Ministers of Industry should be organised, taking into account the on-going work of the African Union Conference of Ministers of Industry. offices should set up in order to entrench the and dissemination of the national statistical The COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Arrangement Decisions 96. Council made the following decisions: (d) Member States should improve the scope and quality of macro-economic data; and (a) Member States should immediately submit current, national tariffs and all trade measures to the Secretariat and regularly update the Secretariat on any subsequent changes implemented at national, regional or multilateral levels for circulation to other REC countries as part of the Tripartite transparency mechanism envisaged under the preparatory phase; (e) The national accounts interventions be realigned to focus on targeted studies on issues, which posed implementation challenges in the SNA 1993. (b) Member States should validate the information and data circulated by the Tripartite Task Force; 27