Table: Integration Indicators
PRIORITY AREA 1: REMOVING BARRIERS TO FACTOR MOBILITY
Intervention Area
National Inter-Ministerial
Coordinating Committees
set up
Outcome
Indicator
Framework for drafting, monitoring and
reporting on implementation of commitments
RISM national focal points nominated
National monitoring committees constituted and meeting regularly
Eritrea, Ethiopia, RD Congo and Uganda join
FTA by 2012
Eritrea, Ethiopia, RD Congo and Uganda join FTA
NTBs online monitoring system functioning and NTBs reported by
the private sector
Consolidate the internal
market (Free Trade Area)
Steps and Measures to eliminate barriers to
trade (Standards, SPS and NTBs) agreed on by
2012
Institutional structures such as national focal points and national
monitoring committees on NTBs established by all Member States
by 2012
Member States gazette the NTB Regulations
Regional SPS (Sanitary/Phyto-sanitary) measures adopted and
implemented
Number of Standards being implemented by MS
Countries implementing mutual recognition certificates for
Standards and SPS
All countries domesticate the Common Tariff
Nomenclature (CTN) by 2012
14 countries implementing 80% of the Common
External Tariff (CET) by 2015
Operationalise the
Customs Union
Regional sensitive products list agreed by 2012
14 countries domesticate the Customs
Management Regulations (CMR) by 2012
Member states implementing the CMR
Guidelines
Implementation of the Customs Union Road
Map for the transition period
30
CTN domesticated
% of the CET implemented by MS
Sensitive products list submitted by MS
Customs Management Regulations domesticated
Member states implementing the CMR Guidelines
Member States submit and implement Schedule I, II and III of Tariff
Alignment schedule