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3) Where the person is subject to business registration formalities or registration
in the national directory of businesses and associations, the registration
number, the share capital and corporate headquarters;
4) Whether the person is subject to value added tax;
5) Where his/her activity is subject to a licensing regime, the name and address
of the issuing authority;
6) Where the person is member of a regulated profession, the applicable
professional rules, his/her professional title, the African Union member
country in which he/she was granted such authorization, as well as the name
of the order or professional body with which he/she is registered.
Article I – 5:
Any person exercising the activities defined in Article I – 2 of this Convention, even in
the absence of offer of contract and provided he/she has posted a price for the said
activities, shall clearly and unambiguously indicate such a price, especially where it is
inclusive of taxes and delivery charges.
Chapter II: Contractual responsibility of the electronic provider of goods and
services
Article I – 6:
Any physical individual or corporate body exercising the activity defined in the first
paragraph of Article I – 2 of this Convention shall, ipso facto, be accountable to his/her
contracting partner for the proper execution of the obligations resulting from the
contract, regardless of whether or not such obligations are to be executed by
him/herself or by other service provider, without prejudice to his/her right of recourse
against the latter.
However, he/she may discharge him/herself from the whole or part of his/her
responsibility by providing proof that the non-execution or poor execution of the contract
is attributable either to the contracting partner or to force majeure.
Article I – 7:
The activity defined in Article I – 2 of this Convention shall be subject to the laws of the
African Union Member State on the territory of which the person exercising such activity
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