The ECOWAS Regional Competition Authority ERCA has said that harmonised competition policies among Member States is critical to achieving a common market place and the African Continental Free Trade Area.
The Acting Executive Director of Regional Competition Authority ERCA, Simeon Koffi, made this known in Abuja at the opening of the FCCPC-ERCA Joint Advocacy and Sensitisation Workshop on ECOWAS Regional Competition Policy.
According to Koffi, the advocacy and awareness workshop aims enlightening stakeholders and ECOWAS citizens on ERCA’s mandates, its implications for businesses and trade in the ECOWAS region and also competition law in Nigeria.
He said that the workshop also aimed at ensuring participants become more familiar with the provisions of the regional competition Policy.
This, he said, would enable the stakeholders who will be expert on the field make recommendations to the ERCA on the one hand and to the Member States on the other.
