FORUM OF CARICOM DIRECTORS OF GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES

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ANNEX V
CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• FORUM OF CARICOM DIRECTORS OF GOVERNMENT
  INFORMATION SERVICES
• FREE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS
• The Vision and the Reality
• CARICOM Community Secretariat
• Kingston Jamaica
• 16-17 March 2005

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE CSME
• Legal Frameworks
• Financial Resources
• Human Resources
• Social Assets
• Sense of identity
• Shared identity

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• CONTEXT OF FREE MOVEMENT
• 400 years of economic articulation
• Community of Sovereign States
• Regional Market minimum economic activity
• Lack of compliance

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• LANDMARKS
• 1968 CARIFTA
• Treaty Establishing the Caribbean Community and
  Common Market (signed at Chaguaramas, Trinidad
  and Tobago, 4 July
• 1989 Grande Anse Declaration
• 1990-2002 Signing of Protocols leading to the
  Revised Treaty establishing the Caribbean
  Community (including the CARICOM Single Market
  and Economy)
• 2003 Rose Hall Declaration
• 2005 Year of the CARICOM Single Market

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• More Structured vs. ad hoc Framework
• Rule and Role of Law (CCJ)
• CSME more structured approach to service and
  entrepreneurship
• Provision of Services
• CSME competitiveness restructuring approaches
  and increasing opportunities
• Right of Establishment

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• Provision of services
• Provision of services is a right (Art. 30)
• All services will be open to competition except
  (a) those involving the exercise of
  governmental authority (Art. 30)
• (b) those where there is a monopoly (Art. 31)
• Non-discrimination applies to all laws, rules,
  administrative measures and service industries

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• Provision of Services The Reality
• Removal of Restrictions for -
• Companies
• Non-Wage Earners (self-employed persons involved
  in industrial, agricultural, professional,
  commercial and artisan activities)
• Managerial, technical and supervisory persons
• Spouses and dependant persons

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• Right of Establishment
• Obligations
• Permit establishment in all areas
• Do not introduce new restrictions
• Remove existing restrictions

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• Right of Establishment
• Who has this right?
• According to Article 32-
• natural persons citizens, nationals, residents
• natural persons self-employed persons, persons
  engaged in non-wage earning activities of an
  agricultural, industrial, commercial, artisanal
  and professional nature
• companies and other legal entities, agencies,
  branches and subsidiaries

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• FREE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS
• TWO REGIMES-
• Facilitation of Travel (Art. 46)
• Movement of Skills (Arts. 32, 34(d), 36 and 37)

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• Regime One Facilitation of Travel (Art. 46)
• Common travel documents
• Common landing documents
• National treatment at ports of entry

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• Regime TwoMovement of Skills
• - Companies and Non-Wage Earners (self- employed
  persons)
• Wage Earners (University Graduates Musicians
  Artistes Sports Persons Media workers
  Managerial, Technical and Supervisory Staff of
  establishing entities
• Other special categories (under discussion)

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• LIBERALISATION The reality
• Removal of work permit
• - Skilled Nationals Act for wage earners and the
  self-employed
• Self-employed
• Other skills levels
• Removal of existing restrictions for persons
  establishing a business or providing a service

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• Status Movement of Persons
• Right of establishment
• Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago
  completed the removal of
• restrictions
• - All other Member States to complete the
  process by 31 December 2005

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• Status Movement of Persons
• Free Movement of Persons
• Common Lines implemented in all Member States
• Suriname started with the issuance of a CARICOM
• passport
• All other Member States to introduce the CARICOM
  passport
• Free Movement of wage earners implemented in all
  Member States, except Antigua and Barbuda,
  Montserrat and St. Kitts and Nevis

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• Status Movement of Persons
• Provision of Services
• Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago
  completed the removal of
• restrictions
• - All other Member States to complete the
  process by 31 December 2005

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• THE IMPACT OF FREE MOVEMENT
• Quality of goods and services
• New/non-traditional businesses
• Coalition of service providers
• Itinerant Community workers
• New Migration outlook

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• INTERSECTION OF VISION/REALITY
• Regional transportation
• IT/ICT for Development
• Education and Training
• Cultural Industries
• Beyond consolidation of cultural bonds

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• CATALYSTS TO ACTION
• Accreditation/ Standardisation
• CCJ
• New Executive Mechanism
• Restructured CARICOM Secretariat
• World Cup Cricket
• CARICOM/PANCAP

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• IMPERATIVES FOR THE CSME REALITY
• GLOBAISATION
• THE FTAA
• SELF-RESPECT

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CARICOM SINGLE MARKET ECONOMY

• Some Action Points
• Information and Communication Network
• The role of GIS
• - Marketing and Public Education
• The role of the Media