The Committee on Trade, Customs, and Immigration Matters, is one of the ten permanent committees of the
Pan-African Parliament
The Pan-African Parliament (PAP), also known as the African Parliament, is the legislative body of the African Union. It held its inaugural session in March 2004. The Parliament exercises oversight, and has advisory and consultative powers, ha ...
. It concentrates on the following:
* Consider matters relating to development of sound policy for cross-border, regional and continental concerns within the areas of trade, customs and immigration.
* Assist the Parliament to oversee relevant organs or institutions and policies of the
Union.
* Assist the Parliament to oversee external trade.
The committee is chaired by
Lee Maeba
Lee Ledogo Maeba is a Nigerian politician who was elected senator for the Rivers State South East constituency on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) platform in April 2003, at age 37, and was reelected in April 2007.
As of 15 March 2004, Maeba ...
of
Nigeria.
The deputy chairperson of the committee is
Dr.
Faeka AlReafi from
Egypt.
The
rapporteur of the committee is
Tsudao Gurirab
Tsudao Immanuel Gurirab (born 2 January 1961) is a Namibian politician. A member of Congress of Democrats (CoD), Gurirab was previously a member of the ruling South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) until he alongside Ben Ulenga, Ignatius ...
from
Namibia.
The primary objective of the committee is to deal specifically with matters relating to the development of policy for cross-border, regional and continental concerns within the areas of trade (primarily external trade), customs and immigration. It assists the Parliament to oversee relevant organs or institutions and AU policies relating to trade.
Trade
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