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 Ensure the implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement, resulting from ongoing
negotiations;
 Serve as a virtual hub linking all administrations involved in trade facilitation
procedures;
 To ensure the conformity of laws, regulations and administrative decisions with the
basic standards laid down in this respect;
 Bring greater synergy between public and private actors concerned by trade
regulations, particularly those relating to trade facilitation,
 Ensure the establishment of information points on trade facilitation;
 Formulating proposals for the improvement of road, rail, port, and airport
infrastructures.
The short term plan is to appoint National Transit Coordinator that will be a member of the
SCNFE.
In 2017, at a regional conference in Dakar, the representatives WAEMU MS, with the financial
support of the European Union agreed on establishment and operationalization of the Regional
Committee for Trade Facilitation (CRFE).
The purpose of the CRFE is to:
 Facilitate, coordinate and monitor the implementation of the TFA in the WAEMU area;
 Serve as a link between the National Trade Facilitation Committees of each Member
State;
 Monitor the implementation of WAEMU's Regional Trade Facilitation Program.