First Official Sitting of the OECS Assembly scheduled for Tuesday March 26, 2013

(Castries, Thursday, March 21st 2013) The OECS Authority has scheduled a Sitting of the OECS Assembly for Tuesday March 26, 2013.

In preparation for this sitting a Seminar has been planned to facilitate discussion of the Rules of Procedure for the OECS Assembly, and aspects of the Revised Treaty of Basseterre that support the work of the Assembly. The Seminar will be conducted on Monday, March 25 2013, (the day before the Sitting) and both events will take place at the Parliament Building in St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda commencing at 09:00 am.

At this Sitting, the OECS Assembly will be adopting its Rules of Procedure and debating the following –

1. A Motion on “The Challenges to the Free Movement of Persons within the OECS Economic Union”

2. Amendment to the Civil Aviation Act, Regulations –

a. Civil Aviation (Aeronautical Telecommunications) Regulations
b. Civil Aviation (Amendment) Regulations