ECOWAS REVISED TREATY ARTICLE 21 FUND FOR CO-OPERATION, COMPENSATION AND DEVELOPMENT ESTABLISHMENT, STATUS AND FUNCTIONS 1. There is hereby established a Fund for Co-operation, Compensation and Development of the Community. 2. The status, objectives and functions of the Fund are defined in the Protocol relating thereto. ARTICLE 22 TECHNICAL COMMISSIONS ESTABLISHMENT AND COMPOSITION 1. 2. There is hereby established the following Technical Commissions: a) Food and Agriculture; b) Industry, Science and Technology and Energy; c) Environment and Natural Resources; d) Transport, Communications and Tourism; e) Trade, Customs, Taxation, Statistics, Money and Payments; f) Political, Judicial andLegal Affairs, Regional Security and Immigration; g) Human Resources, Information, Social andCultural Affairs; and h) Administration and Finance Commission. The Authority may, whenever it deems appropriate, restructure the existing Commissions or establish new Commissions. 3. Each commission shall comprise representatives of each Member State. 4. EachCommission may, as it deems necessary, set up subsidiary commissions to assist it in carrying out its work. It shall determine the composition of any such subsidiary commission. ARTICLE 23 FUNCTIONS Each Commission shall, within its field of competence: a) prepare Community projects and programmes and submit them for the consideration of Council through the Executive Secretary, either on its own initiative or at the request of Council or the Executive Secretary; b) ensure the harmonisation and co-ordination of projects and programmes of the Community; 15

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