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Union Commission to facilitate the processes towards its issuance at the citizen level
based on international, continental and citizen policy provisions and continental design
and specifications:
HAVE AGREED as follows:
PART | — DEFINITIONS
Article 1
DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of this Protocol:
“Assembly”
means the Assembly
Union;
of Heads
of State and Government
of the African
“Commission” means the Commission of the African Union;
“Dependant”
means
a child or other person who, a national of a Member State is
required to support and maintain as defined by the laws of the host Member State;
“Executive Council” means the Executive Council of Ministers of the Union;
“Free movement of persons” means the right of nationals of a Member State to enter
move freely and, reside in another Member State in accordance with the laws of the
host Member State and to exit the host Member State in accordance with the laws and
procedures for exiting that Member State;
“Member State” means a Member State of the African Union;
“Regional
arrangement”
means
agreements,
measures
or
mechanisms
on
free
movement of persons developed and implemented by regional economic communities;
“Right of entry” means the right of a national of a Member
State to enter and move
freely in another Member State in accordance with the laws of the host Member State;
“Right of establishment” means the right of a national of a Member State to take up
and pursue the economic activities specified in Article 17(2), in the territory of another
Member State;
“Right of residence” means the right of a national of one Member State to reside and
seek employment in another Member State other than their Member State of origin; in
accordance with the national law of the host Member State”.