The Kingdom of Morocco signed the Revised Constitution of the African Civil Aviation Commission (AFCAC) and the Memorandum of Implementation (MoI) of the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), the AU said on Thursday in a statement.
The signing Ceremony organized by the African Union Commission was witnessed by Dr. Amani Abou-Zeid, AU Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy and Nezha Alaoui M’hammdi, Ambassador and Representative of the Kingdom of Morocco to the AU.
Currently, 35 AU Member States with a total population of more than 800 million people, accounting for 61 percent of the population on the African continent and 89 percent of intra-African air transport market have joined SAATM and have opened up their markets to each other, removing restrictions in terms of frequency, capacity and granting to each other traffic rights and this will enable intra-African transport connectivity and support improvement of trade and tourism.
By signing the SAATM Memorandum of Implementation (MOI) the countries commit to revise all their Bilateral Air Service Agreements (BASAs) with other African countries to make them compliant to the provisions of the Yamoussoukro Decision (YD) for full liberalization of air transport services.
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