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    "id": 10358,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/10358/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for East African Community",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": "(a)The following laws have been passed by EALA and have some impact on the economy of Kenya. (i) The East African Standardization Quality Assurance, Metrology and Testing Act, 2006, whose import is to standardize goods produced in the East African region, and whose impact has been to improve the quality of goods that are circulating in the East African market. (ii) The Inter-Universities Council for East Africa Act, 2008 whose impact is to also promote standards in higher education, common standards in the management of higher education in East Africa. This is the Act that establishes the Inter-Universities Council for East Africa, whose work is to promote common standards in higher education in East Africa. (iii) The EAC Joint Trade Negotiations Act, 2007 that requires the East African countries to negotiate trade pacts jointly, so that they get similar terms from whichever country they negotiate with. For instance, this is the Act that is now being used to negotiate the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the European Union; it is also the same Act that is being used to negotiate a free trade area between the EAC, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). (iv) The East African Civil Aviation, Safety and Security Oversight Agency (CASSOA), which creates that agency that is intended to promote air safety in the East African region. (v) The other Act which has been passed but not yet assented to by all the partner states is the East African Competition Act, 2006, whose purpose is to promote rules of competition in East Africa. This law is not yet operational because certain member states have not domesticated it into their domestic regimes for it to start Operating. (vi) The Lake Victoria Transport Management Act, 2007, whose import is to promote and regulate maritime safety in the Lake Victoria basin. (b) The Ministry has carried out several seminars under the auspices of The Speaker’s Roundtable to sensitize hon. Members on the East African Common Market and the East African Federation. We have already carried out two seminars with Members of this House; one was held in Nairobi and the other was in Mombasa. We have also done sensitization across the country and we have been able to cover half of the counties in sensitizing the members of the public on the common market and the East African integration. In our next programme, we intend to cover the rest of the counties that were not covered in the first phase of this sensitization programme on the East African integration."
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