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Business climate: Tshisekedi for the acceleration of the effectiveness of the emergency plan in the DRC
The acceleration of the implementation of the Emergency Plan for the business climate in the Democratic Republic of Congo was requested by President Tshisekedi, to carry out the necessary reforms by the end of the year, learned on Friday the 'ACP, from the Congolese government spokesman.
"This plan, the implementation of which should cover all public services with a direct or indirect impact on the business climate and should combine the political, technical and human dimensions so that the necessary reforms are carried out by the end of this year", said government spokesman Patrick Muyaya, reading the minutes of the 101st meeting of the council of ministers, on national television.
According to Minister Muyaya, President Tshisekedi insisted on the need to put in place a system for taking charge of and monitoring the various recommendations resulting from exchanges between stakeholders during public and private dialogue.
Before making it known that Félix Tshisekedi welcomed the presentation of the results of the first survey of the National Barometer on the Business Climate (BNCA), which took place under his leadership on June 6, 2023, calling on the public power to appropriate it.
“The report is today proving to be a valuable tool, better still a mirror that allows the public authorities to face up to the realities of the economic environment as experienced daily by economic operators, in contact with the public administration and its respective facilitators,” the government spokesman said.
He added that the President of the Republic has encouraged the government to work to improve the country's overall score, despite the fact that economic operators have expressed a positive assessment of their performance in the current economic situation.
DRC-EU: discussions for the conclusion of a strategic partnership
In addition, Minister Muyaya said that discussions are underway between the DRC and the European Union for the conclusion of a partnership on the value chain of strategic minerals.
“Following the visit of the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, from March 3 to 5, the Minister of Mines and European Commissioner in charge of the Internal Market began discussions for the conclusion of a partnership on the channel responsible value chain for strategic minerals,” the government spokesperson said.
He said that this meeting was sanctioned by the commitment of the two parties to launch negotiations and to set up a working group in order to continue the said discussions with the objective of concluding a strategic partnership between the European Union and the DRC.
However, continued Patrick Muyaya, at the end of these discussions, it turned out that the scope of the partnership sought required a cross-cutting approach requiring the involvement of all the sectoral ministries concerned, including the Governance Unit which is housed in the Council.
The Prime Minister was tasked with setting up a multi-sectoral and inclusive Congolese team that will make up the negotiating committee empowered to discuss with European Union officials to lead to the signing before September 2023, of a memorandum of understanding between the DRC and the EU.
The Minister of Communication and Media stressed that the September deadline, which is that of the holding in Kinshasa of the DRC-Africa Forum devoted to battery methods, is an opportunity for the DRC to highlight such an agreement.
He further underlined that President Tshisekedi insisted that the two parties agree on a roadmap around industrial projects for the valorization of critical minerals capable of accelerating the ecological transition in the DRC and in the EU.
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