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ECOWAS Right of Establishment

Guinea-BissauFree movement

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Which citizenship, status or regional agreement creates the person's right to move/reside?

The ECOWAS Supplementary Protocol A/SP.2/5/90 defines establishment as settling or establishing in another Member State and accessing economic activities, including setting up and managing enterprises, under the host state's law. The official source does not establish current Guinea-Bissau implementation.

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  • The protocol is regional and does not establish the separate current Guinea-Bissau implementation position.

Under which circumstances can the person reside: worker, self-employed, student, jobseeker, self-funded person or another recognised basis?

The protocol covers access to non-salaried activities and the creation and management of enterprises or companies, subject to the laws and regulations of the country of establishment.

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  • No current Guinea-Bissau registration, licensing, authority or procedure was established.

What entry, registration or residence-document formalities remain?

The ECOWAS establishment protocol grants access to self-employed activities and to creating and managing enterprises under the same conditions that the host state's laws apply to its own nationals. The regional protocol therefore leaves the concrete Guinea-Bissau registration steps, documents, fees and competent authority to host-state law, and the official source does not state those national formalities.

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  • The current official material does not state Guinea-Bissau-specific registration steps, documents, fees, processing time or competent authority for establishment.
  • Supplementary Protocol A/SP.2/5/90, article 2
    The right of establishment as defined in Article 1 above shall include access to non-salaried activities and the exercise of such activities as well as the creation and management of enterprises and companies which comply with the definition contained in Article 3 below subject to the same conditions stipulated by the laws and regulations of the country of establishment for its own nationals.

Which non-member-country family members can accompany or join, and what broad rights do they receive?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm which non-member-country family members can accompany or join or what rights they receive.

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Limits of the record
  • The Protocol does not describe a formal application process (deadlines, deciding authority) — it grants a direct substantive right of equal treatment rather than a licensing procedure; that procedure is left to each Member State's national legislation.
  • Guiné-Bissau — Supplementary Protocol A/SP.2/5/90, Article 4(1)
    1. In matters of establishment and services, each Member State shall undertake to accord non-discriminatory treatment to nationals and companies of other Member States.
  • Guiné-Bissau — Supplementary Protocol A/SP.2/5/90, Article 7
    Article 7 1. Assets and capital invested by ECOWAS citizens who are not nationals of the Member State of establishment, having been duly authorised, shall not be subject to any act of confiscation or expropriation on a discriminatory basis. 2. Any act of confiscation, expropriation or nationalisation must be followed by fair and equitable compensation.
  • Guiné-Bissau — Supplementary Protocol A/SP.2/5/90, Article 12(3)
    3. ensure that salaried workers of one Member State employed in the territory of another Member State shall remain in the said territory to carry out nonsalaried activity on condition that they fulfill the requirements binding upon any ECOWAS citizen arriving from his State of origin for the purpose of carrying out a non-salaried activity ;

When do permanent/long-term rights arise and what continuity, absence or retention conditions matter?

The Protocol sets no validity period, expiry or renewal; the right of establishment is a continuing right of equal treatment with nationals, not a time-limited authorisation. The official source does not state any continuity, absence or retention condition.

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These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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