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ECOWAS Right of Establishment

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

The ECOWAS right of establishment is created for a citizen who is a national of a Member State and permits settlement or establishment in another Member State, including access to economic activities and setting up or managing enterprises.

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  • ECOWAS official protocol capture
    "Right of Establishment" means the right granted to a citizen who is a national of the Member State to settle or establish in another Member State other than his State of Origin, and to have access to economic activities, to carry out these activities as well as to set up and manage enterprises, and in particular companies, under the same conditions as defined by the legislation of the host Member State for its own nationals.

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

The route is for non-salaried activities and for creating or managing enterprises and companies, under the host country's laws and conditions applicable to its own nationals.

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  • ECOWAS official protocol capture
    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.

What entry, registration or residence-document formalities remain?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the entry, registration or residence-document formalities.

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Limits of the record
  • The captured protocol does not provide Guinea-specific registration documents, fees or processing times.
  • ECOWAS official protocol capture
    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.

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

Non-discriminatory treatment with host-state nationals in accessing and carrying out establishment activities; protection against discriminatory confiscation or expropriation, with fair and equitable compensation if it occurs; a salaried worker already employed in another Member State may remain there to take up non-salaried activity, subject to the ordinary requirements for that activity.

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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.
  • Guinée — 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.
  • Guinée — 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.
  • Guinée — 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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