COMMUNAUTE ECONOMIQUE sS&I^t^ ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OFDES ETATS DE L'AFRIQUE DE 4%Zm$i^^ WEST AFRICAN STATESL'OUEST

FORTY FIRST ORDINARY SESSION OF THE AUTHORITY OF HEADS OF

STATE AND GOVERNMENT

Yamoussoukro, 29 June 2012

SUPPLEMENTARY ACT A/SA.2/06/12 ADOPTING THE ECOWAS POLICY

ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION AND ITS PLAN OFACTION

THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES;

MINDFUL of Articles 7, 8 and 9 of the ECOWAS Treaty as amended,

establishing, the Authority of Heads of State and Government and defining its

composition and functions;

MINDFUL of Article 27 of the said Treaty on Science and Technology;

MINDFUL of Protocol A/P3/1/03 on Education and Training

CONSIERING the importance of Science and Technology and Innovation forthe economic and social development of the region

CONSIDERING the objectives of the Economic Community of West AfricanStates (ECOWAS) aimed at growth and a sustainable and equitable socioeconomic development and poverty eradication;

CONSIERING to the need to establish in the ECOWAS region, sustainableinstitutional and structural mechanisms in the service of common regionalscience, technology and innovation programmes;

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CNSIDRING to the importance of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) insupporting all programmes aimed at sustainable and equitable socio-economicgrowth and poverty eradication in the region through the implementation, interalia, of the ECOWAS Community Programme (ECP), ECOWAS decisions anddeclarations, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), ECOWASPolicy on Science, Technology and Innovation, (ECOPOST) and the MillenniumDevelopment Goals (MDG);

RECALLING the prime importance accorded science, technology andInnovation by the Community Development Programme as well as the need todevelop the region's capacity to enable it coordinate collaboration in science,technology and innovation;

CONVINCED of the need to ensure a harmonized implementation of Science,Technology and Innovation (STI) programmes and projects in the MemberStates;

AWARE that inequality of income between the rich and poor countries may belargely attributable to differences in the acquisition, accumulation, disseminationand utilization of Science, Technology and STI;

DESIROUS of adopting the ECOWAS Policy on Science, Technology andInnovation and its Plan of Action

HAVING SOUGHT the ECOWAS Parliament's opinion thereon;

ON THE RECOMMENDATION of the Sixty-Eighth Ordinary Session of theECOWAS Council of Ministers held in Abidjan on 11 and 12 June 2012;

HEREBY AGREE AS FOLLOWS

Article 1

the ECOWAS Policy on Science, Technology and Innovation (ECOPOST), aswell as the attached Plan of Action hereto is hereby adoeted.

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Article 2

The Member State, as well as the ECOWAS Commission, shall ensure the

implementation of ECOPOST and its Plan of Action.

Article 3

This Supplementary Act shall be published by the Commission the CommunityOfficial Journal within thirty (30) days of its signature by the Chairman of theAuthority. It shall also be published by each Member State in its Official Gazettethirty (30) days after notification by the Commission.

Article 4

. 1.This Supplementary Act shall enter into force once published. Consequently,the signatory Member States and the ECOWAS Institutions undertake tocommence its implementation once it enters into force.

2.This Supplementary Act shall be appended to the Revised Treaty of which itforms an integral part..

Article 5

This Supplementary Act shall be deposited at the Commission which shalltransmit certified true copies thereof to all Member States, and register it withthe African Union, United Nations Organization, and all organizationsdesignated by the Council of Ministers

IN WITNESS WHEREOF WE, HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT

OF THE ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES,HEREBY APPEND OUR SIGNATURES

TO THIS SUPPLEMENTARY ACT

DONE AT YAMOUSSOUKRO THIS 29™ DAY OF JUNE 2012

IN ASINGLE ORIGINAL IN FRENCH, ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESeT^Aft ALL THREE (3) TEXTS BEING EQUALLY AUTHENTICP ALL THREE (3)

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H. E. Dr. Thomas Boni YAYI

President of the Republic of Benin

S. E. Mif. Ousman SONKOMinister of Interior and NGO Affairs, For andon behalf of the President of the Republic ofThe Gambia

H. E. M. Eflobard NIANKOYE LAMAH

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Guinean inDiaspora, For and on behalf of the Presidentof the Republic of Guinea

H. E. Mr. Joro^BorgesMinister of Foreia^rAffairs, Forand on behalfof the Presideruof the Republic of Cape Verde

Mr. Alassane OUATTARA

President of the Republic of Cote d'lvoireChairman of the Authority of Heads of State

and Government of ECOWAS

H. E. Arrrb. Chris KPODO

Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs andRegional Integration, For and on behalfof the President of the Republic of Ghana

44r-Er1\flrriVIa7iue[ Serju^-r. >> . •Interim Pres4d^QkefilTe~Republiq

of Guinea Bissau

H. E. Mrs. Ellen JOHNSON-SIRLEAF

President of the Republic of Liberia

S. E. Mr. Mahamadou ISSOUFOU

President of the Republic of Niger

J*. E. Mr. Macky SALLPresident of the Republic of Senegal

H. E. Mr. CheicR Modibb DIARRA

Prime Minister of the Transitional

Government of the Republic of Mali

H. E. Dr. Nurdde^n MOHAMMADHonourable Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

For and on behalf of the President of the

Federal Republic of Nigeria

H. E. Mr. Ernest Bai KOROMA

President of the Republic of Sierra Leone