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Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Commission

Applies the rule

Administers the Eastern Caribbean economic union and its free-movement regime, and describes what member states have agreed to implement.

The body that applies the rule and decides applications. It publishes what it requires, which is authoritative about its own practice but is not the text of the law.

oecs.int

Cannot be cited for

It must not be cited for any member's law. Where we have checked, only a handful of its claims are mirrored in a national statute: its statements about identity-card travel, driving-licence recognition, social-security portability and third-country spouses had no implementing provision we could find, and must be attributed to the Commission rather than to a country. A programme it describes as being implemented is not in force by virtue of being described.

Re-check every

180 days

Publication rhythm

Content pages undated; initiatives described as in progress.

Re-check triggers

accession to or withdrawal from the protocol · adoption of a contingent rights instrument · a portability regulation

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