ARTICLE 14: AREAS OF LEGISLATIVE COMPETENCE OF THE ORGANISATION
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14.1 The Member States agree to accord to the Organisation under Article 5.3 and subject to Article 5.4 legislative competence in relation to —
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(a) common market including customs union;
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(b) monetary policy, the competence in this category to be exercised on the recommendation of the Monetary Council;
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(c) trade policy;
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(d) maritime jurisdiction and maritime boundaries; and
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(e) civil aviation, the competence in this category to be exercised on the recommendation of the Board of Directors of the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority;
provided that a Member State need not take steps to repeal its laws in relation to such matters (which laws are otherwise compatible with this Treaty) in advance of the enactment of any Act of the Organisation, but shall refrain with effect from the date of coming into force of this Treaty from enacting any new legislation in relation to such matters save with the approval of or under powers delegated by the OECS Authority.
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14.2 The Member States agree to accord to the Organisation under Article 5.3 and subject to Article 5.4 legislative competence in relation to —
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(a) common commercial policy;
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(b) environmental policy; and
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(c) immigration policy;
reserving their right to legislate in relation to those matters within aspects of such policy not pre-empted by or under the authority of any Act of the Organisation.
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14.3 In the areas of legislative competence of the Organisation which do not fall under Article 14.1, the Organisation shall enact Acts of the Organisation only if and in so far as the objectives of the proposed action cannot, in the opinion of the OECS Authority, be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale or effects of the proposed action, be better achieved by enacting an Act of the Organisation.
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14.4 At the time of ratifying or acceding to this Treaty —
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(a) a full Member State which is not an independent State; and
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(b) an Associate Member State;
that is a party to the Treaty of Basseterre 1981, may make reservations in respect of this Article.