Strategic Plan 2019 - 2023 PAP

The Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community (the Abuja Treaty) on 3 June 1991 (Abuja Treaty 1991) triggered the establishment of the Pan-African Parliament as an African Union Organ “to ensure the full participation of African peoples in the development and economic integration of the continent”. The Pan-African Parliament is “an inclusive representative, regional deliberative, prospective legislative and oversight institution”. The composition, powers, functions and organization of the Pan-African Parliament are defined in the Protocol to the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community relating to the Pan-African Parliament (hereinafter the PAP Protocol).