4. East African Legislative Assembly (EALA)

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The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) is the Legislative Organ of the Community and has a cardinal function to further EAC objectives, through its Legislative, Representative and Oversight mandate. It was established under Article 9 of the Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community. The Assembly has a membership comprising of 45 elected Members (nine from each Partner State), and 7 ex-officio Members consisting of the Minister or Cabinet Secretary responsible for EAC Affairs from each Partner State, the Secretary-General and the Counsel to the Community totaling 52 Members. The Assembly draws the authority to establish its Standing Committees from its Rules of Procedure. It currently has 6 Standing Committees to execute its mandate: the Accounts Committee; the Committee on Legal, Rules, and Privileges; the Committee on Agriculture, Tourism and Natural Resources; the Committee on Regional Affairs and Conflict Resolution; the Committee on Communication, Trade and Investment, and the Committee on General Purpose. The EALA Commission which oversees the management of the Assembly is established following the enactment of the Administration of the EALA Act 2012.

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Report of the Committee on LRP on the oversight activity on the implementation of the protocols and Laws governing EAC Institutions, Dar es salaam 5-8 March 2023

EALA (EALA Committee-Legal Rules and Privileges, 2023-04-04)
Report of the Committee on LRP on the consideration of the proposal to amend Rule 8096) of the Rules of Procedure of the East African Legislative Assembly

EALA; Committee on Legal Rules and Privileges (EALA-Legal Rules and Privileges, 2023-04-05)
4TH MEETING – 1ST SESSION – 5TH ASSEMBLY ORDERS OF THE DAY

Unknown author (EALA, 2023-06-09)
BUDGET SPEECH AND POLICY STATEMENT FOR FY 2023-2024: Presented to EALA

Chairperson Council of Ministers; Nibigira, Ezechiel (EAC Secretariat and Council of Ministers, 2023-06-09)
Report of the Committee on Communication,Trade and investment on the progress made in integrating the administrations of custom of the Republic of South Sudan into the EAC Customs Union 13-16 September, 2021

Unknown author (EALA-CTI, 2022-02-17)
Report of the LRP committtee on the assessment of the status of the ratification and implementation of EAC protocols and Laws by Partner states,9th-1th February 2022

EALA (EALA-Legal Rules and Privileges, 2022-06-09)
The East African Community Supplementary Appropriation (No. 2) Act, 2016

EAC (EAC, 2020-01-28)

An Act to make supplementary appropriation out of the East African Community Budget to the service of the financial year ending 30th June, 2016. Date of assent: 16th November, 2019. Date of commencement: 1st July, 2015.
The East African Community Supplementary Appropriation Act, 2018

EAC (EAC, 2020-01-28)

An Act of the Community to appropriate a supplementary sum of United States Dollars four million, nine hundred and sixty eight thousand, five hundred and ninety out of the budget of the Community for additional expenditure ...
The East African Monetary Institute Act, 2019

EAC (Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation, 2019-12-20)

An Act of the Community to establish the East African Monetary Institute as an Institution of the Community responsible for the preparatory work for the East African Community Monetary Union in accordance with Article 23 ...
The East African Community Civic Education for Integration Act, 2019

EAC (Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation, 2019-11-15)

An Act to establish a legal framework for integration education in the Community, and to provide for other related matters. Date of assent: 22nd April, 2017. Date of commencement: 15th November, 2019
The East African Community Appropriation Act, 2016

EAC (Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation, 2019-12-20)

An Act of the Community to make appropriation out of the East African Community Budget to the service of the financial year ending 30th June, 2017. Date of assent: 16th November, 2019. Date of commencement: 1st July, 2016.
The East African Community Appropriation Act, 2017

EAC (Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation, 2020-01-28)

An Act to make appropriation out of the East African Community Budget to the service of the financial year ending 30th June, 2018. Date of assent: 16th November, 2019. Date of commencement: 1st July, 2017.
The East African Community Competition (Amendment) Act, 2010

EAC (EAC, 2010)

An Act to amend the East African Community Competition Act, 2006: Amendment of section 38
Welcoming Speech by Rt. Hon. (Dr) Margaret Nantongo Zziwa, Speaker of EALA at the address of the Assembly by H.E. President Pierre Nkurunziza, at the Burundi National Assembly, Bujumbura, Burundi.

Zziwa Margaret, Nantongo Rt. Hon. (Dr) (EALA, 2013-01-22)
Speech by His Excellency Hon. Mwai Kibaki, C.G.H., M.P., President and COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of the Defence Forces of the Republic of Kenya during the address and opening of the 2nd meeting of the first session of the EAC Assembly, Parliament Buildings, 4th September 2012

Kibaki, Mwai (H.E. Hon. C.G.H., MP, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Force (EAC, 2012-09-12)
Welcoming Speech by RT. HON. Margaret Nantongo Zziwa, Speaker of EALA at the address of the Assembly by the Chairperson of Summit, Tuesday September 4, 2012, Nairobi, Kenya.

Zziwa Margaret, Nantongo Rt. Hon. (EAC, 2012-09-04)
The Consolidated Excise Tariff Act amended up to 2003: Chapter 338, The Excise Tariff Act

Unknown author (EAC, 2003)
The East African Excise (Spirits) Regulations arrangement of Regulations

EAC (EAC, 2009)
Guidelines for the application of Standard Alternative Method od Apportioning Input Tax

EAC (EAC, 2005)
Protocol on the Establishment of the East African Community Customs Union: Annex VIII (Freeport Operations) Regulations

EAC (EAC, 2005)