THE NILE BASIN INITIATIVE ACT
THE NILE BASIN INITIATIVE ACT, 2002.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. NBI to have capacity of a body corporate.
4. Financial provisions.
5. Immunities and privileges of NBI and its officials.
SCHEDULE
AGREED MINUTE NO. 7.
THE NILE BASIN INITIATIVE ACT, 2002.
An Act to confer legal status in Uganda on the Nile Basin Initiative, and otherwise give the force of
law in Uganda to the signed Agreed Minute No. 7 of the 9th Annual Meeting of the Nile Basin
States held in Cairo, Egypt, on 14th February 2002; and to provide for other connected or incidental
matters.
WHEREAS, currently, there is no regional or international Treaty or Agreement among the riparian States
of the Nile River Basin, namely, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia,
Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, on cooperation in the utilization of the waters of the Nile
River Basin;
AND WHEREAS the Government of the Republic of Uganda and the Governments of the other Nile
Basin States at the meeting of their Council of Ministers held in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, on 22nd February,
1999 established a “Transitional Institutional Mechanism of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI)”, pending the
conclusion of a “Cooperative Framework Agreement”, based on a vision “to achieve sustainable socioeconomic
development through equitable utilization of, and benefit from, the common Nile Basin water
resources”;
AND WHEREAS the Government of Uganda and the Governments of the other States at the 9th annual
meeting of their Council of Ministers held in Cairo, Egypt, on 14th February, 2002, adopted “Agreed
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