It is our pleasure to give you access to the COPIREP commissionned and financed study, with the support of the World Bank, outlining the modalities the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) should follow to become the seventeenth OHADA Member State. We all sincerely wish that the DRC will as soon as possible sucessfully join the OHADA common system of business laws. This will represent a immense step forward for the DRC and will also constitute an historic turning point for OHADA and the necessary and extremely promising legal unification of Africa.