The interest of the Committee was to establish the role Parliament could play in the national effort to drive the regional integration agenda. It was of interest to explore how deeper and wider integration could be achieved as an essential ingredient for a future economic community. Taking on board the citizenry of the region and preparing them for a greater global competition and bargaining power, was regarded important. It was important to identify bottlenecks hindering deeper integration agenda, and to explore whether there was a common agenda in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The other pertinent issue was to establish whether the member states thereto understood and expected the same political outcome with regional integration.