The Ministers are expected to sign Memoranda of Understanding on tax harmonisation and macroeconomic convergence in the SADC region. The meeting will also consider the role of Ministers of Finance in the African Union and Nepad, further steps toward macroeconomic convergence in the region, and will receive a report on the East and Southern Africa Money Laundering Group.
Decisions of this meeting will be taken to the SADC Council of Ministers in Angola, September 2002.