2 REAFFIRMING the right of State Parties to regulate within their territories and the State Parties’ flexibility to achieve legitimate policy objectives in areas including public health, safety, environment, public morals and the promotion and protection of cultural diversity; FURTHER REAFFIRMING our existing rights and obligations with respect to each other under other agreements to which we are parties; and ACKNOWLEDGING the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) Free Trade Areas as building blocs towards the establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS: PART I DEFINITIONS Article 1 DEFINITIONS For the purpose of this Agreement, (a) “Abuja Treaty” means the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community of 1991; (b) “Agreement” means this Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area and its Protocols, Annexes and Appendices which shall form an integral part thereof; (c) “Annex” means an instrument attached to a Protocol, which forms an integral part of this Agreement; (d) “Appendix” means an instrument attached to an Annex which forms an integral part of this Agreement; (e) “Assembly” means the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union; (f) “AU” means the African Union; (g) “AfCFTA” means the African Continental Free Trade Area; (h) “Commission” means the African Union Commission; (i) “Constitutive Act” means the Constitutive Act of the African Union of 2000;