- Clients: means Government Ministries and Departments;
- ICD: means the International and Commercial Division
- ICD mandate: providing legal advice and drafting and negotiating commercial and international agreements;
- Secondment: decentralising legal services to Ministries and Departments;
- AfCFTA: African Continental Free Trade Area
- SACUM UK EPA: means the Economic Partnership Agreement between the Southern African Customs Union and Mozambique and the United Kingdom;
- SADC and EU EPA: means the Economic Partnership Agreement between Southern African Development Committee and the European Union;
- Tripartite Agreement: means the trade agreement between COMESA, EAC and SADC;
- COMESA: means a regional intergovernmental organization called the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa; and
- EAC: means a regional intergovernmental organization called the East African Community.
