The ECSRC in fulfilling its mandate to protect investors and to promote a fair, efficient and transparent securities market, is proposing to issue new Rules to the market. These new Rules, the “Eastern Caribbean Securities Market (ECSM) Corporate Governance Rules” (the Rules) will provide minimum corporate governance standards primarily for reporting issuers registered with the Commission. The Commission is therefore issuing these new rules for consultation, and is inviting market participants to provide comments on the said rules.