The economic union provides the political space and the economic environment to treat with one of the fundamental structural issues that has dogged the OECS countries throughout their economic history and marred their relations with the other countries of the region, that is, critical mass. This has manifested itself in the high cost of government and the extremely small size of domestic markets.
Such as established in the Law, during 2007 the currency exchange should be done at the commercial banks, but even so, the people who by serious reasons are unable to change their money during this period, they will have the opportunity to do it at the Banco de Moçambique until 2012.