to vote on matters such as that which concerned the COTED classification decision as under the arrangements prior to the entry into force of the Revised Treaty it did not participate in or have votes on decisions of the Common Market which preceded the current Single Market. Thus for decisions in COTED the 14 other Member States were entitled to a vote, and for such to decisions to be valid according to Article 29 of the Revised Treaty, at least three-quarters of the votes (that is 11 Members) are needed for the required qualified majority. Mr Reginald T. A. Armour, SC, Mr Gilbert Peterson SC, Mr Gregory Pantin, Mr Miguel Vasquez and Mr Raphael Ajodhia for the first Claimants (Trinidad Cement Limited and Arawak Cement Company Limited) and Mr Allan Wood QC and Ms Symone Mayhew for the second Claimaints (Rock Hard Cement Limited and Rock Hard Distribution Limited). Mrs Deborah Peake, SC, Ms Tamara Toolsie, Mr Brent James and Ms. Radha Sookdeo for the first Respondent (State of Trinidad & Tobago) and Ms Donna Brathwaite, QC, and Ms Gayl Scott for the second Respondent (State of Barbados) and Dr Corlita Babb-Schaefer and Mr O’Neil Francis for the third Respondent (The Caribbean Community). Lawfulness of opt-outs and non-reciprocity in regards to the benefits of Community decisions Lawfulness of opt-outs and the principle of non-reciprocity concerning a decision of the Conference to enlarge the classes of persons entitled to move and work freely in the Community (Request for an Advisory Opinion) [2020] CCJ 1 (OJ) (AO): In a historic judgement, the Court delivered its first ever advisory opinion pursuant to Article 212 of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas and the Court's own Rules. Following the request for such an opinion by the Secretary-General of the Community in March 2019 and oral hearings for the case in October 2019, the Court presented its opinion on 18 March 2020. The case centred on two questions that the Conference of Heads of Governments had agreed to ask of the Court at their 30th Inter-Sessional Meeting in February 2019, wherein it was agreed to allow two Member States to opt-out (for a period of five-year) of a recent decision by the Conference to enlarge the categories of skilled CARICOM nationals entitled free movement in Community to include security guards and agricultural workers. The questions were: (1) whether a Member State can, pursuant to the relevant