The Algeria Market Authority reported the official admission of shares in the public economic enterprise EPE CRAPC EXPERTISE SPA to the official list of the Algiers Stock Exchange. Trading was officially launched in the Growth Compartment of the equity market, with the start of quotation marked by the exchange bell ceremony. The ceremony at the Algiers Stock Exchange was presided over by the minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Kamel Baddari, and the minister of Finance, Abdelkrim Bouzred, and was attended by COSOB Chairman Youcef Bouzenada, Algiers Stock Exchange Chief Executive Amal Selmoun and other financial market participants. COSOB framed the listing as part of the continued development of Algeria's domestic financial market.