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Barbados Programme of Action Lomé Convention The Lomé Convention recognises the important role of such organisations in the development of the ACP States and aims through decentralised co-operation to involve the ‘decentralised agents’ (decentralised public authorities, rural and village groups, co-operatives, trade unions, NGOs etc) in developing operations. With regard to fishery access in the Lomé Convention, the value of a regional approach is recognised and moves of ACP States to harmonise the arrangements for access for fishing vessels shall be supported (ACP-EU, 1995:art.66). The importance of the health sector to ensure sustainable and self-reliant development is recognised in the Lomé Convention and the strengthening of the health sector is mainly to be done by the support of health services, health planning, training and information programmes (ACP-EU, 1995:art.154). www.antenna.nl /ecsiep/lome/barblome.html   (5854 words)

Structural adjustment and the Lomé Convention: Issues for the Post-Lomé IV negotiations First, the Lomé Convention explicitly states that ACP "reforms that are acknowledged and supported at least by the multilateral donors or that are agreed with such donors but not necessarily financially supported by them, shall be treated as having automatically satisfied the requirements for adjustment assistance", (ACP-EU Courier (155): 65). One of the weakness of the first three Lomé Conventions was that the design of the ACP countries' preferential access to EU market was based on selected, mainly traditional, commodities,and this tended to discourage diversification of ACP economies in general and industrialisation in particular. The pressure for economic reforms was further intensified by the convention's push for political reforms in terms of good governance, respect for democracy and human rights. www.ecdpm.org /pubs/wp48_gb.htm   (5496 words)

McMahon, [1997] 4 Web JCLI The insertion of Article 95 on trade development by the third Lomé Convention and the amendments introduced by Lomé IV and the mid-term review of that Convention confirm that the emphasis in the future would be the promotion of internal conditions within ACP States leading to export growth and diversification. Provision was made in each convention for the possibility of improving the agricultural trade treatment through consultations with the ACP States should they request special treatment for a product not already covered by such treatment. In the negotiations for the original Lomé Convention, both parties agreed that the promotion of trade, which recognised the differing levels of development, should be the objective of their trade co-operation. webjcli.ncl.ac.uk /1997/issue4/mcmahon4.html   (6552 words)

German government policy on Lomé : part I Since the preferential arrangement of the Lomé Convention is different from the GSP and gives an advantage to ACP countries (in other words, it discriminates against other developing countries), it was not possible to justify the Lomé preferences on the basis of the GATT arrangements for the benefit of developing countries. For measures such as emergency and refugee aid, which can receive funding both according to Articles 254 and 255 of the Lomé Convention and from budget lines under Chapter 7-2 of the Community budget, either funding from the Community budget or under the ACP Convention should be abolished. This is why, given the lack of reciprocity, the GATT contracting parties have not recognized the Lomé Convention as a free trade agreement consistent with the criteria of Article XXIV (elimination of duties and quantitative restrictions for substantially all the trade). library.fes.de /fulltext/iez/01126a.htm   (7213 words)

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FACT SHEETS - 6.4.6. The special arrangements for the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, from the Yaoundé and Lomé Conventions to the Cotonou Agreement After the expiration of the fourth Lomé Convention on 29 February 2000, the Partnership Agreement signed in Cotonou (Benin) on 23 June 2000 establishes a new framework for the future relations between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States. Just like the Lomé Convention, the Cotonou Agreement aims to improve the standards of living and economic development of the ACP Countries and establish close cooperation in a spirit of complete equality. The Fourth Lomé Convention was signed on 15 December 1989 for a period of 10 years (with the possibility of amending the Convention after five years) and came into force on 1 March 1990; the associated Financial Protocol was adopted for five years only. www.europarl.eu.int /factsheets/6_4_6_en.htm   (2527 words)

The Lomé Convention under threat, by Anne-Marie Mouradian The Lomé Convention is the most ambitious cooperation programme between a group of countries - the fifteen countries of the European Union - and a group of developing countries - the 71 countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP). Europe is preparing to negotiate the fifth Convention, and international finance and trade organisations are insisting that it be brought into line with the rules of the new world economic order. The Lomé Convention is the most complete and ambitious attempt at engineering a progressive agreement between North and South. mondediplo.com /1998/06/08lome   (2556 words)

Statewatch News online: Lome Convention used to impose repatriation on world's poorest countries The negotiations between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP) on a new Lomé Convention, begun in 1998, were completed in February. The EU-ACP Lomé IV Convention agreed in February includes Article 13 on "Migration". Lomé Convention used to impose repatriation on the world's poorest countries www.statewatch.org /news/jul00/01lome.htm   (2768 words)

The Lomé Convention: A Historical/Political Perspective The constant dialogue between the ACP and EU enshrined in the Convention enables flexibility to be introduced in the cooperation to suit the special circumstances affecting an ACP country. The Lomé Conventions have continued to emphasise the objectives of the Yaoundé Conventions by maintaining cooperation between the EEC and its former colonies in the areas of trade and development finance cooperation. The basic difference between the Yaoundé Conventions and the Arusha and Lagos agreements, was that the former emphasised financial and technical cooperation, while the latter emphasised trade. www.ecdpm.org /pubs/schulte1.htm   (3025 words)

EUROPA - Development - Cotonou Agreement - Introduction From 1975 until 2000 these relations were governed by the regularly adapted and updated Lomé Convention.However, major upheavals on the international stage, socio-economic and political changes in the ACP countries, the spreading of poverty, resulting in instability and potential conflict, all highlighted the need for a re-thinking of cooperation. The February 2000 expiration of the Lomé Convention provided an ideal opportunity for a thorough review of the future of ACP-EU relations. Against a background of an intensive public debate, based on a Commission Green paper (1996)* and a discussion paper**, negotiations started in September 1998 and were successfully concluded in early February 2000. europa.eu.int /comm/development/body/cotonou/index_en.htm   (357 words)

WTO Dispute Settlement - Mutually Acceptable Solution - EC - Regime for the Importation, Sale, and Dsitribution of Bananas - Part 6 EC - The Fourth ACP-EC Convention of Lomé, Extension of Waiver, Decision of the WTO General Council of 14 October 1996, WT/L/186, 18 October 1996. Preferential treatment that is authorized or called for in the Lomé Convention, or reflected in its objectives, may well be preferential treatment "foreseen" under the Lomé Convention, but it is not necessarily preferential treatment "required" or made mandatory by the Lomé Convention. Neither the Lomé Convention's provisions on trade development (Articles 135-138), nor its provisions on development finance cooperation (Articles 220-327), can be interpreted as requiring that elements other than the best-ever levels (e.g. www.sice.oas.org /DISPUTE/wto/banab6.asp   (6904 words)

German government policy on Lomé : part II The aim of the Convention is to promote autonomous economic, social and cultural development of the ACP countries, based on their own decisions and programmes. During the duration of the Convention, coordination of questions of implementing the Convention is handled by the joint committees (with an equal number of representatives from both sides). The Lomé III Convention focused on rural development as a means of meeting basic needs and on cooperation in fishing and sea transportation, while Lomé IV addressed the question of food security and self-sufficiency in foods. library.fes.de /fulltext/iez/01126b.htm   (9264 words)

Solidarietà e partenariato - Position paper del COCIS While on the one hand the Convention's general approach may still be considered valid, on the other, the limited scope of its results and the problems that have beset its implementation are obvious. In addition, in the new Lomé Convention an independent institution should be envisaged, where individuals and communities who are negatively affected by programmes carried out under the agreement can have the opportunity to complain and to benefit from corrective measures and compensation for the damage they have suffered. Development NGOs throughout Europe are therefore mobilising to bring the debate on the renewal of the Lomé Convention out of the "semi-clandestine" circle of insiders and to raise awareness in civil society and public opinion in general in their countries about the content and implications of this important cooperation agreement. www.cocis.it /posit_en.html   (8526 words)

International Development Committee Press Notice No. 2 The Lomé Convention is the basis for the European Union's development co-operation programme with 71 countries of Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP). Requirements for the renegotiation of the Convention and priorities for Lomé V. Memoranda, accompanied by an Executive Summary, should be sent to the Clerk of the Committee, Yusef Azad, by Friday 19 September. The Committee will consider all relevant issues arising from the renegotiation of the Lomé Convention, in particular: www.parliament.uk /commons/selcom78/indpnt2.htm   (265 words)

SICE - WTO - EC - REGIME FOR IMPORTATION OF BANANAS - COMPLAINT BY GUATEMALA AND HONDURAS /D Article 168 of the Lomé Convention, as delimited by Protocol 5 and Annex LXXIV, could only be interpreted to authorize tariff preferences and direct aid as a means of ensuring that no traditional ACP State received less favourable access and advantages than those previously received. The Lomé Convention allowed full discretion, therefore, as to which means (and specific measures) the EC used to fulfil its obligations, in order that the overall objectives were met. IV.41 During the negotiations of the Lomé Convention, the EC single market programme was already under way and it could be foreseen that this would have some repercussions on the way in which the Banana Protocol was going to be applied. www.sice.oas.org /dispute/wto/RHND4.asp   (6723 words)

The Lomé Convention And Conflict Prevention Their aim was to assess the existing Commission proposals for European Union (EU) - African Carribean and Pacific (ACP) relations and to inform the negotiations on a successor agreement, due to commence in September 1998. With the ACP countries emphasising the development of their manufacturing sectors and value added goods as part of a process of economic diversification, the EU should provide support by opening access to the single market for such goods. On June 2-3 1998, over 40 individuals gathered in London for a seminar on conflict and development, referring specifically to the future of the Lomé Convention. www.saferworld.co.uk /publications/publome.htm   (2314 words)

sidspoa Regional Indicative Programme for the Pacific ACP Region- Fourth Lomé Convention, Second Financial Protocol, 19 September 1997. National Indicative Programme for Co-operation under the Second Financial Protocol of the fourth Lomé Convention between the Independent State of Papua New Guinea and the Commission of the European Communities, 26 September 1997. In the year 2000 the current Lomé IV-bis Convention, the agreement between the European Union and 71 African, Caribbean and Pacific States on trade and development co-operation, will expire. www.antenna.nl /ecsiep/lome/sidspoa.html   (3196 words)

The Pacific ACP States and the End of the Lomé Convention If the Lomé Convention is the midwife of the Pacific ACP canned tuna industry, then the rule of origin must be seen as the instrument whose use has given rise to a badly handicapped infant whose parents now apparently wish to discard it. Because the Lomé Convention encompasses both trade and economic relations between ACP states and the EU, it has impacted the economies of the region in a far more significant way than policy makers appear to be aware. The Lomé Convention has created, through trade preference and the exportation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to the region, what is in effect the continuation of colonial economic structures long after they would have otherwise died a natural death. www.euforic.org /fes/1gb_gry.htm   (9865 words)

EUROPA - Development - Cotonou Agreement -Lomé history Lomé IV This is the first Convention to cover a ten-year period, even though the attached financial protocol has a duration of five years. Its main characteristics are: the partnership principle, the contractual nature of the relationship, and the combination of aid, trade and political aspects, together with its long-term perspective (5 years for Lomé I, II, and III, and ten for Lomé IV). Signalling the Convention's flexibility, Lomé IV became the first development agreement to incorporate a human rights clause as a 'fundamental' part of cooperation (article 5). europa.eu.int /comm/development/body/cotonou/lome_history_en.htm   (2033 words)

European Parliament defends Lomé Convention against WTO While negotiations on the future of the Convention, first signed in 1975, will start in September 1998, the WTO has recently ruled that preferential access to EU markets for Caribbean bananas contravenes global rules of free trade. The European Commission, which is the secretariat of the EU, has recently acknowledged that such rulings by the WTO are incompatible with the Lomé Convention. It is the fourth in a series of accords between 70 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP) and the 15 European Union (EU) countries which give aid and preferential access to European markets. www.un.org /ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/subjindx/112trad.htm   (217 words)

Lome Trade Lome The EU commitments to the ACP countries regarding sugar are included in the EU's GATT schedules presented in Marrakech in the form of a duty-free quota for India (10 000 tonnes) and the ACP countries (1 294 700 tonnes) in accordance with the Lomé Convention. The performance of ACP countries in manufactured goods overall has deteriorated, the increase in their export volume having reached only 1.5% in 1988-97, while developing countries as a whole were able to double their export volume in the same period. Only five ACP countries had export growth equal to or greater than the other developing countries as a result of their margin of preference: Mauritius, Jamaica and, to a lesser extent Madagascar in the textiles sector; and Kenya and Zimbabwe for cut flowers and fruit and vegetables. www.ips.org /lome/trade_en.htm   (6901 words)

Lomé 2000 Since negotiations began over the successor to the Lomé Convention, in 1998, ODI has contributed actively to the debate on the future trade relations between the ACP and the EU, in particular through its collaboration with the European Centre for Development Policy Management (Maastricht). A new, more ambitious, 20-year 'Partnership Agreement' was signed in Benin on 23 June, between the European Community and 77 countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (including the Marshall Islands, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue and Palau, which joined the ACP group on that occasion). After 25 years of being the largest aid and trade agreement between developed and developing countries, the Lomé Convention expired in February 2000. www.odi.org.uk /iedg/lome.html   (6901 words)

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FACT SHEETS - 6.4.6. The special arrangements for the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, from the Yaoundé and Lomé Conventions to the Cotonou Agreement Just like the Lomé Convention, the Cotonou Agreement aims to improve the standards of living and economic development of the ACP Countries and establish close cooperation in a spirit of complete equality. After the expiration of the fourth Lomé Convention on 29 February 2000, the Partnership Agreement signed in Cotonou (Benin) on 23 June 2000 establishes a new framework for the future relations between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States. The new Agreement also focuses on the sustainable economic development of ACP States and their smooth and gradual integration into the global economy through a strategy combining trade, investments, private-sector development, financial cooperation and regional integration (4.2). www.europarl.eu.int /factsheets/6_4_6_en.htm   (2527 words)

Negotiating a Fait Accompli: The WTO Incompatibility of the Lomé Convention Trade Provisions and the ACP-EU Negotiations Negotiating a Fait Accompli: The WTO Incompatibility of the Lomé Convention Trade Provisions and the ACP-EU Negotiations  Negotiating a Fait Accompli: The WTO Incompatibility of the Lomé Convention Trade Provisions and the ACP-EU Negotiations   Thus it is very likely that the EU has in effect offered the ACP a fait accompli in the area of trade over one and a half years before the negotiations begin. www.ecdpm.org /pubs/wp38_gb.htm   (2527 words)

Africa Recovery/UN/13#4/WTO meeting in Seattle (2) Since the first Lomé Convention in 1975, the ACP countries -- all former European colonies -- have enjoyed preferential access to European markets for many of their exports. The 71 member countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific group (ACP) are negotiating a renewal of the trade and aid agreement with the European Union (EU), known as the Lomé Convention. However, extension of the favourable trade preferences for ACP countries has fallen under the shadow of the World Trade Organization (WTO). www.un.org /ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol13no4/30tradbx.htm   (1223 words)

The European Union in 1996 Relations with the ACP countries in 1996 were marked by the start of the process of ratification and implementation of the agreement on the revision of the fourth Lomé Convention. The Commission also adopted a Green Paper on relations between the European Union and the ACP countries, which sets out the options for revitalizing the partnership, in anticipation of the expiry of the fourth Lomé Convention in February 2000. The European Union sought to prove in 1996 that the rigorous efforts made by the Member States are being matched in its own public finances. europa.eu.int /abc/doc/off/rg/en/1996/summary1.htm   (1223 words)

Bulletin EU 3-1997 (en): 1.4.99 Sir John Kaputin stressed the need for regional and interregional cooperation between ACP States and deplored the backlog that had occurred in the ratification of the revised Lomé IV Convention. The Joint Assembly was jointly chaired by Lord Henry Plumb (United Kingdom) and Sir John Kaputin (Papua New Guinea) and attended by Mr Gil-Robles, President of the European Parliament, Mr Pinheiro, and Mr Rabuka, President of the ACP Council. On the question of the future of the ACP-EC partnership, Mr Gil-Robles stressed the very important part the Joint Assembly would have to play in the discussions initiated by the Commission, whilst Lord Plumb pleaded for greater transparency of cooperation and the organization of information campaigns. europa.eu.int /abc/doc/off/bull/en/9703/p104099.htm   (220 words)

Market acces - Executive brief The market-access provisions of the Cotonou agreement are based on the non-reciprocal trade preferences extended to ACP countries under the earlier Lomé Convention which will remain in place until December 31st 2007. The terms of the Cotonou Agreement (Annex V Chapter 1, Article 1 (d)) makes it clear that the market-access arrangements established for ACP exports are subordinated to the development of the EU’s own common organisation of the market in these products. Overall the value of the preferential market access in the agricultural sector granted to ACP countries under both the Cotonou Agreement and the EBA initiative is being greatly reduced. agritrade.cta.int /market/executive_brief.htm   (220 words)

Bulletin EU 9-1996 (en): 1.4.59 The Assembly was jointly chaired by Lord Henry Plumb (United Kingdom) and Sir John Kaputin (Papua New Guinea) and attended by Mr Pinheiro and Mr Rajkeswer Perryag, President of the ACP Council. In his turn, Sir John referred to the negotiations on future relations between the Union and the ACP States and advocated the holding of regional seminars to which the private sector and non-governmental organizations as well as the institutions should contribute. In his address Mr Pinheiro reminded those present that the parties to the revised Lomé IV Convention had agreed to develop new forms of interdependence and called for rapid ratification of the new Convention and the accompanying Financial Protocol which was a prerequisite for implementation of the European Development Fund. europa.eu.int /abc/doc/off/bull/en/9609/p104059.htm   (220 words)

Novita' CDE The second EU-ACP Ministerial Conference since the opening of negotiations on 30 September 1998 on a new Development Partnership Agreement to succeed the current Lomé Convention, due to expire in February 2000, was held in Brussels on 29 and 30 July 1999. - Central Group: Political and Institutional Matters - Co-Chair: Ms Satu HASSI (Minister for the Environment and Development of Finland and President of the Council of the EU) and Mr Séverin ADJOVI (Minister for Trade, Craft Trade and Tourism of Benin and President of the ACP Council of Ministers); The European Union delegation was led by Ms Satu HASSI, Minister for the Environment and Development of Finland and President of the Council of the EU. www.lex.unict.it /cde/documenti/rel_ester/98_99/acp22_09_99en.htm   (220 words)

Cooperation with Politically Fragile Countries: Lessons from EU Support to Somalia Somalia does not have a representative within the ACP Group and, within the current renegotiation of the Lomé Convention, the negotiating mandates of neither the Commission nor the ACP states have made particular provision for the country’s current situation. Somalia received 72 mecu under the pre-1976 Treaty of Rome and two Yaoundé Conventions, all channelled through national indicative programmes (NIPs). Somalia broke with the IMF in September 1987 and in May 1988 was declared ineligible for further borrowing due to accrued arrears. www.ecdpm.org /pubs/wp66_gb.htm   (12693 words)

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