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		For most of the ACP countries - and for virtually all African ACP countries - the EU is the main trading partner.
		The ACP countries and the EU have a long and preferential relationship.
		The EU's relations with the ACP are today governed by the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000 and concluded for a period of 20 years.
	ec.europa.eu /trade/issues/bilateral/regions/acp/index_en.htm (443 words)

	Global Coalition for Africa (GCA) / Coalition Mondiale Pour L'Afrique (CMA) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In this context, the African countries intend to clarify the numerous uncertainties and unknowns of the Regional Economic Partnership Agreements proposed by the EU and to ascertain that the adjustment costs associated with this is fully recognized and provided for.
		The ACP group (and the African subgroup therein), in line with its negotiating mandate, again emphasizes that the existing trade arrangements should be maintained for a ten-year period, so as to improve and consolidate the supply capacity of ACP (and African) economies, as well as to strengthen regional integration.
		ACP countries should begin to prepare themselves for effective participation in the global economy by undertaking and deepening economic reforms in general and trade liberalization in particular.
	www.gcacma.org /ACPEU.htm (6286 words)

	ACP People's Forum - Issues
		In the mid-May meetings, various bodies of the ACP identified precisely this attitude of the EU's as the major cause of the problems encountered in the negotiations so far, and as a threat to the development needs of ACP countries and regions.
		For the ACP, the link between the structure/procedures for negotiations and the content of the negotiations is explicit and of paramount practical import.
		ACP officials have pointed out that the structure of decision-making on allocations and disbursements, as well as the generally non-transparent and unaccountable EDF regime is already problematic.
	www.mwengo.org /acp/issues/theme2.htm (708 words)

	Foreign Direct Investment in ACP Countries
		This paper focuses on the policy environment in ACP countries and on the extent to which it is conducive to attracting FDI in a manner optimal to the national economies.
		While governments of many developing countries, including ACP countries, have clearly improved policies in general, and policies specifically related to FDI in particular, there is still need in some cases to enhance the image of policy coherence both with foreign investors and with the national private sector.
		ACP countries, with the support of the international community, need to put more emphasis on developing infrastructure and business services in the improvement of their competitive edge.
	www.acpsec.org /summits/gabon/unctad/unctad.htm (6193 words)

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		Sugar cane became established in these ACP countries owing to its remarkable adaptability to their prevailing climates; whilst numerous attempts to undertake commercial cultivation of other crops failed.
		It was at the end of the 1950's that cooperation between the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries and the considered as an entity was born.
		ACP countries are invited to sign as groups or individually, building on their own regional integration schemes.
	www.acpsugar.org /History.html (1671 words)

	The Big Issues: Reports by commitment
		Placing full responsibility on the ACP countries for their own development is nothing more than an attempt by the EU to disclaim responsibility that rests squarely on the EU.
		ACP countries that depend on primary agricultural production will derive minimum gains from regional integration that is structured to meet the raw material needs of Europe.
		This, however, ignores the fact that most of the populations of the ACP countries are agrarian and produce largely for their own subsistence.
	www.socialwatch.org /en/informesTematicos/8.html (2977 words)

	THE LOME CONVENTION
		It considers that the shape of the EU's relashionships with the ACP countries on the treshold of the 21st century needs to be examined in depth.
		As the EU is the world's largest trading bloc, and the ACP countries include a considerable proportion of the developing world, it is acknowledged that Lome Convention plays a major role in relations between the industrialised and developping countries.
		In addition, the Green paper notes, the ACP countries have failed to encrease or even maitain their EU market share, although at 40% it is very important for them.
	homepages.uel.ac.uk /mye0278s/ACP1.htm (1160 words)

	The Big Issues: Reports by commitment
		The primary focus of the debate is the trade preferences enjoyed by the ACP countries in European Union (EU) markets under the Lomé Convention, which exempt many ACP exports to the EU from tariff and other barriers.
		Non-ACP countries argue that the Lomé preferences and protocols unfairly discriminate against their products, an argument upheld by a recent GATT panel when it declared the European Commission’s banana regime to be illegal.
		“ACP States undertaking reform programmes that are acknowledged and supported at least by the principal 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”.
	www.socialwatch.org /en/informesTematicos/43.html (2405 words)

	ACP Group of States
		The ACP Group also called for a financial mechanism that could be accessed quickly to assist with the adjustment process, but which was separate and distinct from the normal EDF financial arrangements.
		This is a positive move on the ACP side especially since parliamentarians, during earlier preparatory meetings, have been debating possible moves to curb the proliferation of small arms into Africa from abroad.
		The ACP Group asked the European side to try to understand the dilemma and difficulties of ACP countries, especially in the context of the ongoing EPA negotiations.
	www.acp.int /en/jpa/barbados/pr_23-11-06e.htm (934 words)

	EU ACP > Documents > Participants' Contributions > Couleurs Lomé - Jean-Jacques Grodent
		The determination to broaden the discussion relative to the future of the Lomé Convention to representatives of ACP civil societies was in fact one of objectives pursued by the Commission in the management of this file.
		Organization, in June 1998 and in Brussels, of several meetings among representatives of the farmers' organizations of the ACP countries and the European and Belgian farmers' organizations, ACP representatives, the European officers involved in negotiations, etc.
		Organization of a press conference allowing representatives of the farmers' organizations of the ACP countries to present their thinking and demands relative to the future of the Lomé Convention (22 Belgian and European media - printed press, audiovisual press - reported on the positions of the farmers' organizations).
	www.ue-acp.org /en/documents/grodent.html (957 words)

	ACP Group of States
		The ACP parliamentarians were engaged in long discussions and debates on different matters based on presentations by the Political Affairs Committee, Committee on Economic Development, Finance and Trade, as well as the Committee on Social Affairs and the Environment.
		After some good discussion, it became apparent that the ACP countries individually needed to step up efforts to assist themselves first by adhering to fundamental universal goals such as upholding the general rule of law, respect for human rights, and to aim higher to achieve traits of Good Governance.
		The ACP parliamentarians decided that this was a matter for joint discussion with the European side since arms were exported mainly from European countries.
	www.acp.int /en/jpa/barbados/pr_18-11-06be.htm (687 words)

	Oxfam - Trade - Critique of the EC’s Action Plan for ACP countries affected by EU sugar reform (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Many ACP countries and LDCs remain concerned that the EC and EU member states have failed to take account of their concerns in the reform process.
		It states that since ’the main roots of the challenges facing Sugar Protocol countries are to be found in the structure of international trade relations’, the EU aims to improve international and regional sugar trading conditions for ACP countries through a mixture of trade and aid measures.
		Many ACP countries and LDCs rightly remain concerned that the EC and EU member states have failed to take account of their concerns in the reform process.
	www.oxfam.org.uk /what_we_do/issues/trade/acp_sugar_plan_jointbp.htm (745 words)

	Cotonou Agreement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was signed in June 2000 in Cotonou, the capital of Benin, by 77 ACP countries and the then fifteen Member States of the European Union.
		The Cotonou Agreement is aimed at the reduction and eventual eradication of poverty while contributing to sustainable development and to the gradual integration of ACP countries into the world economy.
		Although ACP governments continue to be responsible for determining their own development strategy, non-state actors and local authorities are now involved being consulted with regard to its formulation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cotonou_Agreement (807 words)

	:: 5TH ACP SUMMIT ::
		The Council of Ministers reiterated that the ACP regions should be allowed to pursue their regional integration processes at a pace that is politically, economically and socially justifiable and sustainable.
		Regarding cotton, ACP Ministers expressed their concern at the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Communities to cancel the new European aid to the cotton regime and deplored the fact that the suspension of the negotiations of the Doha Programme caused the cotton dossier to be pushed into the background.
		The ACP Ministers expressed their concern on the decision that only ACP countries under the Sugar Protocol would benefit from the additional 100 million euros expected to be made available for the European Investment Bank in the framework of the Investment Facility to encourage investment in the sugar sector.
	www.5thacpsummit.gov.sd /summit_doc_1.htm (685 words)

	30TH ANNIVERSARY OBSERVANCE OF
		Georgetown is a special place for the ACP for it was here in Georgetown 30 years ago, on June 6, 1975, that forty six (46) countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific signed the Georgetown Agreement that created the ACP Group of countries.
		In 1999, at the WTO Ministerial Conference, in Seattle, the ACP Group inserted firmly itself in the mainstream of the negotiations at the WTO as a group of small, vulnerable economies and commodity dependent countries.
		Forty years of enduring trade and economic relations between the ACP and the EU is an indication of the strategic importance of the EU to the members of the ACP.
	www.sdnp.org.gy /moftic/Speeches/SP-ACP-Observance.htm (680 words)

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		The ACP Group will have one spokesman at the Ministerial Conference in Doha The ACP Ministers of Trade, meeting in Brussels on 5 and 6 November 2001, have arrived at a common position which will be expressed at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Doha.
		The ACP Ministers of Trade consider that the draft WTO Declaration which will be tabled in Doha is ambiguous and unclear with regard to the interests of developing countries and more particularly the countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States.
		The ACP are requesting that the commitments made by the developed countries vis-à-vis developing countries in the context of the GATT be adhered to.
	www.cptech.org /ip/wto/doha/acp11072001.html (2942 words)

	EU Facts: Development and the ACP countries
		This introduced the principle of mutual obligation; that aid given to ACP countries should be linked to good governance, and involve non-state actors and local authorities.
		However ODA distributed directly by the EU to ACP countries is managed and distributed by EuropeAid, a department of the Commission.
		ACP countries also fear that EPAs will undermine local producers, by giving more competitive EU exporters unfettered access to their markets too quickly.
	www.civitas.org.uk /eufacts/FSEXR/EX6.htm (770 words)

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		The ACP Sugar Group are the eighteen African, Caribbean and Pacific states signatories to the ACP/EU Sugar Protocol.
		The Sugar Protocol is a trade agreement of indefinite duration between the European Union and the nineteen ACP states which are signatory to it.
		In some ACP countries, sugar exports under the Protocol account for over one quarter of GDP, and no less than 85% of total agricultural exports.
	www.acpsugar.org (245 words)

	EU PROPOSES DUTY- AND QUOTA-FREE ACCESS FOR ACP COUNTRIES IN EPA TALKS
		ACP countries say that their participation in the talks has been hampered by insufficient resources and negotiating capacity.
		One ACP source noted that the EU's market access offer would mean little unless associated with generous rules of origin, along with assistance to help poor country exporters meet EU health and safety standards.
		African countries in particular say that without more support, they will be unable to offset lost tariff revenue or develop their products to comply with EU standards.
	www.ictsd.org /weekly/07-04-18/story3.htm (1055 words)

	EU2007.de - ACP countries and EU Development Ministers meet in Brussels
		Negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the EU and countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific Region are the focus of the meeting.
		Other items on the agenda will be cooperation between the EU and the ACP countries in the field of trade.
		The outcome of the talks on Economic Partnership Agreements between the EU and countries from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific Region (ACP countries) will be presented on Friday, 25 May, at 5.00 p.m.
	www.eu2007.de /en/News/Press_Releases/May/0525AKP.html (226 words)

	ACP Online - Membership Information - Requirements and Guidelines (Site not responding. Last check: )
		ACP Staff Officers and the current ACP Governor in the candidate's chapter/region are not permitted to act as proposers or seconders for candidates, nor are a candidate's family members.
		Normally, the proposer and seconder should be in the ACP Governor's jurisdiction in which the candidate resides or is employed.
		One sponsor may be the President or Past President of the internal medicine or subspecialty society of the country in which the candidate resides, whether or not he or she is a current member of ACP.
	www.acponline.org /college/membership/required.htm?in (3251 words)

	EU ACP > Documents > EU-ACP Negotiations, General State of Play - Task Force Negociations
		Whilst reaffirming their backing for the objective of good governance, the ACP countries believe that the concept is ill-defined and may lead to arbitrary decisions.
		The EU has invited the ACP side to put forward proposals as to the parameters to be used for assessing the quality of governance in a country.
		This will not, however, mean reducing the scope of Community financing in the ACP countries: the Community will continue to support macroeconomic and structural policies and reforms, sectoral policies, capacity building, technical cooperation projects and programmes, and humanitarian aid (when this cannot be financed under the budget set aside for the purpose).
	www.ue-acp.org /en/documents/tfn080799.html (2843 words)

	ACP countries issue a common position on Doha ministerial
		The meeting was preceded by two days of deliberations by the officials of the ACP countries who met to consider a draft prepared by the ACP Secretariat on the Doha Ministerial, as well as to consider the Plan for Action for the Cotonou Agreement.
		From the ACP Conference it is clear that the poor countries of the world are in no mood to sacrifice their puny sovereignties to the god of free trade.
		The ACP Declaration advised the developed countries that if they wanted to create “confidence in the Organisation (the WTO) and the Multilateral Trading System”, they must then “guarantee that the process of consultation and decision-making in the WTO is transparent and inclusive, and the procedures are clearly spelt out”.
	www.twnside.org.sg /title/issue.htm (1319 words)

	EDULINK:about the programme
		It is open to all countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) and the 15 EU Member States that are signatories to the 9th European Development Fund (EDF).
		It represents a harmonised approach for the implementation of Commission-funded programmes to assist ACP States in their efforts to achieve the targets for the second Millennium Development Goal in the field of higher education, and the Dakar Goals on Education for All.
		ACP countries develop or reinforce their strategic expertise in fields linked to the socio-economic development of the country/region.
	www.acp-edulink.eu /ABOUT.html (799 words)

	FT.com / World / International economy - EU could open up sugar market
		Louis Michel, the EU's development commissioner, admitted on Wednesday that the difficulties of some ACP economies that have become reliant on the EU's generous sugar pricing raised more fundamental issues about the EU's long-standing relationship with the ACP, which are essentially former European colonies.
		ACP countries on Wednesday called for a delay until 2010 of a reform which the Commission estimates will cost them €300m ($365m, £200m) in lost revenues every year.
		Countries concerned range from Mozambique, which is in the process of turning around its sugar sector and has good port access, to landlocked Zambia, whose cost of transporting sugar to the EU is estimated at $160 a tonne.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/64cc918e-e2b9-11d9-84c5-00000e2511c8.html (732 words)

	"Energy" - Address to the 11th Session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (Vienna, 20 June 2006)
		The communication calls for energy to account for a greater share of development aid and stresses the central role it plays in three areas: the social dimension, the spotlight here being on poverty reduction; the economic dimension, where security of supply is underlined; and the environmental dimension.
		For the 1.6 billion people in developing countries lacking access to modern energy services, energy is not about what many in the developed world take for granted: the pumps being full, the public transport system working effectively, or the car starting up every morning.
		In fact, it should be stressed that, just as oil played a key part in fuelling the development of the industrialised countries in the 20th century, it should be allowed to make a similar important contribution to supporting growth in developing world economies in the future.
	www.opec.org /opecna/Speeches/2006/ACP-EU.htm (1644 words)

	Oxfam International - EU trade agreements pose huge threat to development, campaigners warn
		Countries that have not signed up to deals will face a reimposition of tariffs on their exports to the EU.
		Commit the ACP countries to liberalising their imports from the EU deeper and faster than could be expected from earlier statements (in most cases even more than 80% percent of imports is to be liberalised, mostly within fifteen years)
		Of the remaining 51 ACP countries involved in the EPA-negotiations, 12 DCs and 8 LDCs initialled interim agreements, 11 DCs and 30 LDCs did not.
	www.oxfam.org /en/news/2007/pr071220_eu_acp_council_ministers (694 words)

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