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Andean Community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In August 2003, the Andean Community and Mercosur Foreign Ministers, during a meeting in Montevideo at which the CAN delivered a working proposal containing guidelines for the negotiation, reaffirmed their governments' political determination to move ahead with the negotiation of a free trade agreement between the two blocs. In 2000, Meeting of the South American Presidents, at which the Andean Community Heads of State and Mercosur decide to launch negotiations for establishing a free trade area between the two blocs as rapidly as possible and by January 2002, at the latest. In 1979, the treaty creating the Court of Justice was signed and the Andean Parliament created and the Andean Council of Foreign Ministers were created. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andean_Community

The EU's relations with the Andean Community - Overview As regards regional programmes, the European Community is the only donor consistently dedicating a substantial aid effort to the consolidation of the Andean Community as such. Trade with the Andean Community represents approximately 0.8% of the EU’s total trade, while the EU represents 14.1% of the Andean Community trade. Most recent figures show that, due to the Most Favoured Nation clause and to the GSP, 90% of products exported from the Andean Community to the EU are exempt from custom duties. europa.eu.int /comm/external_relations/andean/intro/index.htm

EUROPA - TRADE - TRADE ISSUES EU direct investment in the Andean Community has significantly increased in the last few years, with the EU countries becoming the biggest investors in the Andean region, especially through their participation in the privatisation processof certain services and public undertakings, in the financial system and manufacturing, mining and oil activities. For the Andean Community, the EU is the second largest trading partner after the US (the EU represents 14.5% of CAN's total trade, i.e., 17.4% of its imports and 12.8% of its exports). Co-operation with the Andean Community currently takes place in the context of the Framework Co-operation Agreement signed between the EU and the Andean Community in 1993. europa.eu.int /comm/trade/issues/bilateral/regions/andean/index_en.htm

ENVIRONMENT: Andean Nations Clash with U.S. on Patenting Life Forms But the U.S. proposal for patenting plants and animals has generated concern throughout many different sectors of the Andean community. The Andean countries also support the 1991 Convention of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, which establishes an intellectual property framework for plant varieties very similar to patents, and recognise the rights of plant scientists and farmers. The Andean law is broadly applied,'' Luis Angel Madrid, ministry official and negotiator spokesman for the panel on intellectual property, told Tierramérica. www.ipsnews.net /new_nota.asp?idnews=26329

psei149_e.doc The Andean Community (in which Colombia's border trade with Venezuela and Ecuador stands out) is the most significant of this array of integration processes, because of its positive impact in last 30 years on the domestic economy—indeed, allowing the consolidation of an important industrial and entrepreneurial base in South America. The national legal framework is also applicable to both nationals and foreigners, with some exceptions, which are set forth in the Constitution or in specific laws, or listed as reservations or limitation in the trade agreements that Colombia has signed. All of this is being carried out in light of the demands of the national and the international market through a coordinated effort among the state sector, the private sector and academic institutions. www.ftaa-alca.org /SpComm/SME/publicdocs/psei149_e.doc

Andean Nations Bet on Bio-Trade The Andean countries, according to recommendations received by CAF and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, should step up value-added activities in taking advantage of their biodiversity, and intensify efforts to regulate and jointly negotiate their potential in integration and free trade agreements that are under way. The Andean countries are trying to promote production for bio-trade, ''and in each one we face difficulties in obtaining financing, the lack of research, the lack of development of new products and a failure to consolidate what we have to offer,'' said Patricia Londoño, consultant to the ''green markets'' group in the Colombian Environment Ministry. Trade and organizing rural and indigenous communities to make the most of their natural resources are part of the first phase in the ''new wave'', before full sustainable exploitation of biodiversity, which requires financing and research, and the region is far from obtaining those, said CAF environment director Roberto López. www.tierramerica.net /2004/0731/iarticulo.shtml

SICE - XI Andean Presidential Council / Act of Cartagena To instruct the Andean Community Commission, in an Enlarged Meeting with the Ministers of Agriculture, to define a Common Agricultural Policy and adopt an Action Plan to be implemented as of the year 2000. The Andean Community has ahead of it the great historic challenge of strengthening its validity, vigor and international projection in the century that is about to start. The Community Policy on Border Integration and Development will be directed by the Andean Council of Foreign Ministers, with the contributions of the Commission, the Advisory Council of Treasury or Finance Ministers, Central Banks and Planning Authorities, and of the pertinent Community bodies, as appropriate. www.sice.oas.org /Trade/Junac/XIacta_e.asp

Integration Bulletin for Latin America and the Caribbean 5 The result of the meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Ministers of the Economy of the Andean Community of Nations (the new formal name for the Andean Pact), held in Quito on June 25 and 26 1997, was the return of Peru to the subregional group. Now, the Andean Group is formally called the Andean Community of Nations and the Board of the Cartagena Agreement has been replaced by a Secretariat General headed by the Venezuelan Ambassador, Sebastián Alegrett. The meeting of Andean Ministers of Economy and their colleagues from the Common Market of the South, which was to be held on June 25, Cartagena, was postponed because the Andean meeting in Quito was expanded to consider the case of Peru. www.sela.org /public_html/AA2K/EN/integra/engint5.htm

psei145_e.doc The Andean Council of Ministers of Foreign Relations establishes the priorities of the Common Foreign Policy and coordinates its implementation through the Council's Pro Tempore Secretariat, which is run by the Foreign Ministry of the Andean country that holds the yearly presidency of the Andean Community, and with the technical support of the General Secretariat. For this purpose, the Presidents recognized that the Andean Community will have to move on to second generation policies within the framework of a multidimensional agenda, policies that are based on five pillars: the social agenda, the broadening of the common foreign policy, the building of the Common Market, physical integration, and border development. FDI in the Andean Community rose from an annual average of USD 2.838 billion in 1990-1994 to an annual average of 9.316 billion in 1995-2001. www.ftaa-alca.org /SpComm/SME/publicdocs/psei145_e.doc

MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News Chile’s insertion in the Community of Andean Nations, CAN (Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela) is “rather complicated” because Chile’s external tariffs are far lower than the rest of those countries, said Chilean president Ricardo Lagos. During an extraordinary meeting of the Andean Community, it was agreed that Chile could act as an observer of the group to which it belonged from 1969 to 1976, when it was known as the Andean Pact. As to the III South American summit with the participation of twelve countries, which will see the founding of a new South American political and economic block including Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), the Andean Community plus Chile, Surinam and Guyana, President Lagos adopted a pragmatic attitude. www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=4784

MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News The Peruvian minister said that the new bloc, made up of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), Mercosur, Chile, Guyana and Surinam, will cover 17 million square kilometers (6.5 million square miles) inhabited by 361 million people, and will boast annual exports of more than $180 billion and a GDP greater than $973 billion. Twelve countries of South America will establish next Wednesday the South American Community of Nations at the 3rd Presidential Summit of the region, to be held in the Peruvian city of Cuzco. Rodriguez Cuadros added that the South American Community incorporates the project for the Integration of South American Regional Infrastructure (IIRSA) and the free-trade accords between Mercosur and the Andean Community. www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=4757

SOUTH AMERICA: Brazil's Business Community not Keen on Integration Plan The new South American community of nations will unite the economic strength of Mercosur, three of whose members are on the Atlantic coast, with the strategic location of the Andean countries on the Pacific, he underlined. The plan is a "grand fantasy" based on "two less ambitious fantasies": the Mercosur (Southern Common Market) trade bloc, and its free trade agreement with the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), the editorial added. But agricultural trade between the two blocs and the competition posed by farm products from the Andean nations are so limited that a lack of reciprocity does not worry Brazil's agribusiness sector, according to André Nassar, executive director of ICONE, who says the agreement is basically "political". www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=26594

Mercosur and Andean Community sign free trade pact The interest in strengthening regional integration within Latin America was reflected in the resolutions approved Monday by the foreign ministers of the 12 ALADI member nations: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. Peruvian Foreign Minister Manuel Rodríguez, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the CAN, described the agreement as ”the most important step towards Latin American integration” and a decisive move in the direction of ”the creation of a South American Community.” The CAN and Mercosur together form a region of 17 million square kilometres, with a combined gross domestic product (GDP) of 800 billion dollars — greater than the GDP of Canada and of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), noted Rodríguez. www.bilaterals.org /article.php3?id_article=860

ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Commissioner Patten to visit Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador from 19 to 23 January Relations between the EU and Ecuador are mainly carried out on a regional basis with the other countries of the Andean Community through the framework agreement establishing this co-operation, which was signed in 1993, and entered into force in 1998. Following two rounds of negotiations, the EU and the Andean Community successfully concluded agreed on a new Political Dialogue and Co-operation Agreement in Quito on 15 October 2003. The Andean Community receives 27% of all allocations to Latin America from the EU budget. www.reliefweb.int /w/RWB.NSF/0/c661b674b87847d3c1256e1d005aa895?OpenDocument

4,000 kilometers of railways to be built in Venezuela's National Railroad Plan Upon the initiation of the works in the first stage of the central-western stretch, the tracts connecting the central and the western region of the country with The Andes, the southern region and the eastern regions will be built in stages. Finally, Garcia Ontivero explained that 85% of what is needed to finish the construction of the national railroad system, like materials, technical staff and workers in general, can be supplied in Venezuela. The president of Venezuela's Autonomous State Railroad Institute (INFE), Angel Garcia Ontivero announced that the National Railroad Plan is intended to build 4,000 km of railways throughout the country in the next 20 years. www.vheadline.com /printer_news.asp?id=23961

NewsLetter - NEW LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF FOREIGN INVESTMENTS IN VENEZUELA Decree 2.095, provides for a definition of Subregional Investor, as the "National Investor from any other member country of the Andean Community of Nations" and, accordingly the definition of Subregional Investment encompasses any investment that is made by a Subregional Investor. With the enactment of the New Law, the definition of International Investment embraces a broader possibility of conducting and/or having an investment in Venezuela and is not limited to those contemplated in the definition of Direct Foreign Investment as established in the Decision 291 of the Andean Community and in Decree 2.095. The Republic, through its national competent agencies, depending on the economic sector involved, may enter into juridical stability agreements ("Contratos de Estabilidad Jurídica") for the purpose of providing the investment (investors) with assurances of the stability of certain economic conditions during the time they are in force, such as: www.bomchilgroup.org /venmar00.html

United Press International: Colombia cautious on FTA talks As part of that accord, the Andean nations agreed that trade relations will not treat the Andean Community as secondary to agreements made with nations outside the community. The Andean Community of Nations includes Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, united by common trade and economic issues. "Colombia does not see it as correct to subordinate the integration of the Andean Community of Nations to the FTA with the United States. www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20040722-125506-9180r

Serebella Contents Andean Community---Andean Flamingo The practices and academic disciplines of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens and professionals to improve various aspects of local communities. It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Community". www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/contains-29653-29656-Andean_Community-Andean_Flamingo.html

Andean Community of Nations (CAN) Describes the global evolution of trade between both markets, in addition to the analysis by countries of the Andean Community. Andean Community: Trade estimates and discrepancies in the oilseed chain. Andean Community: Trade estimates and discrepancies in the sugar chain. www.acs-aec.org /SG/InterScrt/Inventory/andes.htm

.:: SNE ::. Quito (Ecuador), 12 jul (SNE).- The Andean Community should look forward to a definitive integration process with the European Union, and that is why it can not be satisfied with the extension of the General System of Preferences, GSP, next October, and should work to get a commercial agreement. If the Andean block is going to be stronger, new doors for the integration process will be opened, Uribe added, because they are necessary for the development and well being of the countries. This is the speech from the EU to deny the agreement process with the Andean Community", said Uribe Vélez. www.presidencia.gov.co /Ingles/news/july/12/01122004.htm

EU@UN - Ministerial meeting between the Andean community and the EU At the meeting, the Andean Community and the European Union exchanged ideas and opinions on the political and economic situation in both regions, and on the state of and prospects for relations between them. In this respect, Ministers emphasized the efforts that are being made to study the current state of and prospects for economic and trade relations between the Andean Community and the European Union. The EU Ministers welcomed the efforts of several Andean States to establish national dialogues aiming at creating a broad political consensus and fostering social cohesion in their countries. www.europa-eu-un.org /articles/el/article_2186_el.htm

Globalization and Transnational Corporations - Commission on Human Rights One seminar was held for the Andean Community of Nations (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela) on "Development, Human Rights and the Andean Community of Nations". The seminar agreed on conclusions and recommendations, including a recommendation to the Andean Community of Nations to undertake an impact study of the effects of trade agreements on the right to food. The report of the High Commissioner on globalization and its impact on the full enjoyment of human rights (E/CN.4/2003/49, 20 December 2002) notes that two regional seminars were convened. www.hri.ca /fortherecord2003/vol1/globalizationchr.htm

Noticias The highlight of the meeting was the official launching of the joint assessment exercise of regional economic integration in the Andean Community as agreed by the respective Heads of State and Government at the Guadalajara Summit in May 2004. The Joint Committee established by the 1993 Framework Co-operation Agreement between the European Economic Community and the countries of the Andean Community (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela) held its eighth meeting on 21 January 2005 in Brussels. The Andean Community Delegation was chaired by Mr. www.comisioneuropea.org.ve /es/UltimasNoticias/conclusiones%20UE%20comunidad%20Andina.htm

The EU's relations with Latin America - Overview At the Guadalajara Summit of May 2004, the EU and the Andean Community of Nations agreed that an Association Agreement, which includes a free trade area, was a common objective. The EU has supported the process of Andean regional integration since the Cartagena Agreement established the Andean Community (originally named Andean Pact) in 1969. Regular political dialogue between the EU and the Andean region is conducted on the basis of the Rome declaration of 1996. europe.eu.int /comm/external_relations/la/index.htm

Andean Community --  Encyclopædia Britannica Includes a facility for community groups to create their own website, a UK search engine, and news about such topics as ethnic minorities, community development, housing and homelessness, and government funding of public projects. By the 1980s, many members of the scientific community believed that advances in health care had nearly eliminated the threat that plagues, which had ravaged populations in the past, would ever be seen again. The nations of Latin America share a common heritage that influences the nature of their relationships with other countries. www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9007428&query=virtual%20communities&ct=eb

Cooperation for Development, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean The Andean Community of Nations (CAN) and its constituent bodies maintain a high level of dialogue and cooperation with WIPO, in the area of intellectual property. The members of the Andean Community are: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is formed by Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. www.wipo.int /lac/en/cooperation/regional.htm

Narco News Covers the Andean Parliament's Historic Resolution Although the decisions by Parliament are not strictly binding, its political proposals go directly to the presidents of their countries during the meetings of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN). He said that a National Agreement must be promoted so that official diplomatic channels can make gestures to the international community with the goal of arriving at legalization formulas. To spur the discussion, the members of the Andean Parliament will seek to open the debate in the congresses of their respective countries (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru). www.narconews.com /andeanparliament1.html

VOA News - Venezuela's Chavez Named Chairman of Andean Community Andean leaders have appointed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez the new head of the Andean Community of Nations, a regional trade bloc. Chavez will serve as chairman of the Andean Community for a term of one year. At the start of the summit in Peru's capital, Lima, President Toledo called on Andean nations and others in Latin America to work together to fight against social problems like drugs and poverty. www.voanews.com /english/2005-07-19-voa58.cfm

3G Americas::Unifying the Americas through Wireless Technology The Association of Telecommunications Enterprises of the Andean Community (ASETA) is an international organization of cooperation, coordination, and advice with the purpose of assisting in the harmonious development of telecommunications and of contributing to the process of integration of the Andean Community of Nations. The working agreement between these two industry bodies will help to further strengthen the wireless evolution in the Andean community as ASETA assists in the harmonious development of telecommunications and in the process of integration of the Andean region countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Chris Pearson, President of 3G Americas, commented, "Collaborating with ASETA on areas of common interests to both our organizations' objectives benefits the wireless industry and customers in the Andean community. www.3gamericas.org /English/news_room/DisplayPressRelease.cfm?id=1373&s=ENG

NewsA.asp?LANGUAGE_ID=2&CATEGORY_ID=34&NEWS_ID=108538 Havana, July 13 (VNA) - Ecuadorian President Lucio Gutierrez has called on all the governments of Andean Community member nations to make more contributions to regional integration and strengthen cooperation within the bloc. Wagner emphasized that Andean Community countries should work out a plan to form an energy alliance and a sustainable development alliance, as well as a strategy to use information technology and communications effectively in the field of production, trade and culture so as to contribute strengthening cooperation and accelerating sub-regional integration. President Gutierrez made the remark at the 15th meeting of the Andean Presidential Council which opened in Ecuador's capital of Quito on Monday with attendance of presidents of all five CAN member countries. www.vnagency.com.vn /NewsA.asp?LANGUAGE_ID=2&CATEGORY_ID=34&NEWS_ID=108538

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