Download or read book The Cotonou Agreement written by Commonwealth Secretariat. Economic Affairs Division and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2004 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ACP-EU Partnership agreement commonly referred to as the Cotonou Agreement brings together over 100 countries in an integrated trade, development assistance and political co-operation relationship. The agreement represents one of the most comprehensive partnership agreement in the world, concluded between groups of developing countries on the one hand and developed countries on the other. The agreement consists of a basic framework of 100 articles supplemented by Annexes, Protocols, annexes to protocols, single and joint declarations integral to the legal text. This wealth of information makes the agreement both complex and difficult to follow. It is this complexity which has given rise to the production of this User's Guide to the Cotonou Agreement. By way of a simple question and answer format, the guide simplifies the agreement making it more accessible to end users, who include, amongst others, policy-makers, the private sector and other stakeholders, thereby making greater use of resources and enhancing the opportunities available under the agreement.
Download or read book The Cotonou Agreement written by Boniface Macharia Kinyanjui and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2001-06-06 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: This masters thesis discusses the recently concluded treaty between the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries on the one hand and the European Union (EU) on the other. This Agreement having signed in Cotonou, Benin, is known as the Cotonou Agreement. The Cotonou Agreement is the latest in a series of conventions between the two parties that have their genesis in the late 1950s. The primary goal of this work was to find out to what extent, if at all, the newly signed Agreement is likely to contribute to the economic renaissance of the ACP countries. In so doing it traces development of the ACP-EU conventions right from their very beginning. The performance of the relationship to date is examined with a view to determining whether the lessons learnt therefrom have been incorporated in the new Agreement. There is a detailed analysis of the trade and aid provisions of the Cotonou Agreement. Apart from the economic provisions, other major provisions and developments of the ACP-EU Conventions are discussed with a view to providing a wholesome picture. Inhaltsverzeichnis:Table of Contents: Abbreviationsiv Table oftreatiesvi Table ofcasesviii 1.Introduction1 2.Historical antecedents of the Cotonou Agreement3 2.1The early associational arrangements3 2.1.1Overseas Countries and Territories3 2.1.2Yaounde I6 2.1.3Yaounde II7 2.1.4The Lagos and Arusha Conventions8 2.2The Lome Conventions9 2.2.1Lome I9 2.2.2Lome II12 2.2.3Lome III13 2.2.4Lome IV14 2.2.5RevisedLome IV16 2.3Evaluation of the economic impact of the Lome Conventions to date19 2.3.1Introduction20 2.3.2Extra Lome Convention constraints22 2.3.3Lome Convention constraints23 3.The GreenPaper27 4.The Cotonou Agreement29 4.1Introduction29 4.2The novel commercial framework32 4.2.1Trade Preferences32 4.2.1.1Non-reciprocal trade preferences33 4.2.1.2Conformity with WTO rules37 4.2.2New trade agreements43 4.2.3Regional integration46 4.2.4Rules of origin50 4.2.5The commodity protocols52 4.2.6Trade in services and trade related areas53 4.3Financial co-operation55 4.3.1Development finance co-operation55 4.3.2STABEX / SYSMIN57 4.3.3ACP countries debt59 4.3.4Private sector support60 5.Conclusion62 Bibliography66
Download or read book The Cotonou Agreement and Its Implications for the Regional Trade Agenda in Eastern and Southern Africa written by Manuel De la Rocha and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subregional trade arrangements (RTAs) in Eastern and Southern Africa have proliferated in the past 10 to 15 years. The small size of most of the countries in the region, some of which are landlocked, and the security needs in the post independence period largely explain the rapid expansion. These arrangements are characterized by multiple and overlapping memberships, complex structures, and eventually, conflicting and confusing commitments. The influence of RTAs has been limited to assisting the region in increasing trade, attracting foreign direct investment, enhancing growth, and achieving convergence among member countries. But despite their limitations, RTAs have the potential, if properly designed and effectively implemented, to be an important instrument in integrating member countries into global markets. In 1998 most of the Southern African countries, as members of the Africa Caribbean Pacific group (ACP), signed the Cotonou Agreement with the European Union, which includes the negotiation of economic partnership agreements (EPAs) between the EU and the ACP. The Cotonou Agreement explicitly leaves to the ACP countries to decide the level and procedures of the EPA trade negotiations, taking into account the regional integration process. This raises the question of how to decide on the groupings in the context of conflicting regional trade agendas. The author argues that the Cotonou Agreement and EPA negotiations could become the external driving force that will push the regional organizations to rationalize and harmonize their regional trade arrangements, thus strengthening the integration process and economies of the region, and assisting the Eastern and Southern Africa region in becoming a more active partner in the global economy.
Download or read book Implications of the Cotonou Agreement for sustainable development in the ACP Countries and beyond written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the end of Lomé IV came into sight, the European Commission produced a series of documents reviewing the results, which were modest.2 These reports emphasized the need for a new agreement that would be more focussed on trade and more readily compatible with the requirements of the trade regime that had been revitalized in 1994 by conclusion of the Uruguay Round (UR) and the creation of the Worl [...] Indeed, the Commission, the most important executive body of the EU, is technically but the "Commission of the European Community." In light of this confusion, it has become accepted practice to refer to the European Union without making any distinctions and to identify the Commission as the European Commission. [...] In practice, the contribution of foreign direct investment to the (sustainable) development objectives of a country will depend more on the specific charac- 3 Implications of the Cotonou Agreement for Sustainable Development in the ACP Countries and Beyond teristics of that investment, the performance of investors as economic citizens, and the capabilities of host country governance than on the in [...] These texts may be revised, reviewed and/or amended by the Council of Ministers on the basis of a rec- ommendation from the ACP-EC Development Finance Cooperation Committee." 8 Implications of the Cotonou Agreement for Sustainable Development in the ACP Countries and Beyond ACP States in Brussels, which is not, however, a creation of the ACP itself but rather an expression of the importance of the [...] In addition to setting the framework for the EPA negotiations, the CPA pro- vides for cooperation between the partners in the WTO and in particular in "trade-related areas." The WTO cooperation is couched in fairly general lan- guage but achieved a measure of success in the process leading up to the adop- tion of the Doha agenda.
Download or read book The Cotonou Treaty Establishing the EU ACP Partnership written by Otieno-Odek and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The European Union and the Developing Countries written by Olufemi Babarinde and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors from different backgrounds (including law, political science and economics) analyze the forces that gave rise to the new agreement as well as the negotiating process of the new agreement, and the negotiations that are taking place to produce the planned Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) that are to replace the existing non-reciprocal trade preferences that are incompatible with WTO law.
Download or read book Understanding of Development Co operation Under the Cotonou Agreement written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cotonou Partnership Agreement written by Geert Laporte and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cotonou Partnership Agreement Elektronisk Resurs written by Geert Laporte and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trade Poverty and The Environment written by Adrian Flint and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2000 the European Union and its 78 African-Caribbean-Pacific partners signed the Cotonou Agreement, heralding a new era in developmental politics. This comprehensive book draws attention to the limitations in the EU's approach to implementing pro-poor, environmentally sustainable development amongst its African-Caribbean-Pacific partners.
Download or read book Did you say free trade written by Jacques Berthelot and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The headlong rush of the European Union (EU) in Free Trade Agreements reaches the paroxysm of absurdity when it imposes them on West Africa, whose per capita GDP is 21 times lower than its own. This Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) would make West Africa lose 76% of its customs revenue on its imports from the EU and lead to a sharp rise in unemployment due to the loss of competitiveness of its companies including the informal sectors.The latter will be worsened by the premature signing, with support from the EU, of the Continental Free Trade Area by 13 of 16 West African States, all this based on a number of untruths from the European Commission, as identified in this book.
Download or read book Implications of the Cotonou Agreement for Sustainable Development in the ACP Countries and Beyond written by Konrad von Moltke and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the end of Lomé IV came into sight, the European Commission produced a series of documents reviewing the results, which were modest.2 These reports emphasized the need for a new agreement that would be more focussed on trade and more readily compatible with the requirements of the trade regime that had been revitalized in 1994 by conclusion of the Uruguay Round (UR) and the creation of the Worl [...] Indeed, the Commission, the most important executive body of the EU, is technically but the "Commission of the European Community." In light of this confusion, it has become accepted practice to refer to the European Union without making any distinctions and to identify the Commission as the European Commission. [...] In practice, the contribution of foreign direct investment to the (sustainable) development objectives of a country will depend more on the specific charac- 3 Implications of the Cotonou Agreement for Sustainable Development in the ACP Countries and Beyond teristics of that investment, the performance of investors as economic citizens, and the capabilities of host country governance than on the in [...] These texts may be revised, reviewed and/or amended by the Council of Ministers on the basis of a rec- ommendation from the ACP-EC Development Finance Cooperation Committee." 8 Implications of the Cotonou Agreement for Sustainable Development in the ACP Countries and Beyond ACP States in Brussels, which is not, however, a creation of the ACP itself but rather an expression of the importance of the [...] In addition to setting the framework for the EPA negotiations, the CPA pro- vides for cooperation between the partners in the WTO and in particular in "trade-related areas." The WTO cooperation is couched in fairly general lan- guage but achieved a measure of success in the process leading up to the adop- tion of the Doha agenda.
Download or read book Post Cotonou and the EU African Relationship written by Gauthier Schefer and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cotonou Partnership Agreement, signed in 2000 and set to expire in 2020, is allegedly the most advanced collaboration between the EU and some of the lowest-income countries in the world. In practice, however, its achievements are meagre and contested. Nonetheless, the EU and ACP countries officially launched in 2018 the negotiation of the post-Cotonou agreement, which aims to deepen the Cotonou’s acquis. While environmental concerns in the EU-Africa relation often fall under the radar of scientific literature, this paper aims to show how the prism of environmental and climate mainstreaming helps in explaining the declining relevance of the post-Cotonou framework. Even though a rhetoric of a ‘deepened partnership’ became the leitmotiv of post-Cotonou, ‘far reaching’ environmental provisions in the future agreement are impeded by structural deficiencies. This reflects in post-Cotonou’s current draft, trying hard to push environmental ambitions but maintaining a ‘coherence’ between regional protocols that is detrimental to any real environmental mainstreaming progresses. A ‘greener’ post-Cotonou will be achieved only if references to other external policies are made due to the progressive ‘externalisation’ of Cotonou’s original pillars: political dialogue, trade and development cooperation into other agreements reducing therefore post-Cotonou’s added-value to a minimal.
Download or read book Realizing the Right to Development written by United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development. It contains a collection of analytical studies of various aspects of the right to development, which include the rule of law and good governance, aid, trade, debt, technology transfer, intellectual property, access to medicines and climate change in the context of an enabling environment at the local, regional and international levels. It also explores the issues of poverty, women and indigenous peoples within the theme of social justice and equity. The book considers the strides that have been made over the years in measuring progress in implementing the right to development and possible ways forward to make the right to development a reality for all in an increasingly fragile, interdependent and ever-changing world.
Download or read book The New ACP EU COTONOU Agreement written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New ACP EU COTONOU Agreement The financial and technical co operation provisions of the new agreement written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New ACP EU COTONOU Agreement Non state actors and the new ACP EU partnership agreement written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
