Sep 20
Note prepared for the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM), September 20, 2004
The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and the European Community (EC) have agreed that the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) to be negotiated should serve the objective, as is also established in the current Cotonou Agreement, of sustainable development; that, consistent with that objective, they should be “centered on reducing and eventually eradicating poverty, and the gradual integration of ACP countries into the world economy.” In the EC’s EPA Directives, it is recognized that EPAs should be above all “an instrument for development.”…
