Nov 16
Prepared for the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM), November 2006
Development-enhancing measures negotiated as part of the Cariforum-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) should be in support of an agreed regional development strategy. Specific measures may include assistance for technical work on common policy regimes and support measures for growth industries, enhanced market access within the EU for these industries, space for development policies to foster them, and contributions tothe Regional Development Fund. There is need for close alignment between the the EPA negotiations and Caricom’s development strategies and plans [...]
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Nov 16
Note prepared for the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM), Novermber 16, 2006
It is axiomatic that development enhancing measures for CARIFORUM should take, as their frame of reference, a development strategy for the group. That is, these measures should be in support of an agreed regional development strategy. Such a strategy does not exist for CARIFORUM as a whole. A draft strategy has been prepared for CARICOM to guide the further implementation of the CSME . Although it has not yet received political approval, it has gone through several iterations involving a large number of stakeholders and chaired by the Prime Minister with responsibility for the CSME. We will, therefore, use this as the frame of reference...
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