From Dgroups: Development Through Dialogue,  (22/01/08) 

This agreement has not yet been notified to the WTO, despite the fact that EU preferences are being granted under the EPA Regulation. And yet the WTO Transparency Decision provides that such preferences may only be granted once an agreement is notified to the WTO. Clearly, this is not in compliance with this Decision. What is also striking, I think, is how this relaxed attitude to WTO obligations, now that there is an initialled text, compares to the frenetic pressure to initial agreements before 31 December 2007 (pressure also reflected in the EPA Regulation). It does tend to make that pressure look a little manufactured…

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