The Cotonou Agreement
A stimulus to African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Economic Renaissance
- Art: Diplomarbeit
- Autor: Boniface Macharia Kinyanjui
- Abgabedatum: Mai 2001
- Umfang: 88 Seiten
- Dateigröße: 558,6 KB
- Note: 2,0
- Institution / Hochschule: Universität Bremen Deutschland
- ISBN (eBook): 978-3-8324-4193-7
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ISBN (Paperback) :
978-3-8324-4193-7 P - ISBN (CD) :978-3-8324-4193-7 CD
- Sprache: Englisch
- Prämierung:
- Arbeit zitieren: Kinyanjui, Boniface Macharia Mai 2001: The Cotonou Agreement, Hamburg: Diplomica Verlag
- Schlagworte: Pacific Countries, ACP-EU Convention, Lome Convention, European Union, African Countries
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Diplomarbeit von Boniface Macharia Kinyanjui
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.
Table of Contents:
| Abbreviations | iv | |
| Table oftreaties | vi | |
| Table ofcases | viii | |
| 1. | Introduction | 1 |
| 2. | Historical antecedents of the Cotonou Agreement | 3 |
| 2.1 | The early associational arrangements | 3 |
| 2.1.1 | Overseas Countries and Territories | 3 |
| 2.1.2 | Yaounde I | 6 |
| 2.1.3 | Yaounde II | 7 |
| 2.1.4 | The Lagos and Arusha Conventions | 8 |
| 2.2 | The Lome Conventions | 9 |
| 2.2.1 | Lome I | 9 |
| 2.2.2 | Lome II | 12 |
| 2.2.3 | Lome III | 13 |
| 2.2.4 | Lome IV | 14 |
| 2.2.5 | RevisedLome IV | 16 |
| 2.3 | Evaluation of the economic impact of the Lome Conventions to date | 19 |
| 2.3.1 | Introduction | 20 |
| 2.3.2 | Extra Lome Convention constraints | 22 |
| 2.3.3 | Lome Convention constraints | 23 |
| 3. | The GreenPaper | 27 |
| 4. | The Cotonou Agreement | 29 |
| 4.1 | Introduction | 29 |
| 4.2 | The novel commercial framework | 32 |
| 4.2.1 | Trade Preferences | 32 |
| 4.2.1.1 | Non-reciprocal trade preferences | 33 |
| 4.2.1.2 | Conformity with WTO rules | 37 |
| 4.2.2 | New trade agreements | 43 |
| 4.2.3 | Regional integration | 46 |
| 4.2.4 | Rules of origin | 50 |
| 4.2.5 | The commodity protocols | 52 |
| 4.2.6 | Trade in services and trade related areas | 53 |
| 4.3 | Financial co-operation | 55 |
| 4.3.1 | Development finance co-operation | 55 |
| 4.3.2 | STABEX / SYSMIN | 57 |
| 4.3.3 | ACP countries’debt | 59 |
| 4.3.4 | Private sector support | 60 |
| 5. | Conclusion | 62 |
| Bibliography | 66 |
Before this task is embarked on, however, an overview of the other key provisions that were either retained from previous Conventions or introduced in the Cotonou Agreement is in order. The political dimension of the ACP-EU Conventions that demands observance of human rights, democracy and the rule of law, in the enhanced form introduced at the midterm review of Lome IV, was retained.252 Good governance was fortified by making it a “fundamental element” instead of merely being “a particular aim” of the ACP-EU cooperation.253 Significantly in this regard, “serious cases of corruption” which constitute a violation of good governance shall in cases where the EU is a major financier of a [...]
4.1 INTRODUCTION The signing of the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement on 23rd June 2000 in Cotonou, Benin, was marked, as has been the trend since Lome I, with increased membership this time only on the part of ACP countries which now had 77 members whereas the EU side remained with 15 members.243 Unlike all the conventions before it, it was concluded for a period of twenty years with the possibility of five yearly revisions.244 The financial protocols as was the case in Lome IV are to be concluded for five year periods.245 The new Agreement means that the relations between the ACP and the EU remain on a contractual footing and hence the rights and duties arising therefrom are justiciable as has been demonstrated by litigation in the past in cases such as Germany v Council [...]
Commission stated that the Green Paper was not its negotiating mandate for a successor regime to the Lome Conventions234, some of the positions taken in the Green Paper, such as revitalising the political dimension,235 differentiation of trade arrangements among the ACP countries236 and strengthening of the position of new actors 237, were eventually enshrined in the Cotonou Agreement. Other options such as breaking up the ACP group since it is “neither a political nor economic entity” were left out.238 In the debate that was sparked off by the Green Paper, there are those who felt that the ideas advanced by the Green Paper were inimical to the developmental aspirations of the ACP countries.239 [...]
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Arbeit zitieren:
Kinyanjui, Boniface Macharia Mai 2001: The Cotonou Agreement, Hamburg: Diplomica Verlag
Schlagworte:
Pacific Countries, ACP-EU Convention, Lome Convention, European Union, African Countries