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June
Central Africa-EC EPA negotiations at ministerial level (tbc)
Signature of Pacific-EU interim EPA with Fiji and Papua New Guinea (tbc)
Pacific-EC EPA negotiations at technical and senior officials level (tbc)
1st Joint CARIFORUM-EC Council (tbc)
1-3 UN high-level conference on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development, New York
4 EPA-ESA Council Meeting, Victoria Falls
4-5 COMESA Business Forum, Victoria Falls
4-5 ECOWAS Trade & Investment Conference, Brussels
7-8 13th COMESA Summit of Heads of State and Government (expected to launch the COMESA customs union), Victoria Falls
8-12 West-Africa-EC EPA negotiations at technical, senior officials, and ministerial level, Brussels (tbc)
10-12 CARIFORUM Council of Ministers meeting (tbc)
10-12 World Economic Forum on Africa, Cape Town
11-12 G 8 Development Ministers meeting, Rome
19 Regional conference on EPA implementation, Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery
22-23 EAC-EC EPA negotiations at technical, senior officials and ministerial level, Brussels
23-24 OECD Forum 2009 “The Crisis and Beyond: For a Stronger, Cleaner, Fairer Economy”, Paris
24-27 2nd EAC Investment Conference, Nairobi
26-27 ACP Dialogue on non tariff barriers in EPAs. Follow-up from a consultation on pending negotiations in West Africa, Limbe, Cameroun
29-30 West Africa-EC Chief Negotiators meeting to initial the EPA, Abuja
29 Joint EU-SADC Economic and Social Committee meeting (tbc)
-1 July
30 Civil society dialogue meeting on EPAs, DG Trade, European Commission, Brussels
July
EAC-EC EPA negotiations at ministerial level (tbc)
Pacific-EC EPA negotiations at technical level (tbc)
3-4 2nd Pacific roundtable meeting on Aid for Trade, Honiara, Solomon Islands
6-7 Second Global Aid for Trade Review, WTO
Minimum Integration Programme, African Union Commission, May 2009, www.africa-union.org
Follow-up report on the implementation of recommendations from the Third Conference of African Ministers in Charge of Integration (COMAI III), Department of Economic Affairs, African Union Commission, May 2009, www.africa-union.org
Status of Integration in Africa (SIA), Second edition, African Union Commission, April 2009, www.africa-union.org
Addis Ababa Declaration on EPA Negotiations, African Union Conference of Ministers of Trade, 16-20 March 2009, Addis Ababa, www.africa-union.org
Draft Joint Roadmaps for the implementation of the 1st Action Plan (2008-2010) of the Joint Africa-EU Strategy, Endorsed by the 12th Africa-EU Ministerial Troika, 28 April 2009, http://africa-eu-partnership.org
Support to Africa Infrastructure in Times of Crisis, Joint Statement by the African Development Bank, European Commission, and World Bank, 5 May 2009, http://ec.europa.eu
Contributing to Sustainable Development: The role of Fair Trade and nongovernmental trade-related sustainability assurance schemes, Communication from the European Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, and the European Economic and Social Committee, 5 May 2009, http://trade.ec.europa.eu
EU draft reply to the ACP proposal for an ACP-EU Heads of States/Governments level consultations on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), Note from the ACP Working Party to the Permanent Representatives Committee and the Council of the European Union, 30 March 2009, http://register.consilium.europa.eu
‘Interim agreements’ under Article XXIV GATT, Lorand Bartels, World Trade Review (2009), 8:339-350, Cambridge University Press, http://journals.cambridge.org
Initialling, notifying, signing, ratifying and giving assent or the complexity of concluding EPAs, CONCORD Cotonou Working Group, Briefing paper, prepared for the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, 17th Session, Prague, 6-9 April 2009, www.concordeurope.org
L’Article XXIV du GATT et l’APE : Arguments juridiques pour soutenir l’offre ouest africaine d’accès au marché, Documents analytique d’Enda Tiers Monde, préparé au nom de la Plateforme des organisations de la société civile d’Afrique de l’ouest sur l’Accord de Cotonou (POSCAO-AC), Janvier 2009, http://syspro2.enda.sn/
Les Accords de partenariat économique en débat, Erik Rydberg, Marc Maes, Papa Assane Diop, Partie 2 dans: Quel avenir pour l’Accord de Cotonou? Quelle coopération entre l’Europe et le Sud?, Les cahiers de la coopération internationale N°11 - 05/2009, Centre national de coopération au développement (CNCD-11.11.11), www.cncd.be
Caribbean: Accelerating Trade Integration Policy Options for Sustained Growth, Job Creation, and Poverty Reduction, Report, World Bank, April 2009, http://siteresources.worldbank.org
Identifying the differences in Scope and Objectives of the CIC and the Investment Provisions in the EPA, Special RNM Update, Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery, 30 April 2009, www.crnm.org
Preferential Trade Agreements between the Monetary Community of Central Africa and the European Union: Stumbling or Building Blocks? A General Equilibrium, Guyslain K. Ngeleza, Andrew Muhammad, Discussion Paper No. 859, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), April 2009, www.ifpri.org
Executive brief on EU-West Africa EPA negotiations, Agritrade, CTA, March 2009, http://agritrade.cta.int
ECOWAS EPA: A ‘Funeral Oration’ to Regional Integration?, Ken Ukaoha, NANTS, April 2009, www.acp-eu-trade.org
Facilitating better trade outcomes for Pacific island countries, Briefing Paper 05, Pacific Institute of Public Policy, December 2008, www.pacificpolicy.org
Pacific lessons from the Economic Partnership Agreement, Briefing Paper 01, Pacific Institute of Public Policy, June 2008, www.pacificpolicy.org
Resources on food safety and agricultural health standards, Isolina Boto, Camilla La Peccerella, CTA, Reader prepared for Brussels Rural Development Briefing n° 11 “Meeting food safety standards: implications for ACP agricultural exports”, 11 May 2009, http://brusselsbriefings.files.wordpress.com
Changing the Aid for Trade Debate towards Content, Xavier Cirera, IDS In Focus Policy Briefing, March 2009, www.ids.ac.uk
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