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December 6, 2020

Cotonou Agreement Cta

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The Cotonou Agreement has governed cooperation between the European Union and the countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) since 2000. Given the start of negotiations on the successor, the results so far appear to be mixed. EURACTIV France. But the organization announced on Monday that it would close by the end of the year, which it brought back to the end of the agreement, which offers its “legal and financial framework.” In June this year, the European Parliament stressed in a pre-negotiation that any future agreement must support sustainable agricultural development. The current agreement affects one in five people in the world and that, in Africa, 100 million young people will enter the labour market over the next ten years – the majority depend on agriculture for employment. As a result, decisions taken today could have serious consequences for their future livelihoods, their jobs, their food security. The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) is the only acp-EU joint institution to operate under the current agreement and has influenced, in more than 30 years, positive changes in the lives of millions of small farmers who are constantly working on the sustainable transformation of agriculture in ACP countries. Under the new agreement, the EU can be more selective and flexible in allocating and using its development resources. Endowments are based on an assessment of a country`s needs and performance and include the ability to regularly adjust financial resources. In practice, this means that more money can be paid to “good interpreters” and that the proportion of “bad interpreters” can be reduced. Perhaps the most radical amendment introduced by the Cotonou Agreement concerns trade cooperation. Since the first Lomé Convention in 1975, the EU has not granted reciprocal trade preferences to ACP countries.

However, under the Cotonou Agreement, this system has been replaced by the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), a new regime that came into force in 2008. The new regime provides for reciprocal trade agreements, which means that not only does the EU grant duty-free access to its ACP export markets, but also that ACP countries grant duty-free access to their own markets for EU exports. “The CTA was supposed to end at the end of the Cotonou agreement, but we weren`t sure what the future would be – whether or not the new agreement would include the CTA,” Director Michael Hailu, whose second five-year term ends on February 29, told Devex. “At first, of course, I would have liked the CTA to continue in the future, but it`s not my fault, it`s at the level of political level negotiations. Once the decision has been made to end the CTA… [I tried to see that] the investments that were made in the construction of CTA are not lost, the legacy is not lost. Its future beyond the end of the Cotonou agreement, which expires this year, is not clear, however, while a succession agreement is being negotiated.

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