Relevant Web Resources
| ACP -Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States |
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The Secretariat is responsible for the administrative management of the ACP Group. It assists the Group's decision-making and advisory organs in carrying out their work. The ACP Secretariat's headquarters is located in Brussels (Belgium). |
| Region(s): ACP, Africa, Caribbean, Pacific Topic(s): TRADE AGREEMENTS, Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), |
| ACP Embassies (CTA Brussels office website) |
| pdf version Email addresses of ACP embassies and institutions |
| Region(s): ACP Topic(s): |
| ACP missions and selected international organisations based in Geneva |
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| AU - African Union |
The African Union (abbreviated AU), founded in July 2002, is the successor organisation to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). Modelled after the European Union (but currently with powers closer to the Commonwealth of Nations), it aims to help promote democracy, human rights and development across Africa, especially by increasing foreign investment through the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) programme. Its first chairman was South African president Thabo Mbeki. |
| Region(s): Africa |
| AU - African Union, Economic Partnership Agreements |
Webpage of the AU providing background information on EPA negotiations, access to AU declarations and briefs on EPAs and to meeting documents. |
| Region(s): Africa Topic(s): Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) |
| CARICOM -Caribbean Community |
| Version anglais The CARICOM Secretariat is the principal administrative organ of the Community and is headed by a Secretary General who is the Chief Executive Officer of the Community. Mission Statement of the Secretariat: To provide dynamic leadership and service in partnership with Community Institutions and groups, toward the attainment of a viable, internationally competitive and sustainable Community, with improved quality of life for all. |
| Region(s): ACP, Caribbean Topic(s): TRADE AGREEMENTS |
| CEMAC / UEMOA - Association « Investir en Zone Franc » |
Créé en octobre 1998 suite à une décision des Ministres des Finances de la Zone franc CFA, le site Internet http://www.izf.net, propriété commune de la CEMAC et de l’UEMOA, est un puissant outil d’intégration économique régionale par la mise en ligne d’informations opérationnelles homogènes sur l’ensemble des pays de la Zone Franc, contrôlées « à la source » par les institutions régionales de la Zone Franc (UEMOA et CEMAC). |
| Region(s): Central Africa, West Africa Topic(s): Regional Integration and other Trade Agreements |
| CEMAC-Communauté économique et monétarie de l'Afrique Centrale |
| French version Regroupant 6 pays de l'Afrique Centrale (Cameroun, Centrafrique, Congo , Gabon, Guinée Équatoriale, Tchad), la CEMAC constitue un prolongement de l'Union monétaire (BEAC) et de l'Union Douanière et Économique de l'Afrique Centrale (UDEAC) dont elle prend le relais et qu'elle renforce. |
| Region(s): ACP, Central Africa Topic(s): TRADE AGREEMENTS |
| CEN-SAD - Community of Sahel-Saharan States |
The Community of Sahel-Saharan States CEN-SAD is a framework for Integration and Complementarity. It intends to work, together with the other regional economic communities and the Organization of African Unity, to strengthen peace, security and stability and achieve global economic and social development. |
| COMESA-Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa |
| CRNM-Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery |
| Region(s): ACP, Caribbean Topic(s): TRADE AGREEMENTS |
| EAC-East African Community |
| Region(s): ACP Topic(s): TRADE AGREEMENTS |
| ECCAS-Economic Community of Central African States |
| Region(s): ACP, Central Africa Topic(s): TRADE AGREEMENTS |
| ECOWAS -Economic Partnership Agreement |
Dedicated website by ECOWAS, providing background documents on an EPA in the West African region and information on the negotiations (currently available in French only) |
| Region(s): West Africa Topic(s): Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) |
| ECOWAS-Economic Community of West African States |
| Region(s): ACP, West Africa Topic(s): TRADE AGREEMENTS |
| IGAD - InterGovernmental Authority on Development |
The IGAD mission is to assist and complement the efforts of its Member States (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda) to achieve, through increased cooperation: Food Security and environmental protection, Promotion and maintenance of peace and security and humanitarian affairs, and Economic cooperation and integration. |
| Region(s): East and Southern Africa |
| IOC - Indian Ocean Commission |
| Region(s): ACP Topic(s): TRADE AGREEMENTS |
| NEPAD -The New Partnership for Africa's Development |
| Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) |
The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) came into being on June 18th 1981, when seven Eastern Caribbean countries signed a treaty agreeing to cooperate with each other and promote unity and solidarity among the Members. Its mission is to be a major regional institution contributing to the sustainable development of the OECS Member States. |
| Region(s): Caribbean Topic(s): TRADE AGREEMENTS, Regional Integration and other Trade Agreements |
| Pacific Islands Secretariat Forum |
| Region(s): Pacific Topic(s): TRADE AGREEMENTS |
| Pacific Regional Economic Integration Programme |
| only in English - with a special section on EPAs The Pacific Regional Economic Integration Programme (PACREIP) enhances the capacity of PACPS to support regional economic integration, preparation and conduct of negotiations of an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU), as well as the effective operation of the Pacific Islands Countries Trade Agreement (PICTA). |
| Region(s): Pacific Topic(s): TRADE AGREEMENTS, Regional Integration and other Trade Agreements |
| PITIC-The Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission Australia |
| Region(s): Pacific Topic(s): TRADE AGREEMENTS |
| SACU - Southern Africa Customs Union |
| disponible en anglais Members of SACU are Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland. |
| SADC-Southern African Development Community |
| Region(s): ACP, East and Southern Africa Topic(s): TRADE AGREEMENTS |
| UEMOA - Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (West African Monetary Union ) |
| French version |
| Region(s): ACP, West Africa Topic(s): TRADE AGREEMENTS |