ISDS Case Map
EPAs
Economic Partnership Agreements between the EU and ACP countries (under the Cotonou Agreement)
The EU’s Economic Partnership Agreements with sub-Saharan countries inked a few years ago are not getting off the ground as African governments don’t like their EU-inspired rules on raw materials policies.
We need to reconstruct a law that takes into account the particularities of the agricultures that we want to preserve on the model of cultural exception.
Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) countries say they are yet to “meaningfully reap the potential benefits” of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) signed with Europe in 2008.
New trade stemming from the EPA will not be very extensive, and any poverty reduction effects will also likely be quite small.
The benefits of the EPA between the EU and WA’s countries appear small, if not negative for West African countries.
West Africa and the European Union continue to prepare for the implementation of the Economic Partnership Agreement -- pending its signature by all member states -- by putting together the necessary texts for the institutional bodies and instruments envisaged under the EPA, in order that it becomes operational immediately upon entering into force.
Namibia’s National Assembly Speaker Peter Katjavivi said the Southern Africa country is now set to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union.
The full implementation of EPA, may shift consumption away from local products, to EU goods.
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House of Representatives call for caution in the implementation of the EPA between EU and Nigeria.
