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EU-CAN

The European Union and the Andean Community (Comunidad Andina de Naciones or CAN) have been working towards a bilateral trade and investment pact since 1993, when they first signed a Framework Cooperation Agreement. In Rome in 2003, ten years later, they signed a joint commitment to formally enter into an Association Agreement, “including a Free Trade Agreement (FTA).” This was reaffirmed at the highest political level in Guadalajara in 2004. In May 2006, both sides agreed to initiate the negotiating process as soon as possible. The Andean Community is composed of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. (Venezuela withdrew in 2006.)

In April 2007, the EU adopted its negotiating mandate for the process. The draft is available

Minister: Peru set to sign EU free trade accord in May
7-Jan-2010     Dow Jones
Peru's free trade agreement with the European Union should be signed in Madrid in May, Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde said Thursday.
Peru seeks to close free trade agreement with EU by Jan. 2010
19-Dec-2009     LIP
"I think negotiations with the European Union will be completed by the end of January 2010," pointed out the Peruvian trade minister, who added that only two or three issues are still yet to solve by both part's ministers.
Colombia’s dubious strategy to push through an FTA with the European Union
14-Dec-2009     ITUC
The ITUC is appalled at the strategy used by the Colombian government to discredit the ITUC Colombian affiliates – CUT, CGT and CTC – and the National Trade Union School by sending incendiary information from a completely unrepresentative trade union to European Union Members of Parliament.
Trade unionists ask EU not to sign FTA with Colombia
10-Dec-2009     Colombia Reports
Colombian trade unionists on Wednesday asked the EU not to sign an FTA with Colombia due to the human rights violations they believe to have been committed by the Uribe government.
Human rights issues could thwart Colombia-EU FTA: France
9-Nov-2009    
Human rights issues could thwart commercial agreements between Colombia and the EU, said the deputy leader of the French National Assembly on Monday.
Close attention to final round of Peru-EU FTA required
2-Oct-2009     La Primera
The Peruvian Network for a Just Globalization says that both public opinion, as well as members of Congress, have to make sure that no conditions that restrict access to medicines for thousands of Peruvians are included in the text of the EU-Peru trade agreement.
Correa says EU must cut banana levy for trade talks to progress
19-Jul-2009     Bloomberg
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said his country won’t keep negotiating a commercial agreement with the European Union until the trade bloc complies with World Trade orders to cut duties on Ecuadorean bananas.
The throes of the third round of negotiations of the FTA of Colombia & Peru with the EU
8-Jul-2009     Anarkismo.net
Analysis of the third round of egotiations of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and the Andean countries (Ecuador, Peru and Colombia).
IV Round of Colombia-EU FTA negotiations extended
19-Jun-2009     Semana
The IV negotiating round between Colombia, Perú, Ecuador and the EU will conclude today, Friday. Important topics include bananas, sugar and intellectual property, which have faced some obstacles during the discussion.
Correa backpedals from EU trade agreement
5-Jun-2009     LatinAmerican Press
President says agreement threatens social advances