ACP-EU Trade and Aid Co-operation

Post Lomé IV

The Lomé IV Convention will expire in the year 2000. At present it provides the framework for development cooperation between the European Union and 71 developing countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States.

After the publication by the European Commission of a Green Paper on future ACP-EU relations in November 1996, the Commonwealth Secretariat commissioned Professor Matthew McQueen, Dr Christine Phillips, Dr David Hallam and Professor Alan Swinbank, from the University of Reading, to prepare a report on post-Lomé-IV arrangements.

This report examines the various options under consideration, and suggests how a successor arrangement could best address the trade and development interests of the ACP countries.

A draft version of the report was presented at a workshop in Brussels on 27 and 28 May 1997, organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat and the General Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States. The authors have subsequently revised it, drawing on comments from the participants at the workshop, particularly the ACP Ambassadors and their representatives, and members of the Commonwealth Secretariat and ACP Secretariat.

This report is part of the Commonwealth Economic Paper Series, prepared by the Economic Affairs Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat. Its preparation has been funded by the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation(CFTC).

The authors have asserted their moral rights to be identified as authors of this work.
The views expressed in this document do not necessarily reflect the opinion or
policy of the Commonwealth Secretariat.

If you have any comments on this report or the summary please e-mail them to:
j.eyers@commonwealth.int

Useful links and contacts:

ACP Secretariat
www.oneworld.org/acpsec


European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), Maastricht
www.oneworld.org/ecdpm


Euforic (a brief on Lomé by European development NGOs)
www.oneworld.org/euforic


Europe Information Service (an ngo specialising in ACP-EU relations)
www.eis.be

EU-LDC Network, Netherlands Economic Institute,
email to memedovic@nei.nl

European Reaearch Office (NGOspecialising in ACP-EU relations)
email to bnero@village.uunet.be

Overseas Development Institute, London
www.oneworld.org/odi


North-South Institute, Ottawa
www.nsi-ins.ca

European Commission
www.europa.eu.int/comm/index.html


World Trade Organization
www.wto.org/