and entered into force on 1 January 1971
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Reference code(s): ACP 02YA2
Date(s): 16/07/1964-08/06/1977
Level of description: SUB-FONDS
Extent of the unit of description: 20 archive box, 2 linear metres
Name of creator(s):
– Parliamentary Conference of the Association (period covered by the Yaoundé II Convention and the Arusha Convention)
– Joint Committee – 1971 to Joint Committee – 1975
– Bureau of the Parliamentary Conference of the Association
Historical note
The second Yaoundé Convention, which was signed on 29 July 1969 and entered into force on 1 January 1971, was based on its predecessor, the first Yaoundé Convention. The institutions of the Association (the Association Council, the Court of Arbitration of the Association and the Parliamentary Conference of the Association, see Article 41 of the 1969 Convention) were retained and the second Convention did not introduce any fundamental changes with regard to the structure of the association.
The signatory countries to the second convention and the Member States were the same as for the first convention124.
The second Convention of Association between the European Economic Community and the African States and Madagascar associated with the Community covers trade (Title I), financial and technical co-operation (Title II), the right of establishment, services, payments and capital (Title III), the institutions of the association (Title IV) and general and final provisions (Title V).
It should be noted that in 1972, the EEC-AASM Association received its first and only request for accession; it was made by Mauritius pursuant to Article 60 of the Convention:
'1. The Association Council shall be informed of any request by a State for membership of, or association with, the Community.
2. Any request for association with the Community by a State whose economic structure and production are comparable with those of the Associated States, and which, after examination by the Community, has been referred by the latter to the Association Council, shall be the subject of consultations within the Association Council.
3. An Agreement of Association between the Community and a State covered by paragraph 2 may provide for the accession of that State to this Convention. That State shall then enjoy the same rights and be subject to the same obligations as the Associated States. However, the Agreement which associates that State with the Community may determine the date on which certain of these rights and obligations shall become applicable to it.
Such accession shall not adversely affect the benefits accruing to the Associated States signatories to this Convention from the provisions on financial and technical cooperation.’
The accession of Mauritius was formalised by an association agreement signed on 12 May 1972, which increased the number of States associated with the Community to 19.
The first enlargement of the European Community entered into force on 1 April 1973 with the accession of the United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark. This was a pivotal moment in the policy of association. Indeed, it became necessary to offer developing countries with economic and trade- related ties to the United Kingdom within the British Commonwealth the same type of relationship which the Community afforded to its associated African States, Madagascar and Mauritius.
124 ] See ACP 01 YA1– Historical note
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Protocol 22 annexed to the Acts of Accession of the three new Member States offered the 20 countries which were members of the Commonwealth located in Africa125 and the Pacific Ocean126 the
possibility of negotiating with the European Community on the ordering of future relations between them. However, as the accession of the new Member States (United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark) occurred two years before the expiry of Yaoundé II, the Act of Accession maintained the status quo in respect of relations between the Community and the Associated and ‘associable’ States127, until the
expiry of Yaoundé II.
Article 61 of the Yaoundé II Convention states that ‘This Convention is concluded for a period of five years from the date of its entry into force and shall expire on 31 January 1975 at the latest’.
STRUCTURE AND CONTENT
Structure of the sub-fonds
Sub-fonds ACP 02YA2 comprises documents concerning the activities of the European Parliament in the field of cooperation with the Associated African States and Madagascar (AASM) from 1972 during the period covered by the second Yaoundé Convention (1969-1975).
The five series comprising this sub-fonds cast light on how cooperation was put into practice by the Convention’s various institutions and their respective activities. The sub-fonds is structured as follows:
– ACP 02YA2 00CP: Meetings of the Parliamentary Conference of the Association – ACP 02YA2 05PP: Meetings of the Joint Permanent Committee
– ACP 02YA2 10RP: Reports of the Joint Permanent Committee
– ACP 02YA2 15BU: Meetings of the Bureau of the Parliamentary Conference of the Association – ACP 02YA2 30COR: Correspondence exchanged during the period covered by the Yaoundé II
Convention
Content of the series
The Parliamentary Conference of the Association is one of the institutions of the association128.
Series ACP 02YA2 00CP comprises the documents produced or distributed as part of the meetings of the Parliamentary Conference of the Association during the period covered by the Yaoundé II Convention.
Article 52 of the second Yaoundé Convention also provides that ‘The Parliamentary Conference shall be prepared by a Joint Committee set up on a basis of parity’. The work of that Committee can be seen from series ACP 02YA2 05PP and 10RP, which relate to the Committee’s meetings and reports respectively.
Series ACP 02YA2 15BU comprises documents relating to the meetings of the Bureau of the Parliamentary Conference of the Association.
Finally, a substantial body of correspondence between the signatories to the second Yaoundé Convention of Association built up. That correspondence is amalgamated in series ACP 02YA2 30COR.
System of arrangement
125 ] Botswana, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia), the Caribbean (Barbados, Guyana, Trinity and Tobago).
126 ] Fiji, Western Samoa, Tonga
127 ] Articles 109 and 115 of the Act of Accession 128 ] Article 41 of the Yaoundé II Convention of Association
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Arrangement
The five series in sub-fonds ACP 02YA2, relating to the period covered by the second Yaoundé Convention of Association with the AASM are arranged by institution, procedure and document type. The first four series relate to three institutions established under the Yaoundé Convention:
– the Parliamentary Conference of the Association (ACP 02YA2 00CP), – the Joint Permanent Committee (ACP 02YA2 05PP et 10RP)
– the Bureau of the Parliamentary Conference of the Association (ACP 02YA2 15BU).
Although series ACP 02YA2 05PP and ACP 02YA2 10RP both relate to the Joint Permanent Committee, they are different because they concern different procedures, namely meetings in the one case and Parliamentary reports in the other.
Series ACP 01YA2 30COR is distinguished by the nature of the documents it contains: correspondence.
Other materials
– Second Convention of Association between the European Economic Community and the African States and Madagascar associated with the Community, which was signed at Yaoundé, on 29 July 1969 and entered into force on 1 January 1971.
– Internal Financial Regulations of the Parliamentary Conference129.
Notes
It should be noted that sub-fonds ACP 02YA2 contains neither the Conference Rules of Procedure nor the Financial Regulation, in contrast to previous sub-fonds ACP 00CAA and ACP 01YA1.
However, in view of the fact that the second Yaoundé Convention renews Yaoundé I and that the documents refer to the 1965 rules and regulations, i.e. those in use under Yaoundé I, it can only be assumed that the Rules of Procedure and the Financial Regulation under Yaoundé II are the same as those for Yaoundé I.
129 ] OJ 220 of 24 December 1965, p. 3233