Date(s): 23 April 1976 to 24 November 1980
Level of description: SERIES
Extent of the unit of description: 7 archive box, 70 cm
Name of creator(s): From the Joint Committee of 1976 to the Joint Committee of 1980 (COPA.1976, COPA.1977, COPA.1978, COPA.1979 and COPA.1980)
STRUCTURE AND CONTENT
Series ACP 03LO1 10RP includes 10 files relating to reports drawn up by the Joint Committee at meetings held during the period covered by the first Lomé Convention between the EEC and the ACP States, which was signed on 28 February 1975 and entered into force on 1 April 1976.
At its meetings, the Joint Committee, which was responsible for ensuring the continuity of the parliamentary work of the Association, for preparing the work of the Consultative Assembly and for reviewing the annual report of the Council of Ministers, drafted reports on various specific issues167.
Those reports included motions for resolutions for submission to the Consultative Assembly. The series consists of draft parliamentary reports, parliamentary reports, amendments, corrigenda, reference material, motions for resolutions and adopted texts (also called resolutions).
Accordingly, the reports drawn up by the Committee addressed the following points: 1. Review of the annual report of the Council of Ministers.
Article 74(5) of the 1975 Lomé Convention lays down that ‘The Council of Ministers shall publish an annual report’. This report was reviewed by the Joint Committee. ‘After a general discussion, the Assembly shall take a vote on the Committee’s findings, which shall be submitted in the form of a motion for a resolution’ (Article 19 of the 1976 Rules of Procedure of the Consultative Assembly). Numerous issues were addressed during the discussion of the annual report:
– the disappointing results of trade cooperation: trade arrangements, trade promotion, the problem of sugar and of Community participation in international agreements on commodities;
– the results of Stabex (System of Stabilisation of Export Earnings): statistical assessment, appraisal, the problem of the allocation of any remaining balances and reimbursements;
– the difficulties encountered in industrial cooperation: the need to step up cooperation; – regional cooperation: too limited in scope;
– special measures to help the least-developed, landlocked and island countries; – the role of NGOs;
– the importance of training;
– rural development and food security: implementation of agricultural projects, food security and fisheries;
– the essential role of financial and technical cooperation and the importance of procedures: the distribution of resources, and problems caused by delays in the implementation of financial and technical cooperation.
2. Problems related to the implementation of the Lomé Convention and the amendments to be made thereto:
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– problems and difficulties that have arisen in connection with the implementation of the Lomé Convention (trade aspects) (ACP 03LO1 10RP RLO1-11/79);
– possible amendments to be made to the Rules of Procedure of the ACP-EEC Consultative Assembly (ACP 03LO1 10RP RLO1-12/79);
– new provisions of the Lomé II Convention and possible amendments to the Rules of Procedure of the Consultative Assembly (ACP 03LO1 10RP RLO1-17/80);
– problems currently arising from the implementation of the Lomé Convention (ACP 03LO1 10RP RLO1-X01/76);
– negotiation of the new Lomé Convention (ACP 03LO1 10RP RLO1-X01/79). 3. More specific issues:
– possibilities for closer cooperation with representatives of economic and social interest groups in the ACP and EEC countries (ACP 03LO1 10RP RLO1-09/78);
– respect and protection of the rights of migrant workers, students and trainees from the EEC Member States or the ACP States (ACP 03LO1 10RP RLO1-18/80).
System of arrangement
Series ACP 03LO1 10RP is structured chronologically and according to the number of the parliamentary report in the file (RLO1-09/78, RLO1-10/78, RLO1-11/79, etc.).
Files with no parliamentary reports are given an ‘X’ number and are arranged chronologically at the end of the series.
The final two files in the series, dealing with problems currently arising from the implementation of the Lomé Convention (ACP 03LO1 10RP RLO1-X01/76) and the negotiation of the new Lomé Convention (ACP 03LO1 10RP RLO1-X01/79), have been given an ‘X’ number.
This is because they include no parliamentary reports but only draft parliamentary reports, since the procedure was not completed.
LIST OF FILES
Reference code Title
RLO1-06/77 Annual Report of the ACP-EEC Council of Ministers and on the problems currently arising from the implementation of the Lomé Convention
(9) – 13/5/1977 – 11/11/1977
RLO1-09/78 Possibilities for closer cooperation with representatives of economic and social interest groups in the ACP and EEC countries
(5) – 24/8/1978 – 19/1/1979
RLO1-10/78 Annual Report of the ACP-EEC Council of Ministers and on the present state of the Lomé Convention
(16) – 11/4/1978 – 19/1/1979
RLO1-11/79 Problems and difficulties that have arisen in connection with the implementation of the Lomé Convention (trade aspects)
(12) – 4/4/1978 – 27/12/1979
RLO1-12/79 [Amendments that might be made to the Rules of Procedure of the ACP-EEC Consultative Assembly]
(3) – 17/1/1979 – 20/4/1979
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RLO1-17/80 New institutional provisions of the Lomé II Convention and amendments that might be made to the Rules of Procedure of the ACP-EEC Consultative Assembly
(7) – 15/1/1979 – 24/11/1980
RLO1-18/80 Respect for and protection of the rights of migrant workers, students and trainees from the EEC Member States or the ACP States
(10) – 15/1/1979 – 24/11/1980
RLO1-19/80 Annual Report of the ACP-EEC Council of Ministers (1 April 1976 to 29 February 1980)
(14) – 20/9/1979 – 24/11/1980 RLO1-X01/76 Problems currently arising from the implementation of the Lomé Convention
(5) – 23/4/1976 – 22/11/1976
RLO1-X01/79 [Negotiation of the new Lomé Convention]
(1) – 1/6/1979