Key agricultural issues in the post-Cotonou negotiations
2002
C. Stevens
This Paper discusses the well-established positions that have characterised the EU–African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) debate on trade for the past five years. Negotiations have begun for a successor to the trade regime in the current Cotonou Agreement, with the new trade regime scheduled to be in place by 2008. This Briefing Paper describes the potential implications for agriculture of a new trade agreement. It assesses the data and analysis that is required to understand ACP interests. In addition, it indicates which data and analyses are already available, which need to be undertaken, and the priority areas for this new work.The principal finding of the paper include:for both practical and developmental reasons, the ACP need to identify, first, their national development priorities and, second, their regional goalstrade policy with the EU needs to be tailored so that it is compatible with these national, regional and multilateral prioritiesa high priority for new research is to identify the potential implications of reciprocity in the area of agriculture. An initial set of scoping studies can be based upon a simplifying assumption that the terms of an economic partnership agreement will be similar to those of the EU–South Africa trade, development and cooperation agreement.[adapted from author]
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