Cotonou agreement

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Cotonou agreement

the latest in a long series of European Union legal instruments to assist the African, Caribbean and Pacific States as well as others outside the Union. The basic framework was established in the now expired LOMÉ CONVENTION. This agreement retains the main instruments of the previous system such as institutions and financial instruments. The purpose is to work towards trade between the two parties being liberalized, ending the system of non-reciprocal trade preferences. The Cotonou Agreement identifies the least-developed ACP states which, in certain cases, benefit from special treatment.

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The Cotonou Agreement linking the ACP and the European Union was signed in June 2000 in Benin's largest city.

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The ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) brings together 78 MEPs and 78 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries that signed the Cotonou Agreement, the basis of ACP-EU cooperation and development work.

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The Cotonou Agreement is a treaty between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of states, signed in 2000 in Cotonou, the largest city in Benin.