Boniface Macharia Kinyanjui

The Cotonou Agreement: A stimulus to African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Economic Renaissance Boniface Macharia Kinyanjui

Diplomarbeit, die am 23.05.2001 erfolgreich an einer Universität in Deutschland im Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft eingereicht wurde. Abstract: This masters thesis discusses the recently concluded treaty between the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries on the one hand and the European Union (EU) on the other. This Agreement having signed in Cotonou, Benin, is known as the Cotonou Agreement. The Cotonou Agreement is the latest in a series of conventions between the two parties that have their genesis in the late 1950s. The primary goal of this work was to find out to what extent, if at all, the newly signed Agreement is likely to contribute to the economic renaissance of the ACP countries. In so doing it traces development of the ACP-EU conventions right from their very beginning. The performance of the relationship to date is examined with a view to determining whether the lessons learnt therefrom have been incorporated in the new Agreement. There is a detailed analysis of the trade and aid provisions of the Cotonou Agreement. Apart from the economic provisions, other major provisions and developments of the ACP-EU Conventions are discussed with a view to providing a wholesome picture. Table of Contents: |Abbreviations|iv |Table oftreaties|vi |Table ofcases|viii 1.|Introduction|1 2.|Historical antecedents of the Cotonou Agreement|3 2.1|The early associational arrangements|3 2.1.1|Overseas Countries and Territories|3 2.1.2|Yaounde I|6 2.1.3|Yaounde II|7 2.1.4|The Lagos and Arusha Conventions|8 2.2|The Lome Conventions|9 2.2.1|Lome I|9 2.2.2|Lome II|12 2.2.3|Lome III|13 2.2.4|Lome IV|14 2.2.5|RevisedLome IV|16 2.3|Evaluation of the economic impact of the Lome Conventions to date|19 2.3.1|Introduction|20 2.3.2|Extra Lome Convention constraints|22 2.3.3|Lome Convention constraints|23 3.|The GreenPaper|27 4.|The Cotonou Agreement|29 4.1|Introduction|29 4.2|The novel commercial framework|32 4.2.1|Trade Pr