Press Release: Economic Partnership Agreements: EU and Central Africa agree next phase of negotiations

EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson met with Central African Ministers in Brussels on 25 November 2005 to agree on the next phase of the Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations between the two regions. Ministers agreed to launch the next phase of negotiations in January 2006, and endorsed a detailed calendar. Work was therefore to begin shortly on drafting the text and legal provisions of the EPA, in areas such as trade in goods, competition policy, public procurement, intellectual property rights, services, investment and trade and environment.

European Commission: DG Trade: Trade issues: Bilateral trade relations: Regions: ACP: EPAs http://ec.europa.eu/comm/trade/issues/bilateral/regions/acp/epas.htm

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