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The Cotonou Agreement
The Cotonou
Agreement is one cornerstone of the EU trade and development policy. Signed
on 23 June 2000 in Cotonou, Benin, the Agreement will determine the ACP-EU relationship
at least until 2020. It will cover more than one hundred states: the 25 states
of the enlarged EU and the 77 ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) states.
The new Partnership Agreement
builds on the expired Lomé Conventions I-IV, which go back to 1975 and provided
for development cooperation and for trade preferences for the former colonies
of EC member states.
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