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This paper considers the issues involved in the Lomé Convention's trade preference system and what possible avenues are available to the European Union (EU) and the seventy-one African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states in assuring the World Trade Organisation (WTO) compatibility of the post-Lomé trade arrangement. The implicit assumption behind the analysis is that the EU still wishes to maintain the trade preference arrangements or the political and economic relations that currently exist between the ACP and the EU. There is ample evidence that the EU has greatly diminished political and economic interests in the continuation of this trade regime which maintains the ACP states at the peak of its 'pyramid of EC trade privilege'.

An important area in which the Single European Act (SEA) has failed to agree a common policy is in its approach towards the developing countries. This paper examines the changing nature of the relationship between the European Community (EC) and its developing country partners, in particular the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states, as the EC moves toward a more integrated community. It argues that as the EC attempts to incorporate the former Eastern bloc into free market liberalism with new policies of association, ACP interests are in danger of becoming marginalised.

The study of appropriate URLs will provide CTA with the necessary elements to develop suitable documentation. More particularly, the study will supply information on the value and relevance of existing Internet documentation in terms of content, topicality and accuracy of the information and its level of adaptation for use by CTA's target groups (for example, officials in the Ministries of Agriculture and Trade, and other interested parties, in the ACP countries). ; The study of appropriate URLs will provide CTA with the necessary elements to develop suitable documentation.