The economic partnership agreements (EPAs) to be negotiated between the European Union and six different ACP regions under the Cotonou Agreement are intended to be in conformity with WTO rules, i.e. satisfy GATT Article XXIV and GATS Article V. To what extent is this realistic? What would be the effects on the ACP countries?
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This article summarises the following study: A. Borrmann, H. Großmann, and G. Koopmann: The WTO Compatibility of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and the ACP States, Study on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Eschborn 2005, http://www.gtz.de/de/dokumente/enwto-epa-acp-2005.pdf.
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Borrmann, A., Großmann, H. & Koopmann, G. The WTO Compatibility of the Economic Partnership Agreements between the EU and the ACP Countries. Intereconomics 41, 115–120 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-006-0179-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-006-0179-2