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Workshop for ACP Ambassadors

Workshop for ACP Ambassadors. The implications of a possible ratification of the Lisbon Treaty for the ACP Group James Mackie & Eleonora Koeb 16 October 2009. EEAS – Implications for ACP and development cooperation. Lots of uncertainty Potential to streamline EC development architecture

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Workshop for ACP Ambassadors

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  1. Workshop for ACP Ambassadors The implications of a possible ratification of the Lisbon Treaty for the ACP Group James Mackie & Eleonora Koeb 16 October 2009

  2. EEAS – Implications for ACP and development cooperation • Lots of uncertainty • Potential to streamline EC development architecture • Main issues for development and the ACP: • Integration of geographical desks for ACP countries into EEAS? • Consistency • Control over allocation, programming + implementation of ODA? • Parliamentary oversight and control? • Unified programming cycle? • End to the current special treatment of the ACP / geographic identification of DG Development with the ACP

  3. The ACP Group and Lisbon • ACP reference removed (safeguarded intergov nature of EU-ACP relations since the Maastricht Treaty)  - see next slide • ‘Declaration on the European Development Fund’ removed (EDF should be outside the budget, since the Maastricht Treaty) • Politically significant change • ACP sliding from the EU agenda? • Formal barriers to budgetisation removed

  4. ACP and EDF

  5. Provisions on development cooperation

  6. Poverty in the overarching objectives

  7. PCD and Complementarity Policy Coherence for Development (Art 208) “Union policy in the field of development cooperation shall be conducted within the framework of the principles and objectives of the Union's external action. The Union's development cooperation policy and that of the Member States complement and reinforce each other. Union development cooperation policy shall have as its primary objective the reduction and, in the long term, the eradication of poverty. The Union shall take account of the objectives of development cooperation in the policies that it implements which are likely to affect developing countries”. Complementarity between Commission and MS (Art 210) “In order to promote the complementarity and efficiency of their action, the Union and the Member States shall coordinate their policies on development cooperation and shall consult each other on their aid programmes, including in international organisations and during international conferences. They may undertake joint action. Member States shall contribute if necessary to the implementation of Union aid programmes.”

  8. The new EU Delegations and the practice of EU development cooperation Implications for ACP and dev cooperation: • Greater capacity and stronger mandate for political dialogue • EU MS may be more willing to delegate cooperation or channel funds for budget support to Delegations • EC may establish increased added value in coordinating EU member states in-country in the context of the ‘Code of Conduct on Division of Labour in Development Policy’.

  9. Trade in services and investment • Implications for the capacity of the EC to negotiate trade and investment agreements with third countries. • Qualified majority rule, co-decision remain • Unanimity required in some cases, included FDI, services and intellectual property rights • EP increased powers re. final text of FTA + in ratifying trade agreements - Any change in practice??? • Common Commercial Policy expanded to include trade in services, protection of intellectual property rights and FDI • Member states lose the mandate to conclude FDI agreements • No more mixed trade agreements • Qualification (art 207, 6) - more uncertainty! Needs ECJ clarification.

  10. Trade in services and investment

  11. Migration Policy • Asylum, immigration and integration - qualified majority voting • European Parliament – co-decision in both legal and illegal migration, including on new laws on entry requirements for non-EU nationals and • EU Member states keep exclusive right to determine # of foreign nationals admitted to their territory • Co-operation supplementary to national regulation and not about the harmonisation of laws (subsidiarity principle). The Lisbon Treaty also • Strengthens role European Court of Justice (ECJ) • Strengthens EC’s legal standing to negotiate readmission

  12. Migration Policy • Increasing EU integration • potential to accelerate creation of common immigration and asylum policy • potential to impact on the capacity of EC to negotiate agreements with third countries

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