There will be various activities in connection with relations between the EESC and the ACP region.
The EESC will continue monitoring Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations with the ACP countries and contribute to the implementation of the EPA concluded with the Caribbean countries. The EESC will participate in the ACP Joint Parliamentary Assembly that will take place in Prague from 6 to 9 April 2009. The EESC will organise a regional seminar in South Africa in June 2009. The Czech Republic Presidency will be invited to participate in this event.
The EESC will adopt an opinion on the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights in the first quarter of 2009.
The EESC also has two complementary tasks: first, involving civil society organisations more in the European venture, and, second, boosting the role of civil society organisations in non-member countries or groups of countries, such as the countries applying for EU membership, with which very active consultative committees have been set up; the Euromed countries bordering the Mediterranean; African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries; Mercosur countries (Latin America); and India, amongst other.
“The activities of the European Economic and Social Committee during the Czech Presidency”
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