CARIFORUM-EU Consultative Committee - 8th meeting

Background

The CARIFORUM-EU Consultative Committee (CC) was established with the task and responsibility of assisting the Joint Council (JC) to promote dialogue and cooperation between representatives of organisations of civil society, including the academic community, and social and economic partners. The dialogue is to encompass all economic, social and environmental aspects of the relations between the Parties to the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), as they arise in the context of the implementation of the EPA.

It is made up of forty (40) standing representatives of organisations of the civil society, twenty-five (25) selected by the CARIFORUM States and fifteen (15) in representation of organisations located in the European Union.

The Committee also makes recommendations to the CARIFORUM-EU Trade and Development Committee and to the CARIFORUM-EU Parliamentary Committee.

Cariforum-EU Joint Statement

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