Consideraciones en el Biosecado

Date(s): 1 February 1975 to 26 September 1980

Level of description: SERIES

Extent of the unit of description: 5 archive box, 50 cm.

Name of creator(s): ACP-EEC Consultative Assembly (period covered by the Lomé  I Convention) (ACON.LO1)

Historical note

Title VI of the ACP-EEC Lomé Convention, which was signed on 28 February 1975 and entered into force on 1 April 1976, lays down the provisions governing the institutions of the Association:

– the Council of Ministers,

– the Committee of Ambassadors, which would assist the Council of Ministers, and

– the Consultative Assembly.

Article 80 of the Convention provides that:

‘1. The Consultative Assembly shall be composed on a basis of parity of members of the Assembly on the side of the Community and of the representatives designated by the ACP States on the other. 2. The Consultative Assembly shall appoint its Bureau and shall adopt its own rules of procedure. 3. The Consultative Assembly shall meet at least once a year.’

From 1975 to 1980, all meetings of the Consultative Assembly were held in Luxembourg.

STRUCTURE AND CONTENT

Series ACP 03LO1 00AC consists of a collection documents relating to the meetings of the Consultative Assembly. It includes 15 files that essentially relate to eight different meetings.

Constituent meeting of the Consultative Assembly held from 1 to 3 June 1976 in Luxembourg

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In most instances, the file for each meeting is broken down thematically as follows: – preparation and proceedings,

– logistics,

– follow-up to the meeting and, in some cases,

– correspondence.

Pursuant to Article 4 of its Rules of Procedure, the Consultative Assembly met once a year. It elected its Bureau (Rule 6), which consisted of 12 members, of whom two were elected President and 10 Vice- President of the Assembly, on a parity basis. Accordingly, each annual meeting of the Consultative Assembly was a constituent meeting, as it involved the election of its Bureau.

Content of the series

The first meeting held on 24 and 25 November 1975159 _{consisted primarily of an ‘exchange of views}

on issues raised by the implementation of Article  80 of the Lomé Convention on the ACP-EEC Consultative Assembly’ (item 0020). This Article lays down the organisation and operation of the Consultative Assembly, including its Rules of Procedure. At this meeting, preliminary draft Rules of Procedure were drawn up (item 0050).

Although the list of participants is not available, this appears to have been a joint meeting. Item 0010 from this file provides an account of the meeting of the ACP Group of States held on 24 November, while item 0020 relates to the invitation extended to the EP Delegation to attend the meeting held on 25 November.

This meeting was a preparatory meeting for the joint preparatory meeting for the meeting of the ACP-EEC Consultative Assembly held on 26 and 27 November 1975.

Therefore, the meeting held on 26 and 27 November 1975160 _{was the joint preparatory meeting for}

the Consultative Assembly. This meeting was convened to adopt the draft Rules of Procedure of the Consultative Assembly and to set the date and place of the constituent meeting of the Consultative Assembly (item 0010).

The meeting held on 31 May 1976161 _{consisted of a ‘coordination meeting of representatives of the}

ACP States’ (item 0050), the afternoon session of which the EP Delegation was also invited to attend (item 0040).

The meeting held from 1 to 3 June 1976162 _{was the constituent meeting of the Consultative Assembly,}

as well as its first annual meeting, involving: – adoption of the Rules of Procedure (item 0160), – the composition of the Assembly,

– the election of the Bureau,

– the election of members of the Joint Committee and its Chairmen.

The internal Financial Regulation of the Consultative Assembly was also adopted.

The four subsequent meetings are the four annual meetings of the Consultative Assembly held in 1977163_{, 1978}164_{, 1979}165 _{and 1980}166_{. They were structured along the same lines:}

159 ] ACON-19751124 160 ] ACON-19751126-01, 02, 03 161 ] ACON-19760531 162 ] ACON-19760601-01, 02 163 ] ACON-19770608-01, 02, 03 164 ] ACON-19780927 165 ] ACON-19791010-01, 02 166 ] ACON-19800924-01

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– constituent meeting (composition of the Assembly, election of the Bureau and election of the members of the Joint Committee and its Chairmen),

– formal inaugural sitting (speeches),

– presentation of the annual report of the Council of Ministers pursuant to Rule 80(4) of the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly (1976).

– exchange of views on specific issues: problems raised by the implementation of the provisions of the Lomé Convention, arrangements for closer cooperation with the representatives of ACP economic and social interest groups and their counterparts from the Member States of the Community, analysis of the outcome of the Lomé Convention and consideration of new provisions for the Lomé II Convention from 1979 onwards, together with possible amendments to the Rules of Procedure of the Consultative Assembly.

LIST OF FILES

Reference code Title

ACON-19751124 Meeting held on 24 and 25 November 1975, Luxembourg

(6) – 17/11/1975 – 25/11/1975 ACON-19751126-01 Preparatory meeting held on 26  and 27  November 1975, Luxembourg –

proceedings

(21) – 15/10/1975 – 31/1/1976 ACON-19751126-02 Preparatory meeting held on 26  and 27  November 1975, Luxembourg –

logistics

(3) – 2/10/1975 – 26/11/1975 ACON-19751126-03 Preparatory meeting held on 26  and 27  November 1975, Luxembourg –

correspondence

(2) – 2/10/1975 – 4/11/1975 ACON-19760531 Meeting held on 31 May 1976, Luxembourg

(4) – 31/5/1976 – 31/5/1976 ACON-19760601-01 Constituent meeting held from 1 to 3 June 1976, Luxembourg – preparation,

proceedings and follow-up

(33) – 1/2/1975 – 15/6/1976 ACON-19760601-02 Constituent meeting held from 1  to 3  June 1976, Luxembourg –

logistics

(7) – 3/2/1976 – 1/6/1976 ACON-19770608-01 Annual meeting held from 8 to 10 June 1977, Luxembourg – preparation,

proceedings and follow-up

(35) – 16/6/1976 – 10/6/1977 ACON-19770608-02 Annual meeting held from 8 to 10 June 1977, Luxembourg – logistics

(5) – 28/2/1977 – 8/6/1977 ACON-19770608-03 Annual meeting held from 8 to 10 June 1977, Luxembourg – correspondence (1) – 6/6/1977 ACON-19780927 Annual meeting held from 27 to 29 September 1978, Luxembourg

(30) – 1/9/1978 – 9/12/1978

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ACON-19791010-01 Annual meeting held from 10  to 12  October 1979, Luxembourg – proceedings

(33) – 4/5/1979 – 12/10/1979 ACON-19791010-02 Annual meeting held from 10  to 12  October 1979, Luxembourg –

logistics

(6) – 31/7/1979 – 9/10/1979 ACON-19800924-01 Annual meeting held from 24  to 26  September 1980, Luxembourg –

proceedings

(23) – 1/7/1980 – 26/9/1980 ACON-19800924-02 Annual meeting held from 24  to 26  September 1980, Luxembourg –

logistics

(2) – 8/9/1980 – 22/9/1980

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Meetings of the Joint Committee