Member states Africa The African OACPS countries negotiate in five Economic Partnership Agreements groups (West Africa, Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa, Southern Africa Development Community, East African Community, Eastern and Southern Africa) with the EU.
Caribbean All countries of the Caribbean Community plus Dominican Republic group negotiate in the CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU). The Caribbean-bloc is sometimes co-represented at EU-LAC (Latin America and the Caribbean).
Pacific All developing member states of the Pacific Islands Forum group and Timor-Leste negotiate in the Pacific EPA with the EU.
North Atlantic EU OCTs In this region are located the EU overseas countries and territories (OCTs) of Greenland and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, but there are no OACPS states.
South Atlantic dependent territories In this region are located the U.K. overseas territories of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha and Falkland Islands, but there are no OACPS states. Nevertheless, Saint Helena is developing links with the SADC EPA group.
Uninhabited territories The uninhabited EU OCT does not participate in regional integration and does not receive development funding from the EU.
French Southern and Antarctic Territories, located in the Indian Ocean The uninhabited U.K. overseas territories are not OACPS states and do not receive development funding from the EU.
British Indian Ocean Territory, located in the Indian Ocean South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, located in the South Atlantic
Special designations The Cotonou agreement recognises the specific challenges faced by less developed countries, land-locked countries, and islands in their economic development. Therefore, those countries are granted a more favourable treatment than other OACPS member countries. The text of the Cotonou agreement has been updated in 2005 and 2010, but the lists have not, despite the fact that the actual list of LDCs as defined by the United Nations has changed: Cape Verde has graduated from LDC status in December 2007, while Senegal has acquired the status in 2001 and Timor-Leste in 2003. The following lists should thus not be considered as the actual lists of OACPS LDCs and islands (a few islands are also not listed). Annex VI of the Cotonou agreement lists the following designations:
Least-developed OACPS states Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, the Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Tuvalu, Togo, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia. The Least developed OCTs are the following: Anguilla, Mayotte, Montserrat, Saint Helena, Turks and Caicos Islands, Wallis and Futuna, Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
Landlocked OACPS states Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Island OACPS states Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cape Verde, Comoros, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Kiribati, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Vanuatu.
Organs ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly ACP–EU development cooperation European Centre for Development Policy Management Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA)
Trade and legal framework EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) with the ACP countries
See also CARIFORUM–United Kingdom Economic Partnership Agreement The Courier (ACP-EU) : The magazine of Africa-Caribbean-Pacific and European Union cooperation and relations Everything but Arms
References External links
Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly ACP-EU cooperation dossier of Euforic African Voices: About EC Aid to Africa The Courier - The Magazine of Africa, Caribbean, Pacific and European Union cooperation and relations CTA's magazine on agriculture in ACP countries, Spore Website on EU cooperation for ACP countries Archived 2009-12-11 at the Wayback Machine Official website 2021 Annual report (Archive1, Archive2, Archive3) 2020 Annual report (Archive1, Archive2, Archive3) 2022-2025 Strategic Plan becoming a Centre of Excellence (Archive1, Archive2, Archive3) 2030 Strategic Plan of Action for Fisheries and Aquaculture (Archive1, Archive2, Archive3)