EU Economic Partnership Agreements

Mr. Waterson
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development which developing countries are part of EU Economic Partnership Agreements of which the UK is a signatory.

Mr. Thomas
The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), are being negotiated between the EU and the African Caribbean and Pacific, (ACP) group of countries. There are 79 ACP countries. They have divided themselves into six regional groups in order to negotiate EPAs. These six groups are shown as follows. Two countries that are part of the ACP but are not negotiating an EPA are Somalia and Timor-Leste.

West Africa

Benin

Burkina Faso

Cape Verde

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea Bissau

Ivory Coast

Liberia

Mali

Mauritania

Niger

Nigeria

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Togo

Central Africa

Cameroon

Centr. Africa

Chad

Congo (Brazzaville)

Congo (Dem. Rep.)

Equatorial Guinea

Gabon

Sao Tome and Principal

East and South Africa ESA

Burundi

Comoros

Djibouti

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Kenya

Malawi

Mauritius

Madagascar

Rwanda

Seychelles

Sudan

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Southern Africa

Angola

Botswana

Lesotho

Mozambique

Namibia

Swaziland

Tanzania

Caribbean

Antigua and Barbuda

Bahamas

Barbados

Belize

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Grenada

Guyana

Haiti

Jamaica

St. Lucia

St. Vincent

St. Ktts and Nevis

Surinam

Trinidad and Tobago

Pacific

Cook Is.

Fed. Micronisia

Fiji

Kiribati

Marshall Is.

Nauru

Niue

Palau

Papua New Guinea

Samoa

Solomon Islands

Tonga

Tuvalu

Vanuatu