African,
Caribbean and Pacific
Sugar Group
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What's new?
Press
Release - 21 December 2005
The outcome of EU budget negotiations has been greeted with deep concern by African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) sugar supplying states. Upcoming Event - 19-21 December 2005
Agriculture and Fisheries Council Meeting to be attended by Agriculture Ministers and the European Commission.
ACP in the News - 18 October 2005
MEP Glenys Kinnock, touring the Caribbean with a delegation from the EU and ACP parliamentary assembly, has said the proposed cuts are way too steep and would cause social instability and has promised to help the region get a better deal.
The outcome of EU budget negotiations has been greeted with deep concern by African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) sugar supplying states. Upcoming Event - 19-21 December 2005
Agriculture and Fisheries Council Meeting to be attended by Agriculture Ministers and the European Commission.
ACP in the News - 18 October 2005
MEP Glenys Kinnock, touring the Caribbean with a delegation from the EU and ACP parliamentary assembly, has said the proposed cuts are way too steep and would cause social instability and has promised to help the region get a better deal.
Welcome to
the ACP Sugar Website
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The
ACP Sugar Group are the eighteen African, Caribbean and Pacific states
signatories to the ACP/EU Sugar Protocol. These countries have
enjoyed a long standing, traditional place in European sugar markets,
and they have become an integral part of the EU sugar regime.
The recent European Commission proposal to reform the sugar regime will have an absolutely crippling effect on the vulnerable economies of the ACP sugar supplying countries. What is being put forward is too deep, too quick and too soon as far as ACP producers are concerned.
The recent European Commission proposal to reform the sugar regime will have an absolutely crippling effect on the vulnerable economies of the ACP sugar supplying countries. What is being put forward is too deep, too quick and too soon as far as ACP producers are concerned.
Did you know?
The Sugar Protocol
is a trade agreement of indefinite duration between the European Union
and the nineteen ACP states which are signatory to it.
More about the ACP/EU Sugar
Protocol and
SPS
In some ACP
countries, sugar exports under the Protocol account for over one
quarter of GDP, and no less than 85% of total agricultural exports.
More about socio-economic importance
Sugar has had a
centuries-old place in the European market and has had a significant
influence on the histories and culture of European and ACP countries.
More about the EU sugar
policy
Click here for
more interesting facts & figures about ACP Sugar.
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