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The Lomé Convention and The International Law of Development: A Concretisation of The New International Economic Order?

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At the beginning of the 1980s the North–South dialogue seems to have lost much of its momentum. The prevalent feeling is characterised by frustration about the dialogue's practical achievements, by growing cynicism as to its possibilities and by little hope in regard to new initiatives. The reasons for this view are manifold: the failure of major international conferences, the set-back in the negotiations on new international instruments, the standstill at the global level because of the hesitation of some countries, in particular the United States, which is reconsidering its development policy, and the deterioration of the social and economic situation in most developing countries. Given the growing economic difficulties in many industrialised states, the international climate for the necessary restructuring of the international economic order seems to have gradually worsened. This situation led the Brandt Commission to include in its report a proposal for a North–South summit conference of a limited number of heads of states or governments so as to create a new political impetus. This proposal materialised in the summit conference at Cancun, Mexico, convened by the Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and the Mexican President Lopes Portillo. One of the hoped-for results of the Cancun summit was to reach consensus on the opening of a “global round of negotiations”, which would provide the framework for a comprehensive effort within the United Nations towards a New International Economic Order (N.I.E.O.).

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27 See Multilaterally Agreed Equitable Principles and Rules for the Control of Restrictive Business Practices, TC/RBP/Conf/10, United Nations 1980: (adopted at the U.N. Conference on Restrictive Business Practices, New York, 22 04, 1980)Google Scholar: For a general legal analysis of codes of conduct see Baade, Hans W., “The Legal Effect of Codes of Conduct for Multinational Enterprises”, (1979) 22 G.Y.I.LGoogle Scholar.

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29 A most interesting example is the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference (S.A.D.C.C., 1980), other examples may be found in the Andean Pact (Carthagena Agreement, 1969/1979), the ASEAN group (1967) or ECOWAS (1975).

30 E.C.A. has played a promotive role in most of the efforts of African institution-building and integration. It also has developed its own sub-regional structure through five Multinational Programming and Operational Centres (MULPOCs). See: Adedeji, Adebayo, Statement at the opening of the 5th Meeting of the Conference of Ministers in Rabat, 20th March, 1979, UNECA, Addis Ababa, 1979; See also below, n. 74 and n. 75Google Scholar.

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34 Report of O.A.U. Ministerial Meeting on African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, 7–19 January, 1981, Banjul, The Gambia, O.A.U. Doc. CAB/LEG/67/3/Rev. 5, art. 22Google Scholar; this draft charter was adopted by the O.A.U. Assembly of Heads of State and Government at Nairobi in June, 1981.

35 Important examples are the International Development Strategies adopted for the second and third development decade of the United Nations, G.A.-Res. 2626 (XXV) of 24 October, 1970, and G.A.-Res. 35/36 of 5 December, 1980. See M. Flory, above.

36 On 1 June, 1982, it comprises all African developing states South of Sahara, except Angola, Mozambique and Namibia; the Caribbean countries Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago and the Pacific islands Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Western Samoa, Vanuatu.

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38 When this protocol was negotiated E.E.C. prices were below prices on the world market. ater, when world market prices fell, A.C.P. producers earned considerable profits. A.C.P. roducers Kenya, Uganda, Congo and Surinam were unable to meet their responsibilities. When he Community, according to article 7 of Protocol No. 3, sought to reduce the agreed quotas of hose states a dispute arose as to whether the non-delivery could be subsumed under force majeure. The A.C.P.–E.E.C. Council of Ministers decided to solve the dispute, in accordance with art. 81 (2) of the Lomé I Convention, by means of a “good offices procedure”. In case of failure of this rocedure the dispute would have to be settled by arbitration as provided for by art. 81 (3) of Lomé I.

39 For the details of the negotiations of Lomé II see: Ravenhill, John, “Asymmetrical interdependence: renegotiating the Lomé Convention”, (19791980) 35International Journal, Canadian Institute of International AffairsGoogle Scholar; Sharp, Robin, “The A.C.P. Countries and Renewal of Lomé: Is Anything Better Than Nothing?”, (1979) Afrika Spectrum8794Google Scholar.

40 Protocol no. 1, concerning the definition of the concept of “originating products” and ethods of administrative co-operation, deals with the operating expenditure of the institutions, rivileges and immunities, bananas, rum, the tax and customs arrangements applicable to the A.C.P. states to contracts financed by the Community; see also the text of the Protocol no. 3 on A.C.P. Sugar, Lomé I.

41 The famous “lettre de piscine”, an exchange of letters between the two heads of delegation at Lomé containing some interpretative statements on the controversial “joint declaration on investments” contained in Annex IX, was not included in the official text although the A.C.P. answer to the E.E.C. note had asked for its inclusion.

42 E.E.C. officials deplore this development, which raises considerable problems in the application of the convention; they would prefer clear division between legally binding provisions and non-binding declarations of intent.

43 This fall may also be due to accidents, serious technical mishaps or “grave political events, whether internal or external” (art. 52).

44 Compare Annex X: Joint declaration on complementary financing of industrial co-operation.

45 See the interpretative qualification of art. 9, paragraph 2, in the Community declaration in Annex XXVIII to the effect that this obligation does not apply if non-E.E.C. states do grant A.C.P. states greater preferences than the Community.

46 See above, n. 34.

47 The Community itself has promoted this notion by the distribution of a detailed private study of the “irrevocable interdependence” between Europe and the Third World. See Noelke, Michael, “Europe—Third World: Mutual Dependence”, Commission of the European Communities, Development Series No. 2, Brussels 1979Google Scholar, in particular the prescript of Claude Cheysson; see also: Noelke, Wolfgang, “Europa—Dritte Welt: Interdependenz als Herausforderung”, (“Europe—Third World: Interdependence as Challenge”), dokuentations bulletin A, Sondernummer, 2 Aufl., Brüssels, 1980Google Scholar.

48 In 1978 38·2 per cent, of the Community's exports went to the countries of the Third World.

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50 This argument is also to be found in: “European security and African problems”, Report to the Assembly of Western European Union, Document 772 of 16 05, 1978Google Scholar

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54 The text of the Lomé II Convention together with the protocols and 44 annexed declarations are to be found in The Courier, Africa—Caribbean—Pacific—European Community, No. 58, special issue, 11, 1979Google Scholar. However the declarations which form part of the signing protocol of Lomé are not reproduced.

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56 The Rules of Procedure of the Lomé institutions, the decisions of the A.C.P.–E.E.C. Council of Ministers, relevant regulations of the E.E.C. Council, agreements, accessions and other acts are to be found in “Compilation of Texts”, (E.E.C. Brussels) which cover each about one year of operations.

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62 Indeed the A.C.P. states criticise the erosion of “their” preferences whereas non-A.C.P. developing states complain about the privileged treatment of the A.C.P.

63 See above, n. 4.

64 This happened in the case of Mauritius. In response, the A.C.P. invoked art. 12 (2) of the Convention which states that “the Community and its Member States undertake not to use safeguard measures or other means for protectionist purposes or to hamper structural development”.

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70 See Protocol No. 1, art. 1. The A.C.P. therefore are treated as a free trade area by the E.E.C.

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76 Cf. para. 39 of the resolution, above, n. 58.

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78 Increasing awareness among developing countries of this fact can be seen from the various efforts to develop economic co-operation (E.C.D.C.) as well as technical co-operation between developing countries (T.C.D.C.), which are particularly aided by UNCTAD.

79 Cf. for the E.E.C. position Reactivation of the North–South dialogue, Communication from the Commission to the European Council, COM (80) 302 of 29 05, 1980Google Scholar: “Dialogue at regional level is now an essential part of the Community's policy for the North–South dialogue”.

80 See, for example, vanThemaat, P. Verloren, “Die Aufgabe der Rechtswissenschaft in der Diskussion um eine neue Weltwirtschaftsordnung,” (1979) 43 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internales Privatrecht 632.Google Scholar

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