Note 1-10 to:
Graumans, Anne
The European Union - South Africa negotiations: the sting is in the tail. - Amsterdam: Netherlands institute for Southern Africa, 1998 (July). - (NiZA occasional papers; No. 1)
1 This paper is prepared for the Netherlands institute for Southern Africa (NiZA), Amsterdam. The views expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not purport to reflect the thinking of the NiZA. The author would like to express her appreciation to Rashad Cassim, James Hentz and Gottfried Wellmer for commenting on the draft.
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2 Current member states of SADC are: Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Namibia, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.close window
3 The Lomé Convention is a partnership between the EU and 70 countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP). It entails an aid and a trade chapter. The latter accommodates for duty free access for the majority of products originating from ACP countries. The current Lomé IV-bis Convention runs until February 2000 and negotiations on a successor agreement are due to start in September 1998.close window
4 This section is based on a paper prepared for the Foundation for Global Dialogue, Johannesburg, Anne Graumans, 'Redefining relations between South Africa and the European Union: An analysis of the South Africa-European Union trade and cooperation negotiations: 1994-1997', May 1997.close window
5 Due to the GATT Marrakech agreement the situation will have changed by the year 2000. 83 per cent of South Africa's exports will then enter the EU market duty free, and some 54 per cent of EU exports will enter the South African market duty free (ACP-EU Joint Assembly SACU group, 1997:6).close window
6 The Lomé Convention caters for special protocols for rum, beef, sugar and bananas. Under these protocols the ACP countries receive set prices for an agreed quota. These prices are above world market prices for products, which would normally be excluded from preferential access to the EU market.close window
7 The European Development Fund contains funds contributed by the EU member states on a five-yearly basis. The EDF disburses this financial aid through the regional and national indicative programmes agreed upon between (an) ACP state(s) and the EUclose window
8 From 1986-1994, the EU supported anti-apartheid movements in South Africa through the Special Programme for the Victims of Apartheid. 450 million ECU was allocated to the Special Programme in this period.close window
9 No commitments for funds have been made beyond 1999 since the EU and its EU member states still have to negotiate its financial contributions to the EU budget. These negotiations will start in the autumn of 1998.close window
10 The accession of South Africa to Lomé is organised in article 364 of the Lomé IV-bis agreement, agreed upon in Mauritius in 1995. Due to slow procedures within the EU and the ACP countries to ratify the Lomé IV-bis agreement South Africa had to wait to make use of this 'hook-on' clause. close window
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