ISSN 1725-2423

Official Journal

of the European Union

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English edition

Information and Notices

Volume 48
1 April 2005

Notice No

Contents

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I   Information

Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Partnership Agreement concluded between the Members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part

The eighth session was held in The Hague (Netherlands) from 22 to 25 November 2005

2005/C 080/1

Minutes of the sitting of Monday, 22 November 2004

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Formal inaugural sitting

Sitting of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly

Composition of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly

Accreditation of non-parliamentary representatives

Substitutes

Documents received

Adoption of draft agenda (ACP-EU 3695/rev.2)

Co-President's announcements

Approval of the minutes of the last sitting of the seventh session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (OJ C 120, 30.4.2004)

Report by Joel Nabuka (Fiji) and Karin Jöns — ACP-EU political dialogue (Article 8 of the Cotonou Agreement) — Committee on Political Affairs

Urgent topic 1: Situation in Darfur (Sudan)

Debate on the situation in Côte d'Ivoire

2005/C 080/2

Minutes of the sitting of Tuesday, 23 November 2004

4

Substitutes

Debate on budgetisation of the European Development Fund in relation to the work of the Committee on Economic Development, Finance and Trade

Urgent topic 2: The damage caused by cyclones in the Caribbean

Statement by Philippe Kirsch, President of the International Criminal Court, followed by a debate

2005/C 080/3

Minutes of the sitting of Wednesday, 24 November 2004

5

Substitutes

Urgent topic 2: The damage caused by cyclones in the Caribbean

Statement by Louis Michel, Member of the Commission for development and humanitarian aid

Question Time — Commission

Follow-up by the Commission to resolutions adopted at the seventh session of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly (Addis Ababa)

Debate with the Commission

Debate on the situation in the African Great Lakes region — Statement by Aldo Ajello, EU special representative for the Great Lakes region

Report on the activities of the economic and social partners

Approval of the minutes of Tuesday morning, 23 November 2004

Statement by Agnes van Ardenne-van der Hoeven, the Netherlands Minister for Development Cooperation, President-in-Office of the EU Council

Statement by Keith D. Knight, Jamaican Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade, President-in-Office of the ACP Council

Question Time — Council

Debate with the Council

Report by Mr Sanga (Solomon Islands) and Mr Bowis — Food aid and food security in the ACP countries — Committee on Social Affairs and the Environment — Statement by Carl Greenidge, Director of the ACP-EU Technical Centre for the Development of Agriculture

2005/C 080/4

Minutes of the sitting of Thursday, 25 November 2004

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Substitutes

Continuation of the debate on the report by Mr Sanga (Solomon Islands) and Mr Bowis — Food aid and food security in the ACP countries — Committee on Social Affairs and the Environment (ACP-EU 3692/04) — Statement by Carl Greenidge, Director of the ACP-EU the Development of Agriculture

Report on the activities of the economic and social partners

Approval of the minutes of Wednesday morning, 24 November and Wednesday afternoon, 24 November 2004

Rapporteurs' summary of the workshops

Statement by Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of UNICEF, on the 15th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Vote on the proposal to amend the Rules of Procedure

Vote on the motions for resolutions of Committee I and Committee II reports

Other business

Date and place of the ninth session of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly

Alphabetical list of members of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

Record of attendance at the session from 22 to 25 November 2004 in The Hague

Resolutions adopted

Amendments to the Rules of Procedure

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