ISSN 1725-2423

Official Journal

of the European Union

C 120

English edition

Information and Notices

Volume 47
30 April 2004

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 7th session was held in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) from 16 to 19 February 2004.

2004/C 120/1

Minutes of the sitting of Monday, 16 February 2004

1

Formal inaugural sitting

1

Sitting of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly

1

Composition of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly

1

Accreditation of non-parliamentary representatives

1

Substitutes

1

Documents received

2

Adoption of draft agenda (ACP-EU/3641)

2

Approval of the minutes of the 6th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (OJ C 26, 29.1.2004)

2

Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs): problems and prospects (ACP-EU/3643/04)Report by Mr Désir and Mrs Hay-Webster (Jamaica) - Committee on Economic Development, Finance and Trade2

2

Report by Mr Désir and Mrs Hay-Webster (Jamaica) - Committee on Economic Development, Finance and Trade

2

Urgent topic 1: cotton and other commodities: problems encountered by ACP countries (ACP-EU 3668/04)

3

2004/C 120/2

Minutes of the sitting of Tuesday, 17 February 2004

4

Substitutes

4

Statement by Mr Poul Nielson, Member of the Commission with responsibility for development and humanitarian aid, and follow-up by the Commission to resolutions adopted at the 6th session of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly (Rome)

4

Question time — Commission

4

Urgent topic 2: damage caused by cyclones in the Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean and the need for a rapid response to natural disasters (ACP-EU 3669/04)

4

Approval of the minutes of Monday, 16 February 2004

5

Statement by Mr Tom Kitt, Minister for Development and Human Rights (Ireland), President-in-Office of the EU Council

5

Statement by Mr Pierre Moussa, Minister for the Plan, Regional Planning and Economic Integration (Republic of the Congo), President-in-Office of the ACP Council

5

Question Time — Council

5

Report by Mr Klutse (Togo) and Mr Morillon — Conflict prevention and resolution and the establishment of a lasting peace — Committee on Political Affairs (ACP-EU 3601/04)

5

2004/C 120/3

Minutes of the sitting of Wednesday, 18 February 2004

7

Substitutes

7

Approval of the minutes of Tuesday morning 17 February 2004

7

Situation in Haiti

7

Report by Mr Betkou (Madagascar) and Mrs Scheele — Poverty diseases and reproductive health in ACP countries in the context of the ninth EDF (ACP-EU 3640/04)

7

Regional integration in Africa in the context of the African Union and NEPAD

7

Activities of the Centre for the Development of Enterprise

8

2004/C 120/4

Minutes of the sitting of Thursday, 19 February 2004

9

Substitutes

9

Approval of the minutes of Tuesday afternoon 17 February and Wednesday afternoon 18 February 2004

9

Report on the United Nations World Summit on the Information society (Geneva, 10-12 December 2003)

9

Rapporteur's summary of the workshops

9

Continuation of the debate on the urgent topic damage caused by cyclones in the Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean and the need for a rapid response to natural disasters (ACP-EU 3669/04)

9

Vote on the motions for resolutions in the reports of the three committees and on the urgent motions for resolutions

9

Any other business

9

Date and place of the 8th session of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly

9

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

10

Record of attendance at the session from 14 to 19 February in Addis Ababa

13

Resolutions adopted

16

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