Activities of the ACP-EU Joint Assembly in 2004

Parliament adopted a non-binding resolution with 540 votes in favour, 20 against with 2 abstentions on the work of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) in 2004. (Please refer to the summary dated 21/02/2005).

In addition, Parliament calls on the JPA to help strengthen the role of parliamentarians in the ACP countries in terms of exercising parliamentary control of their respective governments, particularly with regard to development aid. It equally calls on the JPA to exercise to the full its remit of democratic supervision of the CDE and CTA as bodies set up under the Cotonou Agreement, as it did at Addis Ababa within the framework of a general debate with the CDE and in The Hague with the CTA, in the context of its consideration of the report on food aid and food security.

Parliament congratulates the JPA Bureau on having rebalanced the agenda of the JPA sessions so as to leave more time for contributions from the floor and fewer and, in most cases, shorter contributions from the platform.

Lastly, Parliament calls on the British Presidency and the Bureau of the EP to make the requisite arrangements for holding the 10th session in the United Kingdom.