ACP-EU JOINT PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY
21 November 2006 ACP-EU/3932/2006
12th SESSION
18 to 23 November 2006
Sherbourne Conference Centre
BRIDGETOWN (Barbados)
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AGENDA and WORK PROGRAMME
Website of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly: http://www.europarl.eu.int/intcoop/acp
Website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados: http://www.foreign.gov.bb/events.cfm?event=1
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1. Deadline for tabling questions to the Council and Commission
- Tuesday, 10 October at 4 p.m.
2. Deadline for tabling urgent motions for resolutions
- Tuesday, 17 October at 4 p.m.
3. Deadline for tabling compromise motions for resolutions
- Monday, 20 November at 3 p.m.
4. Deadline for tabling amendments
to the motions for resolutions included in the reports submitted by the standing committees
- Monday, 20 November at 6 p.m.
to compromise resolutions and other urgent motions for resolutions to be put to the vote
- Tuesday, 21 November at 3 p.m.
5. Requests relating to voting methods (votes on separate parts of the text, by secret ballot, by separate houses)
- Thursday, 24 November at 9 a.m. in writing
6. Limitation of speaking time (cf. Article 14(2) of the Rules of Procedure)
6 minutes for introductory statements
3 minutes for speakers in debates (unless speaking time is allocated differently on the basis of a division of the total time available)
2 minutes for winding up
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Other meetings
SATURDAY, 18 November
10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
Women's Forum (Hibiscus room)
2.30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Meeting of the Committee on Economic Development, Finance and Trade (Hibiscus room)
5.30 p.m. to 8 p.m. (simultaneously)
- Meeting of the Committee on Political Affairs (Hibiscus room) - Meeting of the Committee on Social Affairs and the Environment (Flamboyant room)
SUNDAY, 19 November
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Project visits
5 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.
Meeting of the Bureau (Flamboyant room)
MONDAY, 20 November
8.30 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.
Conciliation meetings on urgent motions for resolutions
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MONDAY, 20 November
11.00 a.m.
Formal opening sitting of the 12th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (Hibiscus room)
List of speakers:
– Dame Billie A. Miller, Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados – Mr René Radembino-Coniquet, Co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly – Ms Glenys Kinnock, Co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly – The Rt. Hon. Owen S. Arthur, Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Barbados
3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Sitting of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly
Constituent meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly and accreditation of non-parliamentary representatives
1. Adoption of draft agenda
2. Approval of the minutes of the 11th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (not yet published in OJ)
3. Statement by Mr Louis Michel, Member of the Commission with special responsibility for development and humanitarian aid, with special mention of the programming of the 10th European Development Fund
4. Question Time to the Commission
5. Action taken by the Commission on the resolutions adopted at the 11th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, held in Vienna (Austria)
6. Debate with the Commission
7. Urgent topic No 1: The situation in East Africa 1
1 East African Region as defined by the ACP Group
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9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
8. Debate on the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (without resolution)
9. Report by Mr L. Boyce Sebetela (Botswana) and Mr Hans-Peter Mayer - The impact of tourism on the ACP countries' development Committee on Economic Development, Finance and Trade
- Statement by Mr Noel A. Lynch, Minister of Tourism and International Transport of Barbados
10. Report of the economic and social partners
2.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.
11. Address by Mr Mark Malloch Brown, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, on "The work and role of the United Nations in the 21st century", followed by a debate
3.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
12. Workshops: - Elements of environmental management systems to protect watersheds and coastal ecosystems - EU cooperation for the competitiveness of ACP commodities: the case of rum and other ACP products - The treatment of HIV/AIDS: identifying, measuring and meeting the costs
WEDNESDAY, 22 November
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
13. Statement by Ms Paula Lehtomäki, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development (Finland), President-in-Office of the EU Council
14. Statement by Dr Onofre Rojas, Minister of State and National Authorising Officer of the EDF of the Dominican Republic and member of the Troika of the ACP Council, President-in-Office of the ACP Council
15. Question Time to the Council
16. Debate with the Council
17. Report by Ms Ana Gomes and Mr William Duguid (Barbados) - Small arms and light weapons and sustainable development Committee on Political Affairs
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18. Urgent topic No 2: The review of EPAs negotiations - Statements by Dame Billie A. Miller, Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (Barbados), lead CARIFORUM Ministerial Spokesperson in the EPA negotiations and Chair of the ACP Ministerial Trade Committee (MTC), and Mr Peter Mandelson, Member of the Commission with special responsibility of external trade (by videolink)
19. Report by Mr Achille Tapsoba (Burkina Faso) and Ms Eija-Riitta Korhola - Water in developing countries Committee on Social Affairs and the Environment
THURSDAY, 23 November
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
20. Summary reports from the workshops
21. Vote on the modification of the Rules of Procedure
22. Vote on the motions for resolutions included in the reports submitted by the three standing committees
(At 10.30 a.m.)
23. Statement of Mr Pascal Lamy, Director General of the World Trade Organisation, followed by a debate (by videolink)
24. Address by H.E. Edwin W. Carrington, Secretary-General of CARICOM
25. Vote on urgent motions for resolutions
26. Any other business
27. Date and place of the 13th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
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