EPA Review Annex Documents - DFID
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Table 5 Capacity Building Programmes in Intra-Africa unit<br />
NAME OF MEETING & VENUE DATE SPONSORED BY<br />
1 Identification and Treatment of 29 January ECOWAS Commission<br />
Sensitive Products, Burkina Faso 2007<br />
2 Issues on Sensitive Product, Senegal 28 June - 5<br />
July 2007<br />
ECOWAS Commission<br />
3 Workshop on Trade in Services and 2007 Organisation Internationale<br />
Market access negotiation skill, Togo<br />
Francophonie<br />
ECOWAS<br />
PMU and<br />
4 Update on Sensitive Product list, Mali 26 April - 2<br />
May 2008<br />
ECOWAS Commission<br />
5 Training Workshop on Selection of<br />
Sensitive products list, Dakar<br />
Senegal<br />
2008 ECOWAS Commission<br />
6 ECOWAS Thematic Group on <strong>EPA</strong> September ECOWAS Commission<br />
Market Access, Ghana<br />
2009<br />
7 ECOWAS CGE model Training<br />
Workshop, Dakar<br />
April 2009 Ministry and ECOWAS<br />
8 ECOWAS Thematic Group on <strong>EPA</strong> July 2009 Ministry and ECOWAS<br />
Market Access, Dakar<br />
Commission<br />
9 Impact Assessment Study on September Ministry<br />
Services and development<br />
2009<br />
10 <strong>EPA</strong> Workshop October Ministry<br />
11 <strong>EPA</strong> Chief negotiations meeting,<br />
Brussels<br />
15 June 2009 Ministry<br />
12 Workshop on A4 Trade 4-8 May 2009 Ministry<br />
13 Workshop on Trade in services in<br />
South Africa<br />
14 Regional Seminar on Trade in<br />
services, Dakar Senegal<br />
8-12 June<br />
2009<br />
22-24 Jan<br />
2009<br />
128<br />
WTO Secretariat<br />
Source: Survey of Federal Ministry of Commerce and Industry Officials, October 2009<br />
3. Costs incurred during <strong>EPA</strong> Negotiations<br />
Certain assumptions were made to obtain the costs under this section, particularly as they relate<br />
to the transportation to and from the meetings. Because it was a bit difficult to obtain the airfares<br />
to and from the meetings, the distance between Lagos in Nigeria and the meeting destinations<br />
measured in nautical miles were obtained and estimated using the fare derived from roundtrip<br />
fare to Cote d’Ivoire from Lagos. The number and cost of <strong>EPA</strong> negotiation related meetings<br />
attended by government officials with the EC are those that involve travelling to Brussels to<br />
confer with the EC. These are four in number and are quite a few because the negotiations are<br />
designed to be undertaken at the level of the ECOWAS Commission while Nigeria only attends<br />
as an observer. The ECOWAS Commission was responsible for the passages of the<br />
Honourable Minister and one expert, while the Ministry was responsible for the remaining two<br />
participants. The per diem per day is estimated at $262 while that of the Minister is a little bit<br />
higher but quite insignificant. The total cost of attending <strong>EPA</strong>-related meetings by the Ministry<br />
Officials spent so far during the period of negotiations is US$56,420.8 between 2006 and 2009<br />
(Table 6). There should have been more meetings with the EU except that Nigeria did not<br />
EU