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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

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