EPA Review Annex Documents - DFID
EPA Review Annex Documents - DFID
EPA Review Annex Documents - DFID
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Technicians 2 Masters Degree<br />
Trade Related Issues<br />
Team Leader 1 PHD<br />
Technicians 4 Masters Degree<br />
Legal and Institutional<br />
Issues<br />
Team Leader 1 Masters Degree<br />
Technicians 1 4 Masters Degree<br />
Source : Author’s own calculations<br />
• Earnings<br />
The following table shows the levels of earnings<br />
Table 6 Average salaries<br />
Average Staff Number<br />
Salary Range<br />
US$(monthly) Level of Skills<br />
Minister 2 5000-8000 Masters Degree<br />
Team Leaders 7 4000-5000 Masters Degree<br />
Technicians 17 2000-3500 Masters Degree<br />
Source : Author’s own estimations from SEREX data<br />
<strong>EPA</strong> negotiations<br />
During the <strong>EPA</strong> negotiation an average of 14 negotiators for different GODR agencies<br />
established the Dominican Republic negotiation team for CARIFORUM-EU negotiations.<br />
Internal consulting groups were created in the following areas: market access, services<br />
and investment, trade related issues and legal issues. They consulted with civil society<br />
(primarily the business sector) on constant bases.<br />
The Dominican negotiating team was structured as follows:<br />
1. Lead Negotiator<br />
2. Market Access of Goods<br />
3. Services and Investments<br />
4. Trade Related Issues<br />
5. Legal and Institutional Issues<br />
Each group contained a Lead Negotiator and about three technicians to work on each<br />
specific area. The Lead Negotiator of the Dominican Republic would report directly to the<br />
National Commission of Trade Negotiators (CNNC).<br />
The D.R. did not have any experience in articulating a “regional” position, as required by<br />
the EU, both at the beginning of the negotiations, but most importantly during the course<br />
of elaborating a “single regional” market access offer in goods. Due to the lack of<br />
infrastructure at the beginning of the process to coordinate trade negotiations between<br />
CARICOM countries and the D.R., there was a steep learning curve. In this part of the<br />
process the CRNM played an important role to reduce the frictions that this new process<br />
generated to both parties, CARICOM and the D.R.<br />
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