Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be taken in the ACP-EU Council of Ministers regarding the revision of Annex IC of the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement

Background and further information:

The ACP-EU Partnership Agreement aims to set up an association between the European Union and the ACP States. The Agreement entered into force on 1 April 2003 and has been revised in 2005 and 2010 in accordance with the revision clause to re-examine the Agreement every five years.

In pursuance of article 95(2) of the Agreement, financial protocols are defined for a given period. Such financial protocols lay down the overall amount of the EU's financial assistance. For the period 2014-2020, the financial protocol was adopted by Decision No 1/2013 of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers of 7 June 2013 and takes the form of Annex IC to the Agreement.

This proposal concerns the decision establishing the position to be taken on the Union's behalf in the ACP-EU Council of Ministers in connection with the envisaged adoption of a decision of the Council of Ministers concerning the reassignment of funds towards the allocation financing the intra-ACP and interregional cooperation with many or all of the ACP states.