§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Minister for Overseas Development what steps are being taken to improve consultation between the EEC and ACP countries in respect of the implementation of the Lomé Convention.
§ Mr. PrenticeThe Lomé Convention itself made detailed provision for consultation between the EEC and ACP countries and set up for the purpose a Joint Council of Ministers, a Committee of Ambassadors and a Consultative Assembly, in each of which both groups of countries are represented. Last June the member States of the Community took a number of detailed decisions as proposed by the European Commission laying down procedures for informing the ACP States of proposals or recommendations and for applying the procedures for consultation under the Lomé Convention. I hope that when these new procedures are put fully in operation, whatever defects may have emerged in the arrangements will have been corrected. It has also been agreed that, in order to follow up various points raised at the first meeting of the Joint Council of Ministers, the 123W President of the EEC Council of Ministers will meet the President of the ACP Ministers in November.
§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Minister for Overseas Development if he will publish details of the aid programme under the Lomé Convention under which 3,000 million units of account have been allocated up to March 1980, showing which ACP countries will benefit, and by how much, and giving allocations in sterling.
§ Mr. PrenticeThe Lomé Convention provides for the aid to be programmed in conjunction with each recipient State in such a way that each recipient can obtain as clear an idea as possible of the amount of aid that it can expect to receive
Recipient ACP State Product £ Benin … … … Groundnuts … … … … 309,553 Coffee … … … … 783,255 Cotton … … … … 2,866,370 Oilcake … … … … 794,052 Burundi … … … Cotton … … … … 643,734 Raw hides … … … … 346,702 Cameroon … … … Wood in the rough … … … … 2,400,948 Central African Republic … … … Coffee … … … … 235,405 Congo … … … Wood in the rough … … … … 4,907,784 Ivory Coast … … … Wood in the rough … … … … 10,000,000 Ethiopia … … … Coffee … … … … 6,226,455 Raw hides … … … … 3,386,909 Fiji … … … Copra oil … … … … 410,273 Ghana … … … Wood in the rough … … … … 3,450,938 Upper Volta … … … Groundnuts … … … … 456,826 Cotton … … … … 117,290 Niger … … … Groundnuts … … … … 3,627,529 Raw hides … … … … 338,498 Somalia … … … Fresh bananas … … … … 864,604 Raw hides … … … … 423,492 Sudan … … … Rawhides … … … … 1,105,719 Tanzania … … … Cotton … … … … 1,258,054 Togo … … … Coffee … … … … 1,786,882 Uganda … … … Cotton … … … … 1,165,954 Western Samoa … … … Cocoa … … … … 184,652