18. Supports the development of action plans with all countries covered by the neighbourhood policy and insists that the development of human rights, democracy and the rule of law be regarded as a key priority in all national action plans; in this respect, stresses the importance of setting up sub-committees on human rights with all the neighbourhood countries, which should help to evaluate the implementation of action plans; considers that those sub-committees should meet at least once a year and that a regular follow-up should take place at all political levels; calls on the Council and the Commission to fully involve Parliament in ...[+++]this assessment process and is therefore of the opinion that Parliament should be represented in the sub-committees;

18. Supports the development of action plans with all countries covered by the neighbourhood policy and insists that the development of human rights, democracy and the rule of law be regarded as a key priority in all national action plans; in this respect, stresses the importance of setting up sub-committees on human rights with all the neighbourhood countries, which should help to evaluate the implementation of action plans; considers that those sub-committees should meet at least once a year and that a regular follow-up should take place at all political levels; calls on the Council and the Commission to fully involve Parliament in ...[+++]this assessment process and is therefore of the opinion that Parliament should be represented in the sub-committees;

While agreeing to the reproduction of the text of Article 9(2)(a) of the Second ACP-EEC Convention in Article 5(2)(a) of Annex V, the Community reaffirms the interpretation of that text, namely that the ACP States shall grant to the Community treatment no less favourable than that which they grant to developed States under trade agreements where those States do not grant the ACP States greater preferences than those granted by the Community.

The Commission shall inform the ACP States and the ACP-EC Development Finance Cooperation Committee of this delegation of tasks".

The Commission shall inform the ACP States and the ACP-EC Development Finance Cooperation Committee of this delegation of tasks.

(6) Article 37(9) of the Partnership Agreement between the Members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed at Cotonou (Benin) on 23 June 2000 and put into early application by Decision No 1/2000 of the ACP-EC Council of Ministers(3), states that, by the year 2000, the Community will start a process which, by the end of multilateral trade negotiations and at the latest 2005, will allow duty-free access for essentially all products from all LDCs, building on the level of the existing trade provisions of the fourth ACP-EC Convention.