ped

A2 Analysis, Collation, Fusion and Production, Exploitation, Dissemination [ A2 ACF & PED ]

developing country [ less developed country | less advanced country | underdeveloped country ]

passport-on-line form [ passport online form | POL form ]

LDC debts

first in, last out | FILO

developing country | emergent country

anti-personnel mine | pressure mine

European Development Pole | EDP [Abbr.]

This purpose of this Regulation is to achieve the objectives of the " Programme for Action: Accelerated action on HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB in the context of poverty reduction" by setting up a system enabling pharmaceutical producers to sell developing countries essential medicines at reduced prices while ensuring that these products do not find their way back to the EU.

to see to it that a significant proportion of EU budgetary aid for geographic programmes to developing countries is allocated directly to local authorities, in consultation with central governments, in order to improve governance of aid in developing countries, to strengthen local democracy and to improve access for populations to Community funds, in accordance with the principles laid down in the European Consensus on Development,

13. Regrets that, to date, local authorities in developing countries have only been involved in the implementation of projects and not in the definition of development policies, even in ACP countries, despite the revision of the Cotonou Agreement which places political dialogue with local authorities at the heart of the partnership; undertakes, therefore, to carry out a detailed political follow-up with associations of elected representatives of the implementation of the DCI within both the EU and developing countries, in particular by examining country strategy papers, and to inform local authorities of new opportunities open to them a ...[+++]nd, in the event of difficulties on the ground raised by local authorities, to forward information to the Commission;

24. Welcomes the agreement reached on starting negotiations in the field of facilitating trade, which will improve the export capacity of the developing countries, and recognises that the EU has made a gesture towards the developing countries by removing the other Singapore Issues from the negotiations, but underlines at the same time the potential to negotiate these issues within a multilateral framework, in the interests of developed and developing countries alike; asks that the principles agreed on in Annex D to the Decision be respected, particularly with regard to special and differential treatment and aid for the developing countries, taking due account of transition periods ...[+++] for applying the commitments and compatibility with those countries" administrative and institutional capacity;