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Specifics of the Caribbean economies in the context of Economic Partnership Agreements and the relations with the EU
Totkovičová, Lucia ; Štěrbová, Ludmila (advisor) ; Richter, Stanislav (referee)
Diploma thesis deals with the relations between the European Union and the Caribbean, principally with agreements forming their legal and institutional framework. It is theoretically based on the official rules of international trade agreed by the members of the World Trade Organization and on the Articles GATT and GATS. The first part gives information about the Caribbean region, its position in the world economy and about regional intergration, which is the corner-stone of Caribbean's external relations. The second chapter comprises analysis of the specifics of Caribbean countries that form their interests in the international field. Relations with the European Union, agreements that deal with them and specific treatment of developing countries are the subjects of chapter three. The thesis focuses on the Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and CARIFORUM. Emphasis is on the basic provisions of this agreement on trade, compliance with WTO rules, impact on the Caribbean economies as well as the criticism and evaluation of its benefits. Attention is given to the development aspect of EPA. Last but not least, the thesis refers to the future cooperation under the provisions of this regional agreement.
Economic Partnership Agreements - comparison with the Cotonou agreement
Totkovičová, Lucia ; Černá, Iveta (advisor) ; Taušer, Josef (referee)
Bachelor thesis characterizes trade and partnership agreements between European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific group of states in the context of World Trade Organization's legal texts. The thesis focuses on the basic principles of multilateral trading system and special treatment of developing countries. It chronologically concerns itself with close trade relations and particular agreements between the EU and the ACP group. There are described various preferential trade regimes applied by the EU towards developing countries, primarily the ACP. Because of contradiction of the EU-ACP preferential agreements to WTO rules it was necessary to come to re evaluation of EU-ACP relations and negotiations of new Economic Partnership Agreements, called EPAs. The main accent is put on analysis of EPAs, incentives to negotiations with ACP regions, problems connected with it and mainly the conformity with WTO provisions. Last but not least the thesis describes the impact of EPAs on ACP regions, sums up its strengths and provides information about the future of EU-ACP cooperation.

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