EU to denounce the ACP Sugar Protocol

Sugar has been high on the agenda this month in Brussels. On September 12, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson, EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel and EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel met with ministers from key sugar producing countries in the African, Caribbean and Pacific region to discuss upcoming changes in the EU's sugar import regime. The meeting with ministers from Fiji, Mauritius and Guyana took place in parallel to the European Union's ongoing negotiations of the Economic Partnership Agreements with the ACP.

Meanwhile, the Trade Commissioner has published an article entitled, "Why has the EU proposed to end the EU-ACP Sugar Protocol?".