Translation of "Asian and Pacific Development Administration Centre " (English → French) :

Cambodia did not sign or ratify any of the international agreements governing fisheries, inter alia, the Unclos, the UNFSA, the FAO Compliance Agreement, but it has ratified the 1958 Geneva Convention on the High Seas (22) and acceded to the 1958 Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone (23) and it has accepted the Regional Plan of Action to promote responsible fishing practices including combating IUU fishing in the Asia-Pacific Fisheries Committee (APFIC) (APFIC RPOA) (24), as well as the Regional Guidelines for responsible fishing operations in Southeast Asia (RGRFO-SEA) (25) issued by the Southeast ...[+++]Asian Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec) (26).

The justification often cited by the Commission that this is development aid for a Pacific State consisting of a measure to encourage investment in that state does not really hold water when one notes that the factories built locally to take advantage of the ‘windfall’ derogation from the rules of origin have been equipped in a totally rudimentary fashion, employ mostly Asian staff brought in from other countries in the region rather than local workers ...[+++], pay pathetic wages and are suspected of having a negative environmental impact.

A recent major study on long-term developments in international trade has predicted that by 2050 the centre of gravity of the world economy will have shifted to the Asia Pacific region, with ASEAN emerging as the world's largest exporter.

Whereas the rules governing the administration of financial and technical assistance to, and economic cooperation with, the Asian and Latin American developing countries should be established;

As regards cooperation in the field of poverty reduction, the EU must contribute to sustainable development and poverty alleviation in the least prosperous Asian countries by enhancing coordination between the Member States and the Commission of the administration of development assistance so as to enable these countries to participate in growth.

In order to promote European trade and investment in Asia, it is important to get the Asian partners to change their legislation and administrative regulations which hamper the development of European trade and direct investments.