Translation of "overseas department and territory " (English → French) :

The particular geographical situation and the remoteness of the French overseas departments impose additional transport costs in supplying essential products for human consumption, for processing and as agricultural inputs. In addition, objective factors arising as a result of insularity impose further constraints on economic operators and producers in these islands that severely handicap their activities, as do other factors such as the impossibility of economies of scale, limited water and energy resources and particularly high production costs . This is true particularly in the case of the supply of cereals, which are not and cannot be produced in the ...[+++] overseas departments, rendering them dependent on external sources of supply. These handicaps can be alleviated by lowering the price of these essential products. It is therefore appropriate to introduce specific supply arrangements with a view to ensuring supply to the overseas departments from local production and to mitigating the additional costs of the remoteness and insularity of these departments.

Single national constituency (including overseas departments and territories)

The United Kingdom is preparing to adopt a system of regional proportional representation, while in France, the Minister of European Affairs, Mr Moscovici, has presented to the Prime Minister a proposal to introduce a system of regional proportional representation in which the regions would be grouped in pairs (with the exception of Ile-de-France and the Overseas Départements and Territories).

Joint Declaration on cooperation between ACP States and the neighbouring overseas countries and territories and French overseas departments

As in Lomé IV, the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement stipulates that the funding in question is to be added to the funding for the ACP States under the Agreement and that particular attention will be paid to speeding up economic diversification so as to encourage complementarity of production and intensify cooperation and development between the ACP States themselves and between them, the overseas countries and territories and the French overseas departments.

This cooperation has focused since 1989 on relations between the French overseas departments, the overseas countries and territories and the ACP States.