Translation of "Groupe ad hoc spécial de la mise en oeuvre de l'Accord " (French → English) :

Ministers will further focus on the importance of the development aspects of the Round and the need to make progress in agreeing provisions giving developing countries special and differential treatment and on implementation of existing agreements.

Operations to meet immediate and unforeseeable requirements generated by sudden natural or man-made disasters, such as floods, famine, migration of large groups of people towards mine-afflicted areas, sudden peace settlements, or comparable situations, as well as urgent assistance in the implementation of peace agreements, shall be deemed to necessitate emergency action.

On the occasion of the second Brussels Meeting of the Consultative Group on Guatemala, the European Union congratulates the Guatemalan people, its constitutional and political representatives and all sectors of civil society on their efforts to implement the Peace Accords.

27. Welcomes the important role played by the Union in the San José Conferences and the Rio Group, in ministerial meetings with various Latin American countries; expresses its full support for the summit of European and Latin American heads of state and government to be held in 1999; reiterates its desire to establish a global action programme with Latin America, in line with the growing importance and influence of the region;

5. In the period leading up to the definitive adoption of that Regulation, the Community and its Member States agree on the following: (i) Measures to be carried out under the EPRD will be mainly in the following fields: education and training, health, urban and rural development, support for the private sector, in particular SMEs, and for regional integration, strengthening of institutions (including support for the public service) and organisation of local communities, democratisation and defence of human rights (ii) The procedures for implementing the EPRD will be as follows; dialogue with the new government on sectoral and geographical priorities, in the framework of a structured approach to development; maintenance of diversified coo ...[+++]peration coordinated by the South African government, also involving provincial and local public administrations and agencies, NGOs and local communities, international organizations, institutes and private operators, and calls for local contributions and co-financing to implement measures; simplification and gradual alignment of procedures for allocating resources and implementing the EPRD on those of other European Union development programmes (iii) The Commission will in the meantime continue to submit its financing proposals to the Group of Experts from the Member States responsible for implementing the Community's Special Programme for South Africa.

The bodies which deal with the implementation of the Agreement are the following: - the Association Council which meets at ministerial level and supervises the implementation of the Agreement. - the Association Committee which meets at senior civil servant level and deals with the concrete implementation of the various provisions of the Agreement. - the ten Sub-Committees and working groups that assist the Association Committee in the implementation of the Agreement with regard to specific areas have met on numerous occasions.