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Senior CARIFORUM Officials advance review of Rules of Origin under the EPA
(CARIFORUM Directorate, CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) – Senior CARIFORUM officials recently met to discuss the simplification of the rules of origin governing trade in goods under the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). The discussion took place during the Meeting of CARIFORUM Preparatory to the Fourth Meeting of the Joint Working Group on Simplification of the Rules of Origin…
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Standards and Quality in CARIFORUM States receive additional support from the European Union
(CARIFORUM Directorate, CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) – On Wednesday May 14, the Oversight Committee of the new Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) project under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Support Programme, funded by the European Union (EU), met to review and validate the Work Programme of the project. Director General of CARIFORUM, Ms. Alexis Downes- Amsterdam attended the…
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CARIFORUM States continue preparations for the Second Five-Year Review of the CARIFORUM-EU EPA
(CARIFORUM Directorate, CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) – CARIFORUM Senior Officials met recently in an Open-Ended Committee to continue preparations for the second joint review of the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Participants at the Fifth Meeting of the Open Ended Committee This engagement took place during the Fifth Meeting of the Committee, chaired by Ms. Margaret Ventura, the…
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CARIFORUM and the EU advance review of rules of origin under the EPA
(CARIFORUM Directorate, Caribbean Community Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) – CARIFORUM Senior officials recently met with counterparts from the European Commission to continue discussions on the simplification of the rules of origin that govern trade in goods under the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Participants attending the Third Meeting of the Joint Working Group on Simplification of the Rules of…
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CARICOM, UK advance cooperation talks
(Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater, Georgetown, Guyana) – Officials from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the United Kingdom (UK) recently advanced discussions on CARICOM-UK cooperation on a range of areas in human and social development; foreign policy and trade. The first meeting of the CARICOM-UK Consultation and Cooperation Mechanism took place in hybrid format at the CARICOM Secretariat Headquarters…
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Remarks by Dr Carla N. Barnett, Secretary-General CARICOM/CARIFORUM, at the Launch of the EU-CARIFORUM Food Security Programme, CARICOM Secretariat, Guyana, 23 November 2023
Honourable Zulfikar Mustapha, Minister of Agriculture of Guyana; Ms. Myriam Ferran, Deputy Director General for International Partnerships, and Other Representatives of the European Commission; Your Excellency Malgorzata Wasilewska, Head of Delegation of the European Union to Barbados, CARICOM/ CARIFORUM, and the OECS; Mr. Joseph Cox, Assistant Secretary General, Economic Integration, Innovation and Development, and Other Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat;…
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CARIFORUM Legal Drafting E-Learning Programme begins
The CARIFORUM Legal Drafting E-Learning Programme has begun and we are please to share the details. For further details please contact the CARIFORUM Directorate at admin.epaunit@caricom.org.
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CARIFORUM launches new classification tool
Today, the CARIFORUM Directorate and the CARIFORUM Intellectual Property and Innovation Project – CarIPI, announce the launch of a new consultation tool, Caribbean TMclass, a regional interface of TMclass, the classification tool developed by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and IP Offices of the EU Member states, and which is already being used by more than 80 IP…
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JOINT COMMUNIQUE: First Meeting of the CARIFORUM – United Kingdom Economic Partnership Agreement’s (EPA) Trade and Development Committee
The first meeting of the CARIFORUM – United Kingdom Economic Partnership Agreement’s (EPA) Trade and Development Committee took place via videoconference on 7 October 2021. The meeting, chaired by CARIFORUM, was attended by representatives from Antigua and Barbuda; Barbados; Belize; The Commonwealth of the Bahamas; The Commonwealth of Dominica; The Dominican Republic; Grenada; The Republic of Guyana; Haiti, Jamaica; Saint…
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EU/PAHO/CARIFORUM Climate & Health Project Builds Capacity with Health Co-Benefits Training
Bridgetown, Barbados, 7 June 2021 (PAHO/WHO) – During a recently held European Union (EU), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), [1]CARIFORUM Health Co-Benefits webinar, representatives from 16 CARIFORUM countries, South America, North America and Europe, received an introduction to four WHO/PAHO tools to support the generation of evidence around the immediate health benefits from climate mitigation. The more common mitigation strategies…
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