Assessment Criteria for a Sustainability Impact Assessment in Europe

2007 ◽  
pp. 191-209
Author(s):  
Raimund Bleischwitz
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Assessment Criteria ◽  
Sustainability Impact Assessment

A 'Sustainability Impact Assessment' of the Economic Partnership Agreements: Challenging the Participatory Process

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clair Gammage
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
Country Ownership ◽  
African Caribbean ◽  
Economic Partnership ◽  
Participation Process ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Trade Preferences ◽  
Sustainability Impact Assessment ◽  
The Eu

For the past decade the EU has been preparing to end its tradition of preferential and partially reciprocal trade with the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) countries. With the expiry of trade preferences in 2007 under the Cotonou Agreement, these trade partners have agreed to negotiate Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) and trade on reciprocal terms, in a bid to preserve their special relationship. A Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) was commissioned by the EU to engage stakeholders in discussion about the real and potential challenges of the new trade regime facing ACP countries. This paper examines the participatory process of the EPA negotiations, in particular the Sustainability Impact Assessment, through the lens of country ownership and deliberative democracy. Discussion of the participation process will be twofold: analysing whether the issues raised in the public sphere are reflected in the CARIFORUM-EC EPA, and the extent to which the SIA is legitimised through public participation.

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