d. Agreement in Nairobi reaffirming WTO Members’ commitment to conclude the DDA in line with its development mandate.
(xv) Examination of all types of NTBs in developed country markets impacting on developing country exports.
3. We call upon Members to affirm their commitment to the DDA and its mandates, in particular on core areas of importance to developing countries.
4. We emphasise that future negotiations on agriculture and NAMA tariff cuts must be commensurate with meaningful cuts in domestic support and that flexibilities shall be accorded to developing countries, especially LDCs and SVEs.
5. We acknowledge that agriculture is of critical importance to the economies of the majority of the ACP Group of States and therefore reaffirm that special and differential treatment for developing countries shall be an integral element of the agricultural negotiations, taking into account the possible negative effects of non-implementation of commitments by developed countries on ACP States.
6. On domestic support, we reiterate the importance we attach to achieving meaningful cuts in Overall Trade Distorting Support (OTDS), Aggregate Measurement of Support (AMS), and disciplines to prevent box shifting. The AMS and de minimis flexibilities for developing countries, in particular LDCs, SVEs, and NFIDCs in accordance with Rev.4, should be preserved and the integrity of Article 6.2 of the Agreement on Agriculture shall be maintained.
7. On export competition, as per Rev.4, we reiterate our support for the progressive and parallel elimination of all forms of export subsidies and export measures with equivalent effect, including in the area of food aid, while taking into account problems faced by developing countries, and urge that the flexibilities currently envisaged in existing texts be maintained including those for LDCs and SVEs.
8. On Public Stockholding for Food Security Purposes, we call on Members to work expeditiously towards finding an appropriate permanent solution.
9. We reaffirm the need to preserve in the NAMA negotiations, at minimum, the core flexibilities contained in Rev.3 that fully take into account ACP States development priorities and that LDCs shall be exempted from taking any tariff reductions. With respect to the current NAMA tariff reduction formula; we note that, many WTO Members, including ACP States, have stated that the Swiss formula is not do-able.
10. We also reiterate the need for any agreement to include treatment of preference erosion.
11. In continued negotiations, we urge that tariff reduction for those developing Members that are part of a customs union of developing countries which may include LDCs and SVEs shall be no more than the average tariff reduction of all the other Members of the customs union and shall in no case result in final tariffs that are below the Common External Tariff. The tariff reduction commitments shall also be moderated to avoid widening divergences in tariff bindings amongst the Members of such customs unions.
12. With respect to non-tariff barriers, WTO Members should refrain from imposing measures on trade from ACP States, that amount to discriminatory or unnecessary barriers to trade. Technical assistance should be provided to support developing country initiatives aimed at ensuring ACP participation in relevant standard setting processes and to address other non-tariff barriers to trade.
13. The ACP Group of States identified non-exhaustive sectors and modes of supply of interest to our Members in JOB/TNC/46.
14. We recall that Members may decide how to proceed on their own offers taking into account their particular development objectives and offers from other Members. At the same time we reiterate key principles and flexibilities embedded in the General Agreement on Trade in Services, the Negotiating Guidelines and Procedures, the Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration and its Annex C.
15. In domestic regulations negotiations, we recall that developing countries have the flexibility in their own discretion with regard to taking on any new commitments, consistent with their right to regulate and development policy objectives. To further the development component of the DDA, developed Members should take on commitments in qualification requirements and procedures to facilitate developing country services market access. We also call upon Members to reaffirm that LDCs shall not be required to take on any new commitments.
16. The ACP Group continues to support TRIPS negotiations on the basis of proposals contained in TN/C/W/52.
17. We urge Members to take note that LDCs share in world merchandise and services trade is miniscule and they suffer staggering current account deficits. Therefore, we emphasise the need for value-added and binding decisions based on proposals from the LDC Group, to be taken at the Tenth WTO Ministerial Conference (MC10) in Nairobi as a matter of priority toward the real and greater integration of the LDCs into the multilateral trading system.
18. WTO mandates in areas of interest to the ACP Group of States, should be reinvigorated, in particular the development component across all on-going work programmes and deliberations in the relevant WTO bodies.
19. We reaffirm Paragraph 35 of the Doha Declaration and paragraph 41 of the Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration. We urge the WTO Membership to continue to address, in a substantive and meaningful manner, the particular structural disadvantages and inherent vulnerabilities of small, vulnerable economies and call for due regard to be given to the priorities of SVEs in all areas of the negotiations to ensure their further integration into the multilateral trading system. We also reiterate that the WTO must deliver flexibilities for SVEs as part of any development outcome.
20. We welcome the recent accession to the WTO of ACP State, the Republic of Seychelles, and applaud the completion of the accession negotiations for ACP State, Liberia.
21. Acceding ACP States should make concessions commensurate with their size and development needs and current WTO rules and standards. We urge the WTO and developed countries to provide technical assistance and resources to support acceding ACP States in the process of accession negotiations. In addition, we urge the implementation of the General Council's Decision of 25th July 2012 on Accession of LDCs aimed at strengthening, streamlining and operationalising the 2002 LDCs Accession Guidelines, pursuant to the 2011 MC8 Decision.
22. The ACP Group of States welcomes the launch of the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) phase 2 on 1st July 2015, as well as the EIF Pledging Conference to be held during the Tenth WTO Ministerial Conference (MC10) in Nairobi. In this regard, we urge donors to come forward with substantial pledges in Nairobi.
23. We appreciate the effort of some donors to sustain their aid efforts. We urge donors to continue to support the efforts of our Members, to integrate into the world trading system, by directing aid for trade flows to areas of the highest priority as identified by the beneficiaries, including infrastructure, productive capacity, trade finance, connectivity, and costs of adjustment. This assistance should be in the form of new funding, without diverting from existing bilateral assistance in other areas, on a sustainable basis.
24. We are seriously concerned about the potential for erosion of the gains made as a result of graduation of some of our Members. Therefore, we call for the abandonment of per capita income statistics as the only measure to determine eligibility for Aid for Trade for WTO Members and recommend the use of different criteria.
25. We support the extension of the decision for MC1o to maintain the current practice of not imposing customs duties on electronic transmissions, and to continue the electronic commerce work programme with special attention to the situation in developing countries, particularly in least-developed country Members and least connected countries. In this regard, we also urge the recognition of the principles of non-discrimination, predictability, and transparency.
26. We also call on WTO Members to agree in Nairobi to make permanent the moratorium on the application of Subparagraphs 1(b) and 1(c) of Article XXIII of GATT 1994 on non-violation and situation complaints (NVCs) to the TRIPS Agreement.
27. We underline the importance of the Tenth WTO Ministerial Conference (MC10) to be held in Nairobi and look forward, therefore, to effectively and constructively participate in the deliberations of the conference. In addition, we call on all Members to ensure that any proposed Ministerial declaration for Nairobi is developed in a transparent, inclusive and consensus based process.
28. We call upon Members to reaffirm in Nairobi, the Ministerial declarations and General Council Decisions relevant to the Doha mandates; and to take concrete steps to conclude the remaining issues in the DDA, with development as a key component.
29. We further call upon Members to ensure that post-Nairobi, all unresolved issues in the DDA on the development mandate are addressed and yield specific development milestones to conclude the DDA as soon as possible.
30. We urge the Tenth WTO Ministerial Conference (MC10) in Nairobi to give due consideration to the present Declaration.
 With a binding coverage of non-agricultural tariff lines of less than 35 percent.
 Comprised of the ACP, African and LDC Groups.