Report from the Commission on the operation in 1997 of the export earnings stabilisation system under the fourth ACP-EC Convention as revised by the Agreement signed in Mauritius
COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES Brussels, 23. 09. 1998 COM(1998) 535 final • 1- V"-". +: -ijii i. ; REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION on the operation in 1997 of the export earnings stabilisation system under the f. • fourth ACP-EC Convention as revised by the Agreement signed in Mauritius I. INTRODUCTION 1. Article 31(3) of the Internal Agreement on the financing and administration of Community aid states: "Each year the Commission shall draw up a comprehensive report for the Member States on the operation of the system of stabilisation of export earnings and the use made by the ACP States of the funds transferred. " 2. This report covers the activities of the ACP-EC institutions and the administration of the system in 1997, paying special attention to the allocation of transfers for 1996, the second year of application of Stabex under the fourth ACP-EC Convention as revised by the Agreement signed in Mauritius. For the third year of application in a row, it has been possible to cover all transfers. 2- II. ACTIVITIES OF THE ACP-EC INSTITUTIONS 3. The operation of Stabex was discussed at the 44th meeting of the ACP-EC Committee of Ambassadors (Brussels, 21 March 1997). 4. The Committee approved the procedure proposed by the Commission for Stabex transfers in respect of the 1996 year of application, i. e. that the Commission would adopt by 31 July 1997 at the latest, pursuant to Article 207(3) of the Convention, the decisions on all transfers in respect of the 1996 year of application on condition that the decisions would not come into effect until the revised Lomé Convention came into force. 3- III. TRANSFERS FOR THE 1996 YEAR OF APPLICATION 5. Calculation of the transfer bases For the 1996 year of application, the Commission Sound 2C i eligible for 27 transfers under the Slabcx arrangements. The 2 groups for which losses of earnings eligible for compofi^uik;^ listed in Table 1 of this report (see page 29). \ €f States to be 7 country/product rVjjiC accorded are After calculating iie reduction provided for in Article 197(3) and (4) of the Convention, the transfer bases totalled ECU 87 570 927. Under Article 204 of the Convention the transfer basis calculated from the Community's import statistics is reduced to the level of the transfer basis calculated from the statistics on the exports to all destinations of the ACP States concerned, where the latter amount is less than the former. Reductions under Article 203 Trends in marketed output, total exports and exports to the Community of the products in question meant that, in many instances, consultations under Article 203 of the Convention had to be held between the Commission and the representatives of the ACP States. The consultations resulted in the following reductions being made: 7. 1. Reductions applied as a result of significant changes in trends in marketed output of the product in question. ACP State Product Reduction Amount in ECU % of transfer basis (TB) 77 384 181 445 2 525 216 1216 233 36 326 4 288 507 499 168 1 245 754 905 491 129 817 14. 2 29. 9 40. 3 57. 0 29. 1 57. 4 55. 3 37. 4 9. 7 39. 5 Gambia Togo Sierra Leone Guinea-Bissau Burundi Comoros Saint Vincent Vanuatu Cotton Shrimps Coffee Coffee Timber Coffee Uncured hides Vanilla Bananas Cocoa - 4- 7. 2. Reductions applied as a result of a decline in exports to all destinations as a proportion of marketed output: ACP State Product Reduction Rwanda Comoros Kiribati Pyrethrum Cloves Vanilla Copra Amount in ECU % of transfer basis (TB) 106 766 214 063 478 146 115 140 23. 6 43. 3 14. 3 31. 6 7. 3. Reductions applied as a result of a decline in the ratio of exports to the Community to other exports (all destinations): ACP State Product Reduction Gambia Rwanda Comoros Shrimps Pyrethrum Cloves 8. Calculating the transfers Amount in % of transfer ECU basis (TB) 95 896 121611 76 519 15. 8 29. 2 15. 4 Following consultation, where appropriate and as required under Articles 202 and 203 of the Convention, the total amount of eligible transfers was therefore calculated as ECU 73 584 806. As calculated in line with the provisions of Article 191 of the revised Convention and the annexed second Financial Protocol, the annual instalment for the 1996 year of application is approximately ECU 360 million. This means that all transfers eligible in 1996 can be covered, but the funds will not be available until the revised Convention comes into force, which will not be until the second Financial Protocol is ratified. In the light of Decision No 6/95 of the ACP-EC Council of Ministers on transitional measures to be applied until the entry into force of the revised Convention, the Commission decision fixing Stabex transfers for the 1996 year of application therefore had to be taken with suspensive effect before 31 July lc)97 subject to the entry into force of the revised Convention and its ratification by the ACP State due to receive the transfer. 5- 9. Results by recipient country and product Table 2 (page 30) gives the results by recipient country. As in 1994 and 1995, the Caribbean countries are the main recipients, their earnings losses on bananas being due to a number of causes such as bad weather conditions and structural problems in the sector. 10. The balance per product (see Table 3, page 31) shows that bananas, at 26. 9%, are still responsible for the largest share of the transfers. In many cases the transfers made represent a substantial addition to the recipient State's total export earnings, examples being: ACP States Product Saint Vincent Bananas Dominica Comoros Bananas Essential oils Vanilla Transfers as a % of total 1996 earnings from the product concerned 21. 3 18. 4 16. 9 32. 8 11. However, a more precise measure of the effect of the additional Stabex revenue on the sector showing a loss of earnings can be obtained by comparing the amounts transferred with the earnings from the products for which the transfer is requested: ACP States Product Senegal Gambia Groundnuts Cotton Sierra Leone Coffee Togo Comoros Comoros Rwanda Tanzania Coffee Essential oils Vanilla Pyrethrum Tea Transfers as a % of total 19S earnings from the product concerned 10. 0 53. 0 82. 0 51. 3 62. 7 76. 0 94. 0 21. 1 6- in min m Éiiiiiiimn These proportions can be high, especially when exports of the product in question are fairly low and fluctuate substantially from year to year. When low market prices combine with temporary difficulties in the sector, losses of revenue can be severe and give rise to relatively large transfers. Even when export revenue from a particular product is high, the transfers make a significant contribution. IV. USE OF TRANSFERS 12. Framework of Mutual Obligations 12. 1 BENIN Application year: 1995 Product: Palm products. ECU 205 442 Date of payment: 09. 10. 96 FMO signed: 18. 08. 97 Summary: The Stabex funds will be used to finance: 1. activities relating to the renewal of village plantations of selected oil palms: - practical training for private nurserymen - artificial pollination and production of dry seeds - production of germinated seeds - supply of seedlings to nurseries - supervision of planters 2. export support activities. 8- 12. 2 BURKINA FASO Application year: 1994 Product: Cotton ECU 13 916 449 Date of payment: 22. 12. 95 FMO signed: 23. 12. 96 (ECU 7 000 000) Summary involves supporting Community aid will take the form of budget support under the structural the in the government adjustment programme. This implementation of the transport sector adjustment programme and in the restructuring of the cotton industry. ECU 4. 65 million will be allocated to routine road maintenance. The remaining ECU 2. 35 million will be disbursed directly to the Treasury subject to compliance with the special conditions relating to restructuring of the cotton industry. 12. 3 BURKINA FASO Application years: 1994 and 1995 balance of 1 st Protocol • Products: Cotton Hides and skins Balance of 1st Protocol 1994 1995 ECU ECU ECU 13 916 449 658 848 261 077 Date of payment: 22. 12. 95(1994) 05. 03. 97(1995) 05. 03. 97 (balance) FMO signed: 22. 07. 97 (ECU 7 836 374) Summary: Under the 1994 Stabex FMO signed on 23 December 1996, ECU 7 million was allocated to the structural adjustment programme. The present FMO concerns a totalofECU7 836 734. In November 1995, the Government of Burkina Faso, together with the joint French, World Bank and Community mission conducted an analytical review of the first phase of the Agricultural Sector Adjustment Programme (PASA I). The implementation of PAS A II reflected the need to progress from a phase of reform to one of growth. The Burkinabé Government has therefore set the following overall objectives with the aim of stepping up and diversifying exports: - revival of cotton production - improving livestock production - promoting diversification programmes (oil seeds and gum arabic). - 1 0- 12. 4 CÔTE D'IVOIRE Application years: Products : 1993 additional I balance 1 st Protoco 1990-1993 Cocoa products Coffee products Cocoa products Coffee products Cotton Timber Interest 1990-1993 1993 add. 1993 add. balance balance balance balance ECU ECU ECU ECU ECU ECU 354 238 945 761 5 242 883 12 969 520 326 031 1 278 416 CFAF 3 300 000 000 Date of payment: 16. 09. 96 (1993 add. ) 10. 12. 96 (balance 1 st Protocol) FMO signed: 24. 03. 97 Summary: The activities proposed in the current rider to the 1993 Stabex FMO are in keeping with the reduction of state involvement in productive activity and the development of a more intensive, diversified, competitive and sustainable system of agricultural production. The main aims are to: 1. 2. 3. 4. increase the long-term competitiveness of the coffee and cocoa sectors by means of technical assistance for continuing the reforms started in 1990, technical support to the professional associations most involved in overall management of these sectors and technical and financial support to the cooperative movement to help build organisational and financial capacity in the sectors; improve living conditions in rural areas through the construction of priority infrastructure works funded by the FRAR (Regional Fund for Rural Development) which, from the outset, has acted as an instrument of intervention in the field of land use planning which can be geared to the requirements of the rural community; build the capacity to diversify activities in rural areas by boosting the sheep and cattle-farming sector and fostering the development of tourism in rural areas by promoting supporting implementation of the National Environmental Programme; reserves and national parks and improve marketing of food products so as to boost producer incomes, increase supply and ensure supplies in urban areas at reasonable prices while cutting back on imported foodstuffs. 11 12. 5 GHANA Application years : 1992 1993 Products: Cocoa products Cocoa products Cocoa products 1992 1993 1993 add. 4 883 722 ECU ECU 15 738 690 642 396 ECU Dates of payment: 21. 11. 94 ( 1992) 29. 11. 94(1993) 05. 09. 96 (1993 add. ) FMO signed: 27. 02. 97 Summary: The substantial contributions to the COCOBOD (cocoa state marketing board) retrenchment programme under the 1990 and 1991 STABEX allocations reduced COCOBOD's costs and contributed to an increase of the share of the cocoa smallholder in the export value. The major thrust of the 1992/1993 allocations is to maintain and possibly increase the 50% share of export value to be given to cocoa producers and to support other measures to increase smallholder incomes. More specific results will be: 1. 2. 3. 4. reduced marketing costs through the improvement of rural feeder roads firstly in the main cocoa producing areas of Ghana (the so called cocoa roads) and secondly, in order to support diversification, in other areas with agricultural potential and/or production, with a special focus on the Western Region; diversification of crop production towards products with export potential in support of Government's policy to reduce export dependence on cocoa; improved productivity and income of smallholder cocoa producers; improved employment opportunities for retrenched COCOBOD workers through a continuation of the retraining scheme. During this process, COCOBOD is expected further to reduce its cost as part of the reform programme. Progress is expected to be made towards liberalisation of external marketing and the transformation of COCOBOD towards an institution the main tasks of which are monitoring and coordination of cocoa operations, quality control through certification, research, disease control. - 1 2- 12. 6 GRENADA Application year: 1994 Products: Cocoa Bananas Nutmeg and mace ECU 87 769 ECU 1 090 639 803 245 ECU Date of payment: 18. 10. 1995 FMO signed: 05. 05. 1997 Summary: Stabex 1994 transfers in favour of Grenada are intended to be used in the three sectors concerned for: - on-farm incentives to increased production; - appropriate price-support and the removal of bottle-necks in agricultural production; - development of the domestic agricultural sector and its diversification and improvement of the nutritional status of the population, and - improvement of the quality of rural life in order to reduce the rate of the rural- urban drift. The Government of Grenada is committed to the strengthening of the national economy, thus putting the country on the road to sustainable development. -13. 7 KIRIBATI Application year: 1993 Product: Copra Date of payment: 31. 03. 1995 FMO signed: 25. 06. 1997 Summary: ECU 36 024 The archipelago's size is the main cause of problems in the sector as it results in very high production and export costs. Since the transfer is quite low, it will not be used to support producer prices but to purchase the equipment which the KCCS (Kiribati Copra Cooperation Society) requires in order to meet its obligations for the marketing of copra. 14 12. 8 MADAGASCAR Application years: 1991, 1992 and 1993 in part Product: Coffee Vanilla Essential oils Coffee Vanilla Cloves Coffee Cloves Coffee Vanilla Cloves } }1991 } } }1992 } }1993 } ECU 16 585 084 ECU 9 980 228 ECU 4 469 771 (= 4 294 485+ 175 286/add. ) } Balance } 1st }Fin. Prot. ECU 2 908 254 Dates of payment: 19. 02. 1993(1991) 30. 08. 1994(1992) 05. 01. 1995 and 09. 09. 1996 (1993) 19. 03. 1997 (balance from 1st Financial Protocol) FMO signed: Summary: 13. 12. 1997 (for the use of a maximum of ECU 15 250 000 out of a total ofECU38 443 561)> It has been agreed to use the Stabex funds in accordance with the objectives of developing traditional exports and diversification. Funds allocated under the FMO are mainly intended to: - improve production conditions, product quality and producer incomes; - enable exporting sectors to maintain competitiveness; - help open up access to areas of production by rehabilitating roads and bridges; - help set up an action fund to assist certain activities of traders; - develop, research and administer quality standards for exported products and ensure their implementation; - contribute to disease control and (he creation of five new abattoirs; 1 N B. ECU 12 million out of the total of ECU 38 443 561 has already been earmarked to an FMO signed on 3 October 1996. - 1 5- assist the national authorising officer's support unit and the Stabex support team in the technical and financial implementation of projects and programmes under the FMO. - 1 8- 12. 9 MALAWI Application year: 1994 Product: Tea + balance from 1 st Financial Protocol ECU ECU 4 183 470 291542 Date of payment: 02. 01. 1996 (23. 12. 1996) FMO signed: 11. 08. 1997 Summary: The projects on which the above funds will be used aim at: - promoting agricultural diversification away from traditional export crops and/or agroprocessing for both import substitution and exports, and - improving the accessibility of the major tea producing areas through gravelling and grading of rural access roads, in order to facilitate efficient transportation of agricultural produce from points of production to processing and marketing centres. The Government of Malawi is implementing a number of macro-economic and structural adjustment measures supported by the IMF. In the agricultural sector, the Government liberalised input and commodity prices and lifted a ban on exports of agricultural commodities. This is expected to lead to flexible and diverse cropping patterns, thereby creating new opportunities for agricultural diversification and agroprocessing. 17 12. 10 UGANDA Application years: 1993 and 1995 Products: Dates of payment: coffee hides and skins tea 1993 1993 1995 21. 07. 1995 (coffee) 1993 04. 09. 1996 (hides) 16. 06. 1997 1995 FMO signed: 14. 08. 1997 Summary: ECU 44 434 124 ECU 1 813 639 430 212 ECU As a result of talks between the Ugandan Government and the Commission and discussion of the problems affecting export products, it has been decided that reforms and changes are necessary to improve farming of export products and the agri-food processing sector. Stabex 1993 and 1995 funds will be used to support development of the rural economic infrastructure, primary education in rural areas and the agri-food processing sector. To ensure effective implementation, part of the transfer will be earmarked for appropriate measures, e. g. technical assistance for effective administration and regular payments. 18 12. 11 PAPUA NEW GUINEA Application year: 1994 Product: Cocoa products ECU 7 271 542 Date of payment: 20. 08. 1996 FMO signed: 08. 10. 1996 Summary: The main cause of the losses sustained is the drop in world prices for these products which resulted in planters losing interest and, in some cases, giving up farming. The funds will be used to continue ongoing projects which form part of the overall policy and are designed to stabilise the Government's external position under the second structural adjustment programme. Four main sectors are concerned: - improving performance in the cocoa and copra sectors, including rehabilitating infrastructure in the provinces of East New Britain and North Solomons; - improving coffee quality; - ensuring a healthy investment climate by means of price stabilisation; - diversification measures. -19 12. 12 RWANDA Application year: 1991 Products: Coffee Hides and skins Pyrethrum Date of payment: 25. 08. 1992 FMO signed: 18. 04. 1997 Summary ECU 9 184 660 ECU 936 227 11 269 ECU The events of 1994 turned the country upside down. The loss of human resources and the looting and destruction of infrastructure brought the economy to a standstill, causing output to plummet. This state of emergency made it imperative to get production facilities back on their feet, including export sectors. The three products giving rise to transfers for the 1991 marketing year are coffee, hides and skins, and pyrethrum. When allocating these resources, priority was given to all agricultural export sectors. There is a special emphasis on tea, even though this sector has generated no transfer, owing to the abrupt halt in production as a result of the war and its importance to the Rwandan economy. This approach is consistent with the rehabilitation objectives laid down in the first emergency rehabilitation programme. 20 12. 13 SAMOA Application year: 1993 Products: Copra products Oilcake Date of payment: 20. 10. 1994 FMO signed: 27. 02. 1997 ECU 111 589 ECU 16 602 Summary The main causes of the loss of earnings were unstable international copra prices and the drop in production since cyclones Val and Ofa, the adverse effects of which have still to be overcome. Transfers will be used to continue activities begun under the earlier FMOs, among them the revitalisation and diversification of agriculture and the rehabilitation and maintenance of basic infrastructure. 21 - 12. 14 TANZANIA Application years: 1991 and 1992 Product: Cotton ECU 2 186 054 Dates of payment: 29. 12. 1992(1991) 24. 08. 1995(1992) FMO signed: 16. 10. 1997 Summary Stabex transfers for cotton are very important because there is very little aid for this sector. The transfers will be used to improve the quality of the product, inter alia by introducing new varieties, and carry out general research in the sector, including looking at ways of improving the working environment. 22 12. 15 TANZANIA Application year: 1992 Product: Cloves Date of payment: 24. 08. 1995 FMO signed: 11. 11. 1996 Summary ECU 183 770 The production of cloves in Zanzibar varies from year to year, with sales ranging from 1 300 to 12 000 tonnes over the past five years. The world market is reckoned to be able to absorb about 5500 tonnes a year. Another problem is Indonesia's self-sufficiency in cloves, which has put an end to imports from Zanzibar. The Government considers it necessary to promote rice production with a view to achieving self-sufficiency in the long term. The Stabex transfers are intended to improve the irrigation of rain-fed paddies, train growers in more advanced methods and carry out a study into growing other rice varieties. - 2 3- 12. 16 TANZANIA Application years: 1992 and 1993 Products: Coffee Coffee 1992 1993 Date of payment: 24. 08. 1995 FMO signed: 09. 10. 1996 ECU 12 528 623 ECU 8 300 103 Summary The overall objective is to improve the quality and quantity of production. The measures funded complement activities financed by the national indicative programme or other donors. More specific objectives include: - - - repairing infrastructure necessary for coffee production, taking measures and launching activities to improve the quality of the coffee, facilitating operators" access to credit for the purchase of inputs and equipment for producing coffee. 24 12. 17 TOGO Application year: 1990 Products: 1990 Cocoa 1990 Coffee Interest 1989 Stabex balance 1989 1724 659 ECU 3 505 259 ECU ECU 1 521 822 CFAF 954 825 643 Date of payments: 08. 05. 92 FMO signed: 30. 09. 97 Summary In September 1992 the national authorising officer approved a draft FMO governing Stabex transfers for the 1990 application year. The decision to suspend cooperation between the European Union and Togo meant the draft was never approved by the Community authorities. Pending a scheme specifically designed to improve the competitiveness of cash- crop sectors, the European Commission and the Government of Togo have agreed to give priority to meeting pressing needs in the areas of basic education and primary health care in rural areas by funding priority investment, equipment and operating costs figuring in the 1997 budget and complementary schemes aimed at paving the way for the implementation of the Government's policy in the cash- crop sectors and facilitating the future implementation of a national regional development and decentralisation policy. In the health sector Stabex funding will help rehabilitate and equip a third of those first-tier public health facilities (dispensaries and medical welfare centres) considered operational (i. e. possessing at least one nursing auxiliary) to provide basic care. It will also cover frontline medical equipment for 30 prefecture hospitals and the refitting of five of them. It will also pay a proportion of the operating costs of the Health Ministry departments directly involved in supporting and developing basic health. This FMO will serve to rehabilitate a hundred or so schools in the coffee/cocoa area, replacing straw huts with permanent buildings, providing furniture and teaching materials and installing latrines. Last but not least, some funds will be earmarked for repairing tracks and bridges aimed at opening up coffee- and cocoa-growing areas. 25- 12. 18 TOGO Application years: 1991-1994 Products: Cocoa Coffee Cocoa Coffee Cotton Cocoa Coffee Shea Cocoa 1991 1991 1992 1992 1992 1993 1993 1993 1994 ECU ECU ECU ECU ECU ECU ECU ECU ECU 1 676 087 6 073 184 1 085 546 1 720 363 273 001 1937 651 1 718417 281 571 360 298 Dates of payment: 09. 09. 92(1991) 02. 05. 95(1992) 02. 05. 95(1993) 27. 11. 95(1994) FMO signed: 30. 09. 97 Summary The Stabex funds must be used exclusively: - - to support the above sectors, in which reform and restructuring are well under way, and facilitate the adoption of the self-management measures necessary for the withdrawal of the State; to carry out a number of investment projects of public interest designed to assist the smooth development of these sectors and the implementation of diversification activities; - to help increase the involvement of growers in the decision-making process, especially in respect of the prices at which their produce is purchased. The relatively high number of operations is the result of a deliberate choice and is possible only because some follow on from programmes already being carried out or planned by other donors. However, to avoid dependency, the sums allocated are for free-standing schemes that can be brought under way without waiting for other funding. The schemes proposed concern the means of production. They are designed either to have knock-on effects for the entire industry or to stop the deterioration in production conditions in that sector. It is clear from this programme that the funds benefit producers, even if there is no automatic link between the source of the loss and the allocation of the Stabex funds. 26 12. 19 VANUATU Application years: 1992 to 1994 Product: Copra 1992 1993 1994 ECU 267 337 ECU 265 281 ECU 60 045 Dates of payment: 16. 06. 1995 (1992 and 1993), 03. 06. 1996 (1994) FMO signed: 22. 04. 1996 Summary About 90 % of copra is produced by small growers who depend on the income to meet their basic cash needs. Since school fees were cut in 1993 and medical care became free, the growers have needed far less cash and reduced their activities in the sector. This trend has combined with a series of cyclones to reduce production and, therefore, export earnings. The funds available under this FMO are used for a single operation in support of an operation carried out under the 1988-91 FMO, namely the improvement of the rural road network. -27 12. 20 ZIMBABWE Application year: 1994 Products: Coffee Cotton + balance from 1st Financial Protocol + balance from 1992 l-'MO + balance from 1993 FMO ECU 2 708 633 ECU 2 145 286 ECU 1 175 104 ECU 1319 485 ECU 1 299 172 Dates of payment: 09. 09. 1996 (23. 12. 1996) FMO signed: 20. 10. 1997 Summary The Government of Zimbabwe, after consultation with the various interested parties, has decided that the counterpart funds generated by the Stabex transfers will be used: - primarily to assist the productive capability of the cotton and coffee sectors through the improvement of research and training, as well as infrastructure development, and - partly to compensate the economic operators for losses incurred. The Government of Zimbabwe is committed to continuing the liberalisation of agricultural markets as well as facilitating exports and investments. Moreover, the process of restructuring research and training activities in agriculture will be pursued. 28 CALCULATION OF 1996 TRANSFER BASES (in ECU) TABLE 1: Country §8 o Product Loss of earnings "Excess clause" Transfer basis after deduction of excess clause Article 202/203 consultations* Transfer basis after consultations Article 194(2) reduction Article 194(4) reduction Amount of transfer 224 Sudan Gum arabica 20. 042. 631 445. 884 19. 596. 747 236 Burkina Faso Beans 100. 787 0 100. 787 Groundnut products 10. 006. 992 3. 002. 098 7. 004. 894 0 0 0 19. 596. 747 100. 787 7. 004. 894 248 Senegal 252 Gambia 257 Guinea-Bissau 264 Sierra Leone 280 Togo Cotton neither carded nor combed Shrimps Timber Green or roasted coffee Green or roasted coffee 306 Central African Republic Timber 324 Rwanda Tea | Pyrethrum: saps and other extracts Uncured skins 543. 655 605. 765 124. 490 •0 0 0 543. 655 605. 765 124. 490 77. 384 277. 341 36. 326 2. 181. 588 48. 594 2. 132. 994 1. 216. 233 466. 271 328. 424 88. 164 916. 761 6. 408. 790 147. 407 6. 261. 383 2. 525. 216 3. 736. 167 4. 520. 405 109. 780 4. 410. 625 1. 657. 238 451. 215 408. 364 0 0 - 0 1. 657. 238 451. 215 408. 364 0 0 228. 377 0 4. 410. 625 1. 657. 238 222. 838 408. 364 328 Burundi Green or roasted coffee 7. 897. 038 425. 642 7. 471. 396 4. 288. 507 3. 182. 889 Uncured skins 901. 905 0 901. 905 499. 168 352 Tanzania 370 Madagascar 375 Comoros Tea Vanilla Vanilla Cloves Essential oils 386 Malawi Green or roasted coffee 460 Dominica 465 Saint Lucia Tea Green bananas Green bananas 3. 298. 181 247. 157 3. 051. 024 2. 945. 860 143. 705 2. 802. 155 0 0 3. 378. 682 48. 324 3. 330. 358 1. 723. 900 493. 962 829. 618 824. 946 1. 611. 662 0 0 0 0 493. 962 829. 618 824. 946 1. 611. 662 8. 865. 785 1. 372. 452 7. 493. 333 4. 589. 495 '1. 376. 848 3. 212. 647 290. 582 0 161. 813 0 0 0 402. 737 3. 051. 024 2. 802. 155 1. 606. 458 203. 380 829. 618 663. 133 1. 611. 662 7. 493. 333 3. 212. 647 467 St Vincent and the Grenadir Green bananas 10. 942. 182 1. 638. 875 9. 303. 307 ; 905. 491 8. 397. 816 473 Grenada 812 Kiribati 816 Vanuatu Green bananas Copra Cocoa beans 2. 408. 643 155. 361 2. 253. 282 1. 510. 826 364. 690 328. 485 0 0 364. 690 328. 485 115. 140 129. 817 742. 456 249. 550 198. 668 Totals 96. 733. 054 9. 162. 127 87. 570. 927 13. 986. 121 73. 584. 806 -29- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19. 596. 747 100. 787 7. 004. 894 466. 271 328. 424 88. 164 916. 761 3. 736. 167 4. 410. 625 1. 657. 238 222. 838 408. 364 3. 182. 889 402. 737 3. 051. 024 2. 802. 155 1. 606. 458 203. 380 829. 618 663. 133 1. 611. 662 7. 493. 333 3. 212. 647 8. 397. 816 742. 456 249. 550 198. 663 0 73. 584. 806 TABLE 2: BREAKDOWN BY RECIPIENT COUNTRY 1996 application year Country Amount in ECU As % of total 1 Sudan 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 St Vincent & the Grenadines Dominica Senegal Central African Republic Togo Burundi Saint Lucia Tanzania 10 Madagascar 11 Comoros 12 Rwanda 13 Malawi 14 Sierra Leone 15 Gambia 16 Grenada 17 Kiribati 18 Vanuatu 19 Burkina Faso 20 Guinea-Bissau 19. 596. 747 8. 397. 816 7. 493. 333 7. 004. 894 4. 410. 625 3. 736. 167 3. 585. 626 3. 212. 647 3. 051. 024 2. 802. 155 2. 639. 456 2. 288. 440 2. 274. 795 916. 761 794. 695 742. 456 249. 550 198. 668 100. 787 88. 164 26,632 11,412 10,183 9,519 5,994 5,077 4,873 4,366 4,146 3,808 3,587 3,110 3,091 1,246 1,080 1,009 0,339 0,270 0,137 0,120 73. 584. 806 100,000 30- TABLE 3: BREAKDOWN BY PRODUCT 1996 application year Product Green bananas Gum arabica Green or roasted coffee Groundnut products Tea Timber Vanilla Essential oils Cotton neither carded nor combed 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Uncured skins 11 Uncured skins 12 Shrimps 13 Copra 14 Pyrethrum: saps and extracts 15 Cloves 16 Cocoa beans 17 Beans Amount in ECU As % of total 19. 846. 252 19. 596. 747 8. 498. 950 7. 004. 894 6. 319. 924 4. 498. 789 4. 408. 613 829. 618 466. 271 408. 364 402. 737 328. 424 249. 550 222. 838 203. 380 198. 668 100. 787 26,971 26,632 11,550 9,519 8,589 6,114 5,991 1,127 0,634 0,555 0,547 0,446 0,339 0,303 0,276 0,270 0,137 Total 73. 584. 806 100,000 - 3 I- ISSN 0254-1475 COM(98) 535 final DOCUMENTS EN s 11 17 02 10 Catalogue number : CB-CO-98-540-EN-C ISBN 92-78-39354-1 Office for Officiai Publications of the European Communities L-2985 Luxembourg - \A