The convention at work

EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT FUND

The Commission has taken decisions to finance the following schemes from the 6th and 7th EDFs.

-22 January 1993

Angola: 7th EDF grant of ECU 950 000 to improve the services of the National Authorising Officer.

All ACPs: 7th EDF grant of ECU 1 380 000 for 'The Courier ACP-EEC'.

Pacific Region: 7th EDF grant of ECU 1 300 000 for the ACP-EC Second Pacific Unit

-25 January 1993

Jamaica: 7th EDF grant of ECU 3 000 000 to develop trade and services (Target Europe Programme)

Niger: 7th EDF Grant of ECU 16 000 000 for small irrigation facilities in the Lower Tarka Valley (Phase II).

Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal & Chad: (7th EDF grant ECU 9 997 868 to improve the permanent diagnosis instruments for regional food security (Phase III)

Sao Tome & Principe: 7th EDF grant of ECU l 300 000 to repair the S. Joao dos Angloares-Ribeira Peixe road.

-2 February 1993

Cameroon: 7th EDF grant of ECU 22 500 for a road maintenance programme

ACP-OCT: 6th EDF grant of ECU 35 000 000 as a global commitment authorisation to finance (expedited procedure) technical promotion operations and schemes to develop trade and services, including tourism, in the ACPs and OCTs.

-4 February 1993

SADC region: 7th EDF grant of ECU 2 000 000 for a SADC language training programme.

SADC region (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia & Swaziland): 7th EDF grant of ECU I 900000 for a SADC regional customs training programme.

Namibia: 7th EDF grant of ECU 1 300 000 for institutional support for the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Rural Development.