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THE ACP-EU COMMITTEE OF AMBASSADORS,

Having regard to the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000^f1 (‘the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement’), and in particular Article 2 of Annex III thereto,

Whereas:

Article 2(6)(d) of Annex III to the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement requires the ACP-EU Committee of Ambassadors to monitor the overall strategy of the CDE and to supervise the work of the Executive Board of the CDE.

The Executive Board of the CDE shall supervise the work of the CDE (Article 2(7)(b)), adopt the programme and the budget of the CDE (Article 2(7)(c)) and submit periodic reporting and evaluations to the ACP-EU Committee of Ambassadors (Article 2(7)(d)).

The CDE's Statutes and Rules of Procedure adopted by Decision n^o 8/2005 of the ACP-EC Committee of Ambassadors (the ‘CDE Statutes’) and the CDE's Financial Regulation adopted by Decision n^o 5/2004 of the ACP-EC Committee of Ambassadors (the ‘CDE Financial Regulation’), provide the safeguards in terms of information of and supervision by the ACP-EU Committee of Ambassadors.

At its 39^th session held on 19 and 20 June 2014 in Nairobi, the ACP-EU Council of Ministers agreed, in a Joint Declaration, to proceed with the orderly closing of the CDE and the amendment of Annex III to the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement and, for this purpose, decided to grant a delegation of powers to the ACP-EU Committee of Ambassadors to take the matter forward with a view to adopting the necessary decisions.

The above-mentioned Joint Declaration of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers established the ACP-EU Joint Working Group (the ‘JWG’) to ensure that the CDE is closed under the best possible conditions,

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