- Country or region
- African, Caribbean, Pacific (ACP)
- Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA)
- Trade topics
- Economic Partnerships
- Negotiations and agreements
On 2 October 2019, the EU started negotiations with five Eastern and Southern Africa partners (so-called ESA: Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Zimbabwe) to deepen the existing Economic Partnership Agreement.
Negotiating directives
Council Decision amending the negotiating directives for the negotiation of EPAs with ACP countries
Launch of negotiations
- Press release, October 2019
Round reports
- Report of round 14, October 2024
- Report of round 13, March 2024
- Report of round 12, June 2023
- Report of round 11, March 2023
- Report of round 10, December 2022
- Report of round 9, September 2022
- Report of round 8, May-June 2022
- Report of round 7, April 2022
- Report of round 6, November 2021
- Report of round 5, July 2021
- Report of round 4, April 2021
- Report of round 3, December 2020
- Report of round 2, July 2020
- Report of round 1, January 2020
Initial text proposals tabled by the EU side
- Agriculture
- Capital movements, payments and transfers, and temporary safeguard measures
- Customs and trade facilitation
- Intellectual property
- Investment liberalisation, trade in services and digital trade
- Means of implementation
- Government procurement
- Rules of origin and origin procedures
- Sanitary and phytosanitary
- Technical barriers to trade
- Trade and Sustainable Development