What is the link between the SIA and the EU development cooperation?
The SIA is useful to help set and/or reinforce the agenda for development co-operation. Althought the SIA is a initiatives conducted under the leadership of the European Commission Directorate for Trade, the results of the SIA have been used to help set and/or reinforce the agenda for development cooperation aimed at improving levels of competitiveness and infrastructure. The SIA has served as a vital starting point for identifying issues and mechanisms to encourage the sustainable development component of the EPAs. The sustainability aspects are linked to development and core environment and labour standards and the message that social and environmental standards should not be neglected is an important one. Environmental and social chapters negotiated in the context of the EPAs should correspond to regional sustainable development objectives, including those identified in the SIA and a call for the improved observance and enforcement of environmental and social standards.
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