I 
Hi COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 
Brussels, 18.07.1997 
COM(97) 374 final 
COMMISSION REPORT 
On the operation in 1996 of the 
export earnings stabilisation system under the 
fourth ACP-EC Convention as revised by the 
Agreement signed in Mauritius 
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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 1996, paying special attention to the allocation 
of transfers for 1995, the first year of application of Stabex under the fourth 
ACP-EC Convention as revised by the Agreement signed in Mauritius. 
The Stabex financial situation has continued to improve; for the second year of 
application in a row it has been possible to cover all transfers. 
II. ACTIVITIES OF THE ACP-EC INSTITUTIONS 
3. The operation of Stabex was discussed at the 21st session of the ACP-EC 
Council of Ministers (Apia, 27-28 June 1996) and the 43rd meeting of the 
ACP-EC Committee of Ambassadors (Brussels, 31 May 1996). 
4. Items covered were the preparation of a Decision of the ACP-EC Council of 
Ministers to permit transfers in respect of the 1995 year of application pending 
entry into force of the fourth ACP-EC Convention, as revised by the 
Agreement signed in Mauritius (see point 8). 
m. TRANSFERS FOR THE 1995 YEAR OF APPLICATION 
5. Calculation of the transfer bases 
For the 1995 year of application, the Commission found 19 ACP States to be 
eligible for 21 transfers under the Stabex arrangements. The 
21 country/product groups for which losses of earnings eligible for 
compensation were recorded are listed in Table 1 of this report (see page 24). 
6. After calculating the reduction provided for in Article 197(3) and (4) of the 
Convention, the transfer bases totalled ECU 87 989 500. 
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. -
7. 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 
CapeVerde 
Sierra Leone 
Benin 
Equatorial Guinea 
Rwanda 
Dominica 
Grenada 
Saint Vincent 
Tuvalu Fresh bananas 
Cocoa beans 
Palm products 
Cocoa 
Tea* 
Bananas 
Bananas 
Bananas 
Copra Amount in 
ECU 
206 239 
1 293 024 
308 017 
168 058 
1 478 865 
1 450 157 
614 930 
1 407 941 
11 319 % of transfer 
basis (TB) 
23.80 
51.80 
34.20 
17.50 
68.80 
10.19 
34.02 
9.46 
52.30 
It should be noted that, on 24 October 1996, Rwanda requested the re-opening of the Article 203 
consultations in respect of tea and coffee. In the case of coffee, tlie Commission's position resulted 
in a 100% reduction of the transfer base. The negotiations were still continuing at tlie time this report 
went to press. 
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 
Amount in % of 
Togo 
Tuvalu 
Vanuatu Cocoa beans 
Copra 
Cocoa ECU 
1 364 177 
7 514 
268 957 transfer 
basis (TB) 
52.40 
72.80 
37.10 
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 
Benin 
Burundi 
Malawi 
Calculating the transfers Palm products 
Raw hides 
Tea Amount in 
ECU 
388 389 
200 259 
2 579 830 %of 
transfer 
basis (TB) 
65.40 
40.10 
24.14 
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 76 241 824. 
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 1995 year of application is approximately ECU 360 million. 
Nevertheless, as this instalment will not be released until the revised 
Convention enters into force - and the second Financial Protocol has therefore 
been ratified - and to ensure the continuity of the system by allowing transfers 
in respect of the 1995 year of application, the ACP-EC Council of Ministers 
agreed as follows in Decision 2/96 of 28 June 1996: 
The Commission shall deduct temporarily funds unused under the First 
Financial Protocol to the fourth Lomé Convention and shall add the 
accumulated interest on the Stabex account opened pursuant to Article 
192 of the said Convention, to pay in full or to a large extent for 
"transfers to the ACP States for the 1995 implementing year. 
Should the second Financial Protocol not be ratified, the Community 
shall guarantee the availability of the resources so deducted, by recourse 
to unallocated appropriations. 
Upon ratification of the second Financial Protocol, transfers thus 
deducted will be again made available to the ACP States by payment to 
the Stabex account referred to in Article 192 of the Lomé Convention. 
As the unused funds-mentioned in the Decision exceed the total transfers to be 
made in respect of the 1995 year of application, it will be possible to cover 
those transfers in full. 
9. Results by recipient country and product 
Table 2 (page 25) gives the results by recipient country. As in 1994, banana-
exporting Caribbean countries are the main recipients, their eligible earnings 
losses being due to a number of causes such as a hurricane, drought and 
structural problems in the sector. 
'10. the balance per product (see Table 3, page 26) confirms the 1994 trends, 
bananas and cotton still being responsible for the largest share of the transfers 
(60 and 15.9% respectively). In many cases the transfers made represent a 
substantial addition to the recipient State's total export earnings, examples 
being: 
ACP State Product Transfers as a percentage of 1995 
earnings from all products 
(estimate) 
Dominica Bananas 38.7 
Saint Lucia Bananas 24.7 
S aint Vincent B ananas 30.8 
Tuvalu Copra 20.4 
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 
Equatorial Guinea 
Rwanda 
Burundi 
Zimbabwe 
Malawi 
Dominica 
Saint Lucia 
Saint Vincent 
Tuvalu 
Vanuatu Product 
Cocoa 
Raw hides 
Raw hides 
Cotton 
Tea 
Bananas 
Bananas 
Bananas 
Copra 
Cocoa Transfers as a percentage of 1995 
earnings from the product in 
question 
17.9 
38.2 
21.7 
31.6 
37.9 
99.9 
48.8 
77.7 
62.1 
43.2 
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. Frameworks of Mutual Obligations 
12.1 BENIN 
Year of application 
Product 
Date paid 
FMO signed 1993 
Palm products 
Palm products 1993 
1993 
(additional) ECU 662 709 
ECU 7 049 
09.03.1995(1993) 
16.09.1996 (1993 additional)* 
25.11.96 
Summary: 
The Stabex funds will be used for the following purposes: 
- to diversify agricultural production and exports of agricultural products by 
promoting those lines for which there is a market either at world or sub-
regional level. Preference will go to products that can be both exported and 
sold on the national market, e.g. maize, peanuts, fruit and vegetables; 
- to reactivate the oil palm sector by financing the rehabilitation of existing 
plantations and providing support for new village or privately owned 
plantations and the maintenance of cooperatively run rural development 
plantations. 
cf. p. 23. 
12 2 BURKINA FASO 
Year of application 
Product 
Date paid 
FMO signed 1992 and 1993 
Hides and skins 
Cotton 
Cotton 
Cotton 1992 
1992 
1993 
1993 
(additional) ECU 783 508 
ECU 792 762 
ECU 704 412 
ECU 28 751* 
08.02.1995(1992) 
08.02.1995(1993) 
05.09.1996 (1993 additional)* 
21.10.1996 
Summary 
The government is interested in improving access to areas with a good cotton 
growing potential as this is essential if results in the sector are to be improved 
and it is to make a bigger contribution to the national economy. The 
government and the Commission have therefore decided to assign the 
resources earned by the sector to the rebuilding and repair of unsurfaced roads 
in the cotton growing Province of Sissili. In the last few years cotton 
production has risen significantly with a big increase in the area down to 
cotton (up 164%) and a corresponding increase in production in the 1994/95 
season. 
Nevertheless, it is clear that development in the region will depend on its 
becoming more accessible and that the current state of secondary unsurfaced 
roads is one of the main obstacles to increasing production. 
A study on repairing 105 km of such tracks in Sissili Province identified four 
main sections as requiring attention, i.e. those from Léo to Beune, Boura to 
Niabouri, To to Silly and Godé to Nébiélianayou. Repairs to these roads will 
have major economic consequences for all cotton producers and the entire 
region, as well as improving living standards for the rural population. The road 
works themselves are to be financed entirely from the 1992/1993 Stabex fund 
whilst maintenance is to be resourced from the national budget in line with the 
terms laid down in the Sectoral Transport Adjustment Plan (PASECT). 
cf. P. 23 
12 3 CAPE VERDE 
Year of application 1993 and 1994 
Product Fresh bananas 1993 ECU 355 847 
Fresh bananas 1994 ECU 716 057 
Date paid 06.04.1995 (1993) 
03.11.1995(1994) 
FMO signed 01.03.96 
Summary 
Losses in 1993 and 1994 resulted mainly from exports coming to a halt 
because of the poor quality of the bananas reaching the European market, a 
factor due partly to the obsolete method of sea transport used and partly to the 
poor quality of the fruit at the outset. 
The 1993 and 1994 transfers will therefore be used primarily to obtain a 
product of international standard meeting the requirements of the European 
market. This means establishing: 
- a high-quality chain of production encompassing every stage from planting 
to delivery at port; 
- a cooling system in which bananas are placed as soon as possible after 
packing, and one which does not involve repacking until they reach the port 
of unloading; 
- a maritime transport system which uses refrigerated containers. 
If exports are to resume, production will have to meet the export quality 
standard. Banana growers will therefore have to adopt basic intensive methods 
as well as: 
- good techniques and a method of cultivation which does not use pesticides, 
thereby allowing exporters to use the "biological product" label; 
- irrigation so as to provide banana plants with optimum water supplies, 
thereby reducing water consumption by some 50%. 
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12 4 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 
Year of application 
Product 
Date paid 
FMO signed 1992 and 1993 
Cotton 
Cotton 
Wood 
3.5.94(1992) 
1.12.94(1993) 
25.9.96 1992 ECU 450 591 
1993 ECU 724 213 
1993 ECU 1 022 587 
Summary 
The FMO contributes to an emergency programme in the form of aid covering 
one sixth of the residual requirements of the programme, which also receives 
financial support from the country's main donors. 
This support serves mainly to secure the State's priority expenditure and is 
provided in addition to the Community's Structural Adjustment Facility. 
Together, the FMO and the SAF cover the operating expenditure, totalling 
CFAF 2 900 million, of the following ministries: health, education, land, water 
and forest administration, environment, agriculture, transport, public works, 
social affairs, justice, finance and the plan, 
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12 5 DOMINICA 
Year of application 1994 
Product Bananas ECU 9.159.385 (+ECU 221 588* ) 
Datepaid 13.09.1995 (11.10.1996*) 
FMO signed 30.10.1996 
Summary 
See Saint Vincent 
cf. p. 27. 
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12 6 GUINEA BISSAU 
Year of application 
Product 
Date paid 
FMO signed 1993 
Groundnuts 
Palm nuts 
kernels 
02.02.1995(1993) 
28.03.96 1993 
and 1993 ECU 83 256 
ECU 30 192 
Summary 
Losses in 1993 were mainly due to: 
- short rains in the case of groundnuts; 
- old palm trees and the unsatisfactory system of harvesting, processing and 
storage in the case of palm products. 
The main aims of the measures introduced under the FMO are: 
- to re-activate the production, harvesting, conservation and transport of 
tropical fruit and help set up domestic and foreign marketing systems; 
- to improve the quality and increase the production of palm products with a 
view to exporting them, replant palm trees, introduce new species and 
increase the area under palms. 
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12 6 HAITI 
Year of application 1994 
Product Coffee ECU 6.495.387 (+ECU 287 225* ) 
Date paid 03.12.1995 (02.12.1996*) 
FMO signed 10.03.1997 
Summary 
The funds transferred to the Republic of Haiti for the 1994 year of application 
will be added to the funding for measures begun with resources allocated 
earlier. The main purpose is to reactivate export systems by supporting 
farming, trade, and various bodies and institutions. 
The following results are aimed at: 
- a better quality of product, 
- higher earnings for producers; 
- higher export earnings; 
- more capable institutions; 
- to provide support for the job creation policy. 
The Government of the Republic of Haiti undertakes to: 
- maintain its programme of economic reform and structural adjustment; 
- define and start implementing a policy of financial security; 
- continue decentralising the public administration; 
- encourage private initiative in rural development. 
cf. p. 27. 
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127 MALAWI 
Year of application 1990 and 1991 
Products Tea 1990 ECU 1 705 852 
Tea 1991 ECU 2 288 885 
Coffee 1991 ECU 220 364 
Date paid 02.08.1995 
FMO signed 13.09.1996 
Summary : 
The project on which the balance of the 1990/91 Stabex funds will be used 
aims at increasing yield per hectare and the quality of Malawi tea by 
accelerating the tea replanting programme. It covers a period of between two 
and three years and is a bonus (cash) payment scheme which will partially 
compensate for losses incurred by tea estates during the first five years. 
Given the tea sector's importance as the second largest foreign exchange 
earner, GOM is committed to improving the economic viability of the tea 
industry through a clonal tea replanting programme. 
15 
12 8 SAINT LUCIA 
Application year : 1994 
Product Bananas ECU 22 176 403 (+ ECU 302 130*) 
Payment date 24.08.1995 (26.11.1996) 
FMO signed: 05.09.1996 
Summary : 
see Saint Vincent 
cf. p. 27. 
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12.9 SAINT VINCENT 
Year of application : 1994 
Product Bananas ECU 25 724 865 (+ ECU 173 908*) 
Date paid 24.08.1995 (26.11.1996) 
FMO signed: 05.09.1996 
Summary : 
Problems encountered in the banana sector being very much alike in the 
different Windward Islands, among them Dominica, Saint Lucia and Saint 
Vincent, it is not surprising that the intended use of 1994 Stabex funds is 
similar, if not identical, as well. 
As the intention is to allow producers in these islands to increase their 
production efficiency, thereby enabling them to compete in international 
markets by the end of the century, the 1994 Stabex resources should not be 
seen simply as additional to those used to finance projects funded by previous 
Stabex transfers. Because there is a large sum available in the 1994 fund, its 
use should be broadly defined. 
In the three islands concerned, the 1994 Stabex resources will therefore be 
used not only for the benefit of economic operators adversely affected by the 
loss of export earnings, but also for diversification measures within the 
agricultural sector and the economy at large. Some of the specific objectives 
are to: 
- improve banana quality and increase productivity; 
- promote agricultural and broader economic diversification; 
- provide social safety nets. 
The Governments of Dominica, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent undertake to 
continue restructuring their respective banana industries (with particular 
attention to fruit quality control systems), to maintain the drive towards 
economic diversification, the elimination of institutional, government, 
managerial and financial deficiencies, and to encourage their growers to adopt 
more rigorous cultivation and post-harvest discipline. 
cf. p. 27. 
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12.10 SENEGAL 
Year of application 1994 
Product Groundnut products 1994 ECU 5 455 077 
Date paid 14.09.1995 
FMO signed 26.04.96 
Summary 
If work on the programme to reactivate groundnut production is to continue, 
some specific short and medium-term measures will have to be adopted and 
these will have to be based on some of the conditions underlying this FMO, 
namely: 
- one central professional body for all those involved in groundnuts will 
have to be established and given the mandate to structure relations 
between the different operators in the production chain; 
- a mechanism for setting the various prices within that chain will have to 
be adopted. It will be required to reflect international rates and guarantee 
the financial soundness of the production chain ^o that the individual 
producer can gain sufficient insight into the workings of that chain, obtain 
the necessary inputs and replace his main items of equipment; 
- groundnut processing activities will have to be privatised whilst at the 
same time imposing minimum obligations on those taking over oil 
production at the time of privatisation and protecting the legitimate 
interests of the producer; 
- support will have to go to implementing a project to back up the 
management of the financial instruments available to the production chain 
and to structuring the agricultural producers' bodies coming under the 
single central body. 
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12 12 CHAD 
Year of application 
Product 
Date paid 
FMO signed 1993 and 1994 
Cotton 
Cotton 
16.12.1994(1993) 
08.01.1996(1994) 
29.05.96 1993 ECU 4 439 203 
1994 ECU 6 530 755 
Summary 
Stabex transfers will be used for two purposes: 
to improve production and marketing conditions in the cotton growing 
area, particularly by taking steps to ensure that unsurfaced roads are kept 
repaired. 
to improve Chad's overall economic situation, particularly by providing 
aid specifically for the road maintenance budget. 
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12.12 ZIMBABWE 
Year of application 1993 
Product Cotton 
Date paid 14.12.1994 
FMO signed: 03.10.1996 ECU 5 439 952 
(20.08.1996) (+ ECU 222,039*) 
Summary : 
STABEX 1993 resources are to be used for drought relief operations to help 
speed up the recovery of the agricultural sector after the 1994/95 drought. In 
particular, in the 1995/96 cropping season, support is to go to the GOZ 
programme of distribution of seeds and agricultural inputs to farmers in need. 
GOZ is committed to putting in place and implementing the drought relief 
and, in particular, crop pack programmes, as presented to donors. 
cf. p. 23 
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13 OVERALL EVALUATION OF STABEX 
Following some fifteen individual country evaluations, this comprehensive 
evaluation was begun towards the end of 1996 and should be completed by mid 
• 1997. The results will be presented and analysed in the next Commission report 
on the operation of Stabex. 
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V. BALANCE REMAINING UNDER THE FIRST FINANCIAL PROTOCOL 
14. Under the provisions of Article 195(a) of the fourth ACP-EEC Convention the 
Commission decided on 3 June 1996 to repay to the eligible ACP States the funds 
and interest remaining after the end of 1995, the last year in which the Stabex 
system was implemented under the first Financial Protocol to the above 
Convention. 
At the end of 1995 the -above amount totalled ECU 67 661 825, made up of ECU 
49 640 081.69 in capital and ECU 18 021 743.31 in interest. This balance is 
mainly for the 1994 year of application, for which the transfers were made in 
1995 - the only year of application under the first Financial Protocol when the 
resources available under the system exceeded the total transfers for which ACP 
States were eligible. 
15. As provided for in the Convention, the total balance (i.e. ECU 67 661-825) has to 
be divided up between the ACP States in proportion to the amount or amounts 
retained in respect of each of them under the provisions of Article 197(3) and (4) 
of the Convention. These provisions cover what has come to be known as the 
"franchise" (the amount retained) and require that, under certain circumstances, 
such an amount may be retained to reduce the loss of eligible earnings by the 
ACP State concerned and, therefore, the amount transferred under Stabex. 
Table 4 (page 27) shows the "franchises" (amounts retained) for the 1990 to 1994 
years of application and the pro rata repayments from the total accumulated 
balance of ECU 67 661 825 to all eligible ACP States. 
The retained amounts redistributed to the ACP States are additional funds for use 
under a framework of mutual obligations either already in application or 
currently in preparation. 
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VI. ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR THE 1993 APPLICATION YEAR 
(Commission Decision of 2.5.1996) 
16. On 29 March 1995 the Ethiopian authorities informed the Commission, 
through the Delegation, that the statistics forwarded in connection with 
the 1993 transfers for coffee, hides and skins had undergone major 
revision. 
Using the revised statistics and the same basis as for the 1993 year of 
application, the Commission tl^en recalculated the transfers for Ethiopia 
(See Commission Decision, Minutes of the 121st Commission meeting of 
19 July 1994). 
The difference between the sum transferred to Ethiopia and the 
recalculated sum showed that an excess of ECU 10 894 357 had been 
transferred. 
As transfers to Ethiopia in respect of coming years could not be 
prejudiced, the Commission asked Ethiopia to repay the sum to the Stabex 
account of the European Development Fund. Ethiopia did so on 27 
November 1995. 
17. Another revision of statistics for the 1993 year of application, by 
Vanuatu, showed that the transfer calculated for copra (ECU 547 401) 
needed to be reduced to ECU 265 281. As the error was noticed prior to 
any transfer being made, the actual sum transferred to Vanuatu therefore 
did not exceed ECU 265 281. Also, as the difference between the two 
sums (ECU 282 120) was so small, it would not, of itself, have given rise 
to a transfer to eligible ACP States in respect of the 1993 year of 
application. However, for the sake of consistency, it was decided that the 
sum deducted from the transfer to Vanuatu should be added to that repaid 
by Ethiopia. 
18. Since there were insufficient funds available in the 1993 year of 
application, the sums referred to (i.e. a total ECU 11 176 477) had to be 
divided in the same proportion as the adjusted transfers between the 
various ACP States (including Ethiopia and Vanuatu). 
The result of this distribution is shown in Table 5. The additional funds 
made available by this distribution are to be used under the rules of the 
frameworks of mutual obligations for the 1993 year of application. 
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TABLE 1 : STABEX 1995 YEAR OF APPLICATION 
Transfers 
(in ECU) 
Country 
code 
236 
247 
248 
264 
280 
284 
310 
324 
328 
350 
382 
386 
460 
465 
467 
473 
806 
807 
816 Country 
Burkina Faso 
Cape Verde 
Senegal 
Sierra Leone 
Togo 
Benin 
Equatorial Guinea 
Rwanda 
Burundi 
Uganda 
Zimbabwe 
Malawi 
Dominica 
St Lucia 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 
Granada 
Solomon Islands 
Tuvalu 
Vanuatu Product 
Raw hides 
Fresh bananas 
Groundnut products 
Cocoa beans 
Cocoa beans 
Palm products 
Cocoa beans 
Tea 
Raw hides 
Raw hides 
Tea 
Cotton not carded or combed 
Tea 
Fresh bananas 
Fresh bananas 
Fresh bananas 
Fresh bananas 
Nutmeg and mace 
Cocoa beans 
Copra 
Cocoa beans Reference level 
5,725,787 
903,192 
78,938,347 
5,305,628 
7,902,523 
2,092,556 
«5,404.285 
3.333,272 
2,823,113 
2,880,413 
637,842 
56,092,468 
44,792,020 
33,084,870 
73,048,802 
42,538.191 
4,083.060 
2,768,040 
4,018,295 
26,173 
1,780,660 
378,179,537 Earnings for 
year of 
application 
5.066,939 
36,933 
74,757,140 
2,755,037 
5,219,213 
1,190,708 
4.442,305 
1,149,770 
2,252,745 
2,380,914 
207,630 
41,427,062 
33,657,590 
18,524,240 
54,612,020 
27,223,411 
2,275,346 
2,236,740 
3,835,306 
4.528 
1,055,884 
284,311.461 Loss of 
earnings 
658,848 
866,259 
4,181,207 
2,550.591 
2,683,310 
901,848 
961,980 
2,183,502 
570,368 
499,499 
430,212 
14,665,406 
11,134,430 
14,560,630 
18,436,782 
15,314,780 
1,807,714 
531,300 
182,989 
21.645 
724.776 
93,868,076 franchise" 
0 
0 
1,254,362 
53,056 
79.025 
0 
0 
33,333 
0 
0 
0 
2,524,161 
447,920 
330,849 
730,488 
425,382 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
5.878,576 Transfer basis 
after 
"franchise" 
658.848 
866,259 
2,926,845 
2,497.535 
2,604,285 
901,848 
961,980 
2.150,169 
570,368 
499,499 
430,212 
12,141,245 
10,686.510 
14,229,781 
17,706.294 
14,889,398 
1,807,714 
531,300 
182,989 
21,645 
724,776 
87,989,500 Art. 202/203 
consultations 
0 
206,239 
0 
1,293.024 
1.364.177 
696,406 
168,058 
1,478.865 
0 
200,259 
0 
0 
2,579,830 
1,450,157 
0 
1,407,941 
614,930 
0 
0 
18.833 
268,957 
11,747,676 Transfer basis 
after 
consultations 
658.848 
660,020 
2,926,845 
,1,204,511 
1,240.108 
205,442 
793,922 
671,304 
570,368 
299,240 
430,212 
12,141,245 
8,106,680 
12,779,624 
17,706,294 
13,481,457 
1,192,784 
531,300 
182.989 
2,812 
455,819 
76,241,824 Art. 194(2) 
reduction 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 Art. 194(4) 
reduction 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 Transfer 
amount 
658,848 
660,020 
2,926,845 
1,204,511 
1,240,108 
205,442 
793.922 
671.304 
570.368 
299,240 
430.212 
12,141,245 
8.106,680 
12,779,624 
17.706.294 
13,481.457 
1.192,784 
531,300 
182,989 
2,812 
455,819 
76,241,824 
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TABLE 2 : OVERVIEW PER BENEFICIARY COUNTRY 
APPLICATION YEAR 1995 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 Country 
St Lucia 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 
Dominica 
Zimbabwe 
Malawi 
Senegal 
Grenada 
Rwanda 
Togo 
Sierra Leone 
Equatorial Guinea 
Cape Verde 
Burkina Faso 
Vanuatu 
Uganda 
Burundi 
Benin 
Solomon Islands 
Tuvalu 
TOTAL Amount in ECU 
17,706,294 
13,481,457 
12,779,624 
12,141,245 
8.106,680 
2,926,845 
1,724,084 
1,241,672 
1,240,108 
1,204,511 
793,922 
660,020 
658,848 
455,819 
430.212 
299,240 
205,442 
182.989 
2.812 
76.241.824 % of total amount 
23.224 
17.682 
16.762 
15.925 
10.633 
3.839 
2.261 
'1.629 
1.627 
1.580 
1.041 
0.866 
0.864 
0.598 
0.564 
0.392 
0.269 
0.240 
0.004 
100.000 
25 
TABLE 3 : OVERVIEW PER PRODUCT 
APPLICATION YEAR 1995 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 Products 
Fresh bananes 
Cotton not carded or combed 
Tea 
Cocoa beans 
Groundnut products 
Raw hides 
Nutmeg and mace 
Palm products 
Copra Amount in ECU 
45.820,179 
12,141.245 
9,208,196 
3,877,349 
2,926,845 
1,528,456 
531,300 
205.442 
2,812 
76,241.824 % of total amount 
60.098 
15.925 
12.078 
5.086 
3.839 
2.005 
0.697 
0.269 
0.004 
100.000 
26 
TABLE 4 : REDISTRIBUTION FRANCHISES ON ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST FINANCIAL PROTOCOL OF LOME IV 
Country 
code Country Product 1990 "franchise" 1991 "franchise" 1992 "franchise" 1993 "franchise" 1994 "franchise" total total "franchise' 
by country redistribution 
franchise" by 
product REDISTRIBUTION 
"FRANCHISE" BY 
COUNTRY 
27 224 
228 
236 
244 
248 
264 
272 
276 
280 
284 
302 
306 
310 
311 
324 
328 
334 
346 
350 
352 
366 
370 
375 
382 
386 
395 
452 
460 
465 
467 
473 
801 
806 
816 
819 Sudan 
Mauritania 
Burkina Faso 
Chad 
Senegal 
Sierra Leone 
Côte d'Ivoire 
Ghana 
Togo 
Benin 
Cameroun 
Central African Republic 
Equatorial Guinea 
Sâo Tome and Principe 
Rwanda 
Burundi 
Ethiopia 
Kenya 
Uganda 
Tanzania 
Mozambique 
Madagascar 
Comoros 
Zimbabwe 
Malawi 
Lesotho 
Haiti 
Dominica 
St Lucia 
St Vincent 
Grenada 
Papua New Guinea 
Solomon Islands 
Vanuatu 
Western Samoa Groundnut products 
Cotton products 
Hides and skins 
Gum Arabic 
Sesame seed 
Oil cakes 
Squid, octopus and cuttlefish 
Cotton 
Hides and skins 
Cotton 
Groundnut products 
Cocoa 
Coffee 
Cocoa products 
Coffee products 
Cotton 
Wood 
Cocoa products 
Cocoa 
Coffee 
Palm products 
Cocoa products 
Coffee 
Coffee 
Cotton 
Cocoa 
Cocoa 
Coffee 
Hides and skins 
Coffee 
Coffee 
Hides and skins 
Coffee 
Tea 
Coffee 
Cotton 
Hides and skins 
Coffee 
Cotton 
Cashew nuts and kernels 
Coffee 
Vanilla 
Cloves 
Vanilla 
Cloves 
Coffee 
Cotton 
Tea 
Wool 
Mohair 
Cocoa 
Coffee 
Fresh bananas 
Fresh bananas 
Fresh bananas 
Nutmeg and mace 
Cocoa products 
Coffee 
Copra products 
Palm products 
Copra 
Copra 
Copra products 
TOTAL 161,459 
2,832,293 
175,385 
566,906 
453,307 
145,643 
1,394,282 
101,117 
20,371,339 
26,162,882 
8,415,000 
134,277 
251,558 
0 
12,106,695 
8,961,075 
335,130 
144,332 
134,546 
68,770 
1,091,670 
58,466 
971,388 
2,899,003 
408,230 
9,572,502 
2,391,240 
48,500 
1,114,090 
4,096,463 
835,031 
170,775 
117,159 
42,453 
687,652 
53,767 
417,425 
0 
69,502 
2,029,376 
3,802,590 
1,288,013 
2,526,458 
148,506 
130,913 
68,778 
117,955,946 0 
2,305,670 
134,505 
512,344 
406,492 
89,529 
1,394,282 
43,003 
118,342 
101,117 
17,961,289 
6,640,050 
9,072,855 
96,562 
251,558 
28,385 
10,144,405 
7,818,649 
256,722 
107,817 
75,373 
991,600 
46,878 
928,441 
2,569,533 
341,027 
8,430,863 
2,107,647 
87,025 
894,172 
598,184 
50,095 
3,485,014 
752,895 
147,071 
572,080 
0 
113,148 
374,925 
0 
70,655 
1,750,095 
3,753,889 
890,921 
87,830 
0 
53,504 84,708 
2,061,180 
468,874 
530,286 
509,308 
35,086 
3,616,477 
96,075 
86,310 
12,780,957 
1,693,395 
5,378,625 
66,462 
213,131 
7,794,383 
6,361,122 
183,142 
43,522 
93,041 
49,285 
858,593 
35,870 
791,116 
2,169,466 
273,563 
6,801,717 
311,234 
1,676,165 
77,820 
743,110 
189,630 
0 
2,739,229 
621,825 
132,075 
31,023 
606,184 
2,404,890 
58,036 
0 
0 
264,372 
399,008 
0 
66,070 
1,469,025 
3,408,559 325,457 
23,947 
405,137 
3,414,353 
80,527 
80,208 
6,860,025 
10,458,135 
8,284,219 
121,720 
176,837 
0 
6,314,232 
5,523,401 
174,856 
0 
74,292 
701,300 
1,655,104 
202,086 
6,065,539 
1,859,622 
0 
908,301 
40,757 
2,047,500 
77,500 
2,127,375 
0 
0 
0 
213,355 
398,797 
800,908 
451,635 
54,160 
1,192,151 
2,956,748 
0 
37,268 
64,107,452 271,292 
0 
768,627 
405,137 
2,648,567 
63,745 
0 
5,539,371 
63,391 
743,831 
428,681 
536,321 
254,530 
0 
167,992 
353,115 
768,347 
451,635 
0 
948,454 
0 
0 
26,481 
14,439,517 246,167 
7,795,892 
333,837 
1,548,124 
859,799 
235,172 
3,318,850 
1,277,935 
78,089 
810,274 
9,679,397 
358,689 
368,752 
27,231,364 
67,363,263 
1,693,395 
6,640,050 
31,150,699 
419,021 
893,084 
28,385 
41,899,086 
28,664,247 
949,850 
187,854 
473,087 
193,428 
2,941,863 
141,214 
3,392,245 
9,293,106 
1,224,906 
30,870,621 
311,234 
8,034,674 
48,500 
164,845 
4,403,504 
787,814 
90,852 
12,368,206 
2,209,751 
527,421 
117,159 
73,476 
1,034,865 
5,068,586 
1,514,262 
' 58,036 
113,148 
53,767 
1,438,069 
1,150,920 
1,569,255 
. 903,270 
' 260,387 
7,389,101 
13,921,786 
2,178,934 
2,526,458 
236.336 
130,913 
186,031 
351,433,305 11,018,991 
3,318,850 
1,356,024 
810,274 
9,679,397 
727,441 
102-,928,072 
31,150,699 
1,312,105 
28.385 
70,563,333 
1,137,704 
473,087 
193,428 
3,083,077 
3,392.245 
10,518,012 
31,181,855 
8,248,019 
5,191,318 
90,852 
15,105,378 
190,635 
6,103,451 
1.514,262 
171,184 
1,491,836 
1,150,920 
1,569,255 
903,270 
260,387 
26,016,279 
236,336 
130,913 
186,031 
351,433,305 47,395 
1,500,951 
64,274 
298,062 
165,538 
45,278 
638,982 
246.042 
15,035 
156,003 
1,863,584 
69,059 
70,996 
5,242,883 
12,969,520 
326,031 
1,278,416 
5,997,477 
,80,675 
171,946 
5,465 
8,066,875 
5,518,758 
182,875 
36,168 
91,084 
37,241 
566,400 
27,188 
653.113 
1,789,212 
235,832 
5,943,553 
59.922 
1,546,924 
9,338 
31,738 
847,811 
151,679 
17,492 
2,381,263 
425,446 
101,545 
22,557 
14,146 
199,244 
975.860 
291,542 
11,173 
21,785 
10,352 
276,873 
221,588 
302,130 
173,908 
50,133 
1,422,631 
2,680,376 
419,512 
486,422 
45,502 
25,205 
35,817 
67,661,825 2,121,498 
638,982 
261,077 
156,003 
1,863,584 
140,055 
19.816,850 
5,997,477 
252,621 
5,465 
13,585,633 
219,043 
91,084 
37,241 
593,588 
653,113 
2,025,044 
6,003,475 
1,588,000 
999,490 
17,492 
2,908,254 
36,703 
1.175,104 
291,542 
32,958 
287,225 
221,588 
302,130 
173,908 
50,133 
5,008,941 
45,502 
25,205 
35,817 
67,661,825 
TABLE 5 : Additional payments for application year 1993 
28 Country 
Code 
224 
236 
244 
247 
248 
257 
264 
272 
276 
280 
284 
302 
306 
310 
328 
334 
346 
350 
366 
352 
370 
375 
382 
395 
452 
460 
465 
467 
473 
801 
806 
807 
812 
816 
817 
819 Country 
Sudan 
Burkina Faso 
Chad 
Cape Verde 
Senegal 
Guinea-Bissau 
Sierra Leone 
Côte d'Ivoire 
Ghana 
Togo 
Benin 
Cameroon 
Central African Republic 
Equatorial Guinea 
Burundi 
Ethiopia 
Kenya 
Uganda 
Mozambique 
Tanzania 
Madagascar 
Comoros 
Zimbabwe 
Lesotho 
Haiti 
Dornirica 
Saint Lucia 
Saint Vincentand the Grenadines 
Grenada 
Papua New Guinea 
Solomon Islands 
Tuvalu 
Kiribati 
Vanuatu 
Tonga 
Western Samoa Product 
Cotton 
Hides & Skins 
Cotton 
Cotton 
Fresh bananas 
Groundnut products 
Groundnuts 
Palm nuts and kernels 
Coffee 
Cocoa 
Cocoa products 
Coffee products 
Cocoa products 
Cocoa 
Coffee 
Shea nuts and oil 
Palm products 
Cocoa products 
Coffee 
Coffee 
Cotton 
Wood 
Cocoa 
Coffee 
Hides & Skins 
Coffee 
Hides & Skins 
Coffee 
Coffee 
Hides & Skins 
Copra 
Cashew nuts and kernels 
Coffee 
Coffee 
Cloves 
Cloves 
Essential oils 
Cotton 
Wool 
Mohair 
Cocoa 
Coffee 
Fresh bananas 
Fresh bananas 
Fresh bananas 
Cocoa 
Fresh bananas 
Nutmeg & Mace 
Cocoa products 
Coffee 
Cocoa 
Copra 
Copra 
Copra 
Copra products. 
Copra products. 
Oil cake Transfers 
calculated for 
1993* 
1,632,015 
784.283 
704,412 
4,439,203 
355,847 
15,123,888 
83,256 
30.192 
1,595,960 
1,011,865 
8,678,825 
23,171,128 
15,738,690 
1,937,651 
1,718,417 
281,571 
662,709 
20,076,543 
12,499,807 
4,596,992 
724,213 
1,022,587 
850,805 
19,577,265 
273,078 
27,643,660 
4,949,289 
16,048,216 
43,995,103 
439,021 
157,685 
1,568,577 
8,300,103 
3,752,286 
542.199 
317,372 
493,726 
5,439,952 
969,858 
69,814 
80,947 
4,471,097 
3,368,793 
3,481,275 
5,452,277 
213,084 
589,553 
1,445,902 
4,335.550 
7,878,555 
599,132 
3,622 
36,024 
547,401 
110,264 
111,859 
16,602 
285,000,000 Transfers 1993 
after 
adjustment ** 
1,632,015 
784,283 
704,412 
4,439,203 
355.847 
15.123,888 
83,256 
30,192 
1,595.960 
1,011,865 
8,678,825 
23,171,128 
15,738,690 
1,937,651 
1,718.417 
281,571 
662,709 
20,076,543 
12,499,807 
4,596,992 
724,213 
1,022.587 
850,805 
19,577,265 
273,078 
19,318,033 
2,380,559 
16,048,216 
43,995,103 
439,021 
157,685 
1.568,577 
8,300,103 
3,752,286 
542,199 
317,372 
493,726 
5,439,952 
969,858 
69,614 
80,947 
4,471,097 
3,368,793 
3,481,275 
5,452,277 
213,084 
589,553 
1,445,902 
4,335,550 
7,878,555 
599,132 
3,622 
36,024 
265,281 
110,264 
111,859 
16,602 
273,823,523 Redistribution of 
the amounts after 
adjustment 
66,613 
32,012 
28,751 
181.192 
14,524 
617,301 
3,398 
1,232 
65,141 
41,301 
354,238 
945,761 
642,396 
79,088 
70,139 
11,493 
27,049 
819,451 
510,197 
187,632 
29,560 
41,738 
34,727 
799,072 
11,146 
7.88,492 
97,166 
655,030 
1,795,720 
17,919 
6,436 
64,024 
338,780 
153,155 
22,131 
12,954 
20,152 
222,039 
39,586 
2,850 
3,304 
182,494 
137,502 
142,093 
222,542 
8,697 
24,063 
59,016 
176,961 
321,574 
24,454 
148 
1,470 
10,828 
4,501 
4,566 
678 
11,176,477 Total 
by 
country 
98,625 
28,751 
181,192 
14,524 
617,301 
4,630 
106,442 
1,299,999 
642.396 
160.720 
27,049 
1,329,648 
258,930 
34,727 
810,218 
885,658 
655,030 
1,813,639 
70,460 
338,780 
175,286 
33,106 
222,039 
42,436 
185,798 
137,502 
142,093 
222,542 
91,776 
498,535 
24,454 
148 
1,470 
10,828 
4,501 
5,244 
11,176,477 


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