| Information collected during interviews with industry experts demonstrated that canned tuna production in ACP countries was not a lost cause. |
| Yet the increasingly robust civil society in the ACP states had no chance of participating in the negotiations on the current Cotonou Agreement. |
| The judge properly addressed the question of whether it was ACP or Mr Atkinson who was the client instructing the company's solicitors. |
| They are the key to re-vitalizing the development relationship between the EU and the ACP countries. |
| Yet, the partnership has kept apace with an ever changing international environment to best respond to ACP needs. |
| With this new agreement, the EU and ACP States are geared up to better deliver to the poor and to strengthen their political relations. |
