Supervisory structure

CTA's current supervisory structure was described in the Cotonou Agreement, 2000.

At the top, as the diagram shows, is the ACP-EU Council of Ministers. Its members are drawn from two bodies - the ACP Council of Ministers and the EU Council of Ministers. Reporting to these two Councils are the ACP Committee of Ambassadors and the Committee of Permanent Representatives to the EU. These two Committees jointly make up the ACP-EU Committee of Ambassadors.

The ACP-EU Committee of Ambassadors is CTA's supervisory authority.

The money for running CTA and implementing its activities is provided by the European Development Fund (EDF). All EU Member States contribute to the EDF.

Each year, CTA draws up a Draft Programme of Activities for the following year. It presents this to the annual meeting of the CTA Advisory Committee. Made up of 15 ACP members and 15 EU members, the Advisory Committee reviews CTA's activities in the previous year and considers the Draft Programme of Activities. The programme, along with the views of the CTA Advisory Committee, is then submitted to the ACP-EU Committee of Ambassadors for approval and funding.

LINKS
• Advisory Committee
• ACP-EU Council of Ministers
• ACP-EU Committee of Ambassadors
• ACP Secretariat
• European Commission
• ACP-EC Cotonou Agreement
• ACP-EU Joint Assembly
• European Economic and Social Committee
• EU Council Secretariat
• CDE: Center for the Development of Enterprise
• ACP Business Forum
• COLEACP: Liaison Committee Europe- Africa-Carribean-Pacific