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benefit from the uropean Development
Fund which provides aid ($1,000 millions
for the period 1969 to 1975) for approved
*projects.
Further details of the Convention are
attached as Annex I to this brief.
7.
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, have
concluded two successive agreements (the
Arusha Conventions) with the Community
along the lines of the Yaoundé Convention
with the exception that there has been no
provision for aid. Nigeria also concluded
a similar agreement with the Community
which expired last year without ever
having been ratified.
8.
Association under Part IV of the
Rome Treaty. This applies to dependent
territories only. The arrangements are
similar to those in the Yaoundé Convention
except that, as the territories concerned
are not independent, there are no insti-
tutional provisions.
9.
Association under Article 238 of the
Rome Treaty. This is a much more flexible
arrangement which has been used in the
case of Greece, Turkey, Morocco and
Tunisia. Algeria, Malta and Cyprus have
given indications that they are consider-
ing concluding such association agreements
with the Communities, perhaps as a develop-
ment from the initial stage of a
preferential trade agreement.
In essence
a trading relationship is negotiated which,
while basically a free trade area, is
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