Following the signature of the Economic Partnership Agreement (E.P.A.) between the European Union and the Caricom-Cariforum countries, ACP Legal will analyze what legal tools will be necessary to build this vast and new free trade area.

To continue the work, a third conference is scheduled from February 25th. to 27th., 2010, to be held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Convinced that common measures on arbitration would make it possible for our small and fragile companies whose trade even with closer markets is difficult, to have access to an inexpensive, business-friendly Caribbean mechanism of arbitration, powerful and directly enforceable, Continuing in the trajectory of the Pointe à Pitre & Port au Prince OHADAC Conferences.

Conscious that the events which recently agitatedGuadeloupe, Martinique and Guyana, highlight the importance of further integrating the French West Indies in their Caribbean environment.

Convinced that, beyond the French Caribbean, OHADAC has garnered significant support, local OHADAC chapters are forming in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, Panama, Mexico, Colombia, and Jamaica; and experts signing on to the project and exchanging views and information, even beyond the project’s natural borders, for example in China, Europe, the United States, and of course Latin America,

The ACP Legal association, in furtherance of the OHADAC project has the pleasure of inviting you to take part to our next Conference on Arbitration, co-sponsored by the Association Andrés Bello of French-Latin American Lawyers. The Conference will be held June, 2010, in Havana, under the aegis of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce and the Union of Cuban Lawyers. The Conference will open at the renowned Aula Magna of the Havana Faculty of Law; the currently anticipated location for the rest of the Conference is the Meliá Havana Hotel. In view of this Conference a preparatory meeting of experts from the entire Caribbean will be called toward the end of December 2009.

ACP Legal also participates in the General Overseas Working Conference created by the French President, Mr. Nicolas SARKOZY, through its membership in the Commission focused on Guadalupe’s integration in its Caribbean environment.