Impact Study: UNESCO-Aschberg Programme for Artists and Cultural Professionals

Interestingly, the importance of implementing a specific joint mechanism for EPA monitoring, to inform the EPA’s Second Five-Year Review, scheduled for 2020, is now foreseen, thus confirming the political commitment of both parties to ensuring that the objectives of the Agreement are realized. It is alsoworthmentioning that at the outset of the implementation period, the Directorate General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture for the European Commission indicated that it is contemplating the possibility of setting up an implementing body for the cultural provisions of the EPA, in particular for the purposes of the PCC. It was suggested that such a body, in the form of a task force or an implementing committee, could be composed of representatives from the CARICOM Secretariat, the European Commission’s Directorate Generals for Trade, Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG Connect) and Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC) 15 . As yet, such a body has not been established.

28 Culture in the CARIFORUM-EU EPA

15. Implementing cultural provisions of CARIFORUM-EU EPA: How do they benefit the Caribbean cultural sector? , European Centre for Development Policy Management, Discussion Paper No. 118, June 2011.