Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the National Adaptation Strategy to the EU Sugar Reform, Swaziland (2010)

Swaziland has benefited from the European Union (EU)/Africa Caribbean Pacific (ACP) Sugar Protocol, allowing it to export a quota of sugar to the EU market at a preferential price. In 2006, the EU common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector was reformed. This reform involved a reduction of the EU sugar prices by 36% by 2009, which is reflected in the price obtained by ACP Sugar Protocol countries. As a consequence, the EU denounced the Sugar Protocol with effect from 1/10/2009. The European Commission (EC) has proposed an assistance scheme to help the Sugar Protocol countries who depend on the EU market, to adapt to the new situation.