The Cotonou Agreement of 2000 established a unique partnership between the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) and the European Community and its member states. The agreement includes a revision clause which allows it to be adapted every five years until 2020.
The report was adopted unanimously and without amendments, recommending that Parliament gives consent to the second revision of the agreement. The rapporteur and the committee, however, express the strongest reservations about parts of the Cotonou Agreement which “do not reflect the position of the European Parliament and the values of the Union” and urges all parties to revise the unsatisfactory clauses during the next revision of the agreement, "including the explicit introduction of non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation”.