OCTA

OCTA - the of Overseas Countries and Territories Association – was established as a non-profit organisation in 2002 and has since worked to coordinate OCTs’ views with respect to a common position to be taken in relation to matters dealing with the OCTs vis-à-vis the Commission and the Member States. Within OCTA there is an executive committee, ExCo, consisting of French Polynesia, Aruba, Saint Pierre & Miquelon, British Virgin Islands, St. Helena, Montserrat and Greenland.

Find out more about the OCTs and OCTA here: http://www.octassociation.org

Each year a ministerial meeting between the ministers of the OCTs and a Tripartite Forum between the Member States, the Commission and the OCTs are held. The ministerial meeting sets out the visions, strategy and action plan which is subsequently implemented by the ExCo while the Forum outlines the visions for cooperation between the parties. This January at the 10th OCT-EU Forum Greenland became Chair for OCTA i 2012.