13On 14 November 2001, the ministerial conference of the WTO, held in Doha, granted the European Union a waiver from Article I of the GATT 1994 (‘the Doha waiver’), to the extent necessary to enable the European Union to grant to products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States (‘the ACP States’) the preferential tariff treatment required under the Partnership Agreement between the members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, signed in Cotonou on 23 June 2000 (OJ 2000 L 317, p. 3) and approved on behalf of the Community by Council Decision 2003/159/EC of 19 December 2002 (OJ 2003 L 65, p. 27, ‘the ACP-EC partnership’), without being required to extend the same preferential treatment to like products of any other WTO member.
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