Proposal for a Decision of the Council and the Representatives of the Member States, meeting within the Council, authorising the Commission to open negotiations with the ACP States with a view to amending the third ACP-EEC Convention, signed at Lome on 8 December 1984, the fourth ACP-EEC Convention, signed at Lome on 15 December 1989, and the fourth ACP-EC Convention as revised by the Mauritius Agreement of 4 November 1995. COM (99) 273 final, 9 July 1999