Evidence coverage: 1975–1981. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
No distinct predecessor currency is established in the loaded view.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Lomé aid legally denominated in basket EUA.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
Lomé aid legally denominated in basket EUA.
C1542Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
Decision 75/250 defines the Lomé aid EUA as a nine-currency basket valued using daily market rates.
C652Decision 80/1184 replaces the EUA with ECU for covered ACP assistance and previous-convention operations from 1 January 1981.
C656Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Decision 75/250 defines the Lomé aid EUA as a nine-currency basket valued using daily market rates.
arts.1–2
Specific basket EUA and aid scope; not a blanket identity with older gold-based European units of account.
Metadata end date is not used in place of operative later legislation.
The decision’s preamble benchmarks the initial EUA value to the IMF’s 28 June 1974 SDR value; it does not establish SDR-to-EUA currency replacement.
preamble
Specific basket EUA and aid scope; not a blanket identity with older gold-based European units of account.
Metadata end date is not used in place of operative later legislation.
The December 1978 resolution specifies identical initial ECU and EUA value/composition and plans EMS establishment for 1 January 1979.
Annex 1, sections 1.2 and 2.1, PDF pp.8–9
The 1 January 1979 start is a plan in this resolution; the later operational agreement is separately dated.
EUA value/composition continuity does not imply retail banknotes.
Decision 80/1184 replaces the EUA with ECU for covered ACP assistance and previous-convention operations from 1 January 1981.
arts.1 and 3
Sectoral substitution applies from 1 January 1981.
It is not the ECU’s first creation or a universal 1981 replacement of every European unit.
From 1 January 1981, specified ACP financial assistance and operations under previous conventions switched from EUA to ECU accounting. This is a sectoral absorption into the existing ECU, not proof of the final use of every EUA account.
Articles1 and3
Sectoral substitution applies from 1 January 1981.
It is not the ECU’s first creation or a universal 1981 replacement of every European unit.
Lomé aid legally denominated in basket EUA.
Article1
Specific basket EUA and aid scope; not a blanket identity with older gold-based European units of account.
Metadata end date is not used in place of operative later legislation.