Despite some countries of the SADC-EPA group - Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique and Namibia - initialling an Interim Economic Partnership Agreement, IEPA, in 2007, they decided not to apply this agreement. Instead, all the members of the SADC group, including South Africa in 2010, agreed to rather negotiate towards an inclusive and comprehensive EPA as a group. Negotiations are still in progress.