Advocacy Actions
Lobby letter on the Administrative Measures on Mandatory National Standards
On 24th September various Working Groups sent a lobby letter on the implementation of the Administrative Measures for Mandatory National Standards.
Read moreEuropean Chamber Secretariat Meets With Representatives of the Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO) representatives
On 25th June, the European Chamber secretariat led by Ms. Ziting Zhang, Head of Government Affairs, met with Mr. Hideo Kawabuchi, Deputy Director-General of JETRO Beijing and Representative of the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry, Government of Japan.
Read moreMeeting with General Operation Department of General Administration of Customs in China (GACC)
Director General of the General Operation Department, Jin Hai of General Administration of Customs in China (GACC) introduced the newly merged organization and the GACC's reform achievements in 2018. GACC representatives from the General Operation Department, Customs Control Department, Enterprise Management Department, Supervision and Internal Auditing Department, and Import and Export Food Safety Bureau also attended the meeting and answered Chamber representatives' questions.
Read moreMeeting with First Counsellor of Trade and Investment Section, Delegation of the European Union to China
The key lobby works in the past six months and the lobby plan of EUCCC Cosmetics Working Group in the following six months were introduced in this meeting. In addition, closer cooperation between the cosmetics working group and the trade and investment section of the delegation was highlighted, and some detailed plans were discussed as well, including better use of the coming EU-China regulators meeting and technical meeting. Due to the change of the management team of the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), and the senior working level officials on the Cosmetics Department, we both agreed that it would be a good opportunity for us to introduce EU practice and regulations of cosmetics to the Chinese officials.
Read moreLobby Letter to Health Food Evaluation Center of CFDA on the Impact of Marking Allergens in the Warning of Labels
The Cosmetics Working Group submitted a lobby letter on the Impact of Marking Allergens in the Warning of Labels to the Evaluation Centre. Member companies faced new requirements from the experts on the products labels, which are new requirement and without transitional period given. It will have huge impact to the industry, especially the EU brands. In addition to a lobby letter to explain that there has no urgency or necessity of have such a new requirement, we also asked for a meeting to exchange with evaluation center face to face after the National Day holiday.
Read moreComments on the Second Call for Comments Draft on the Cosmetics Supervision and Administration Regulations (CSAR) By Ministry of Justice (MOJ)
Cosmetics Working Group submitted the comments on the Second Call for Comments Draft on CSAR by MOJ on 31 Aug. For this round of call for comments, MOJ only chose some associations and organizations to collect written comments, and EUCCC was one of the selected ones. It was a very good opportunity for members to raise concerns and make comments directly. Our comments was mainly about products management, ingredients management, equal treatment to imported products and information disclosure.
Read moreComments to NPC on the E-commerce Law (Draft for Third Review)
The European Chamber's submitted collated comments on the E-commerce Law (Draft for Third Review) to the National People's Congress.
Read moreMeeting on the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020
On 29th November, 2017, the European Chamber had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Laurent Bochereau, Head of Science, Technology and Environment Section, EU Delegation to China to our joint Working Group meeting on Horizon 2020. Mr Bochereau presented the recently released Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020 and share his insights on cooperation opportunities for industries, followed by a Q&A session with the members.
Read moreComments to NPC on E-commerce Law (Draft for Second Review)
The European Chamber's submitted collated comments on the E-commerce Law (Draft for Second Review) to the National People's Congress (NPC).
Read moreComments to NPC on Anti-Unfair Competition Law (Second Draft for Review)
On September 22, 2017, the European Chamber submitted feedback received from members regarding the call for comments on the second review draft of revision on Anti-Unfair Competition Law issued by the National People’s Congress (NPC).
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