Meeting with DE CONNECT

2014-08-18 | Beijing

On 18th August, the ICT Chairs briefed DG Kostas GLINOS for R&D, EU Commission on ICT indsutry's concerns and market access barriers to the China market. The conversation covers main obstacles such as access to China R&D Fund, Standard issues, information security, IPR and limited ICT market opening for foreign businesses. DG Kostas expressed the willingness of continue support for ICT WG and also proposed to create pilot EU-CN ICT projects for market entry, which is not limited to the Horizon 2020 but also other fund resources from EU Commission. In addition, DG Kostas confirmed that ICT WG members will be invited to join the next EU-CN IT Dialogues with MIIT in the future.