The European Commission Receives Mandate to Negotiate an Investment Agreement with China Go back »

2013-10-22 | All chapters

The proposed EU-China investment agreement would be the EU’s first ever stand-alone investment agreement and would aim to streamline the current bilateral investment protection agreements in place between China and 26 EU Member States into a single text. Importantly, another objective of the agreement includes to improve access for European investments into the Chinese market – addressing important issues like mandatory joint ventures and other barriers that European companies face when investing in China. The European Chamber developed a common stance on suggested requirements for an investment agreement following a survey and numerous meetings with our member companies. This position, which maintained that negotiations must include pre-establishment market access issues, was passed to relevant EU authorities in a number of meetings including with the DG Trade Director responsible for negotiations as well as at an EU Parliamentary hearing in Brussels on EU-China Investment Policy. The adoption of the mandate is warmly welcomed by the European Chamber.

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