Dear Working Group member,

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the next Energy Working Group meeting + Chair Election. It will be held on Wednesday, 15 March, 16:30 – 18:15 at the European Chamber offices in Shanghai and Beijing via video conference.

• 2017-03-15 | 16:30 - 18:15
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C412

Healthcare Equipment Working Group Meeting

• 2017-03-14 - 2017-03-14 | 16:00 - 18:00
• 1) European Chamber Beijing, Office C411A, Beijing Lufthansa Center, Liangmaqiao Lu 50, Chaoyang District, Beijing 2) European Chamber Shanghai, Shui On Plaza, Unit 2204, 333 Huai Hai Zhong Road

Even if we don’t take into account companies who may be actively cutting headcount, employee turnover and occasional employee disputes are an unavoidable reality. Companies need to protect themselves and ensure they are ready to deal with the difficulties of terminating an employee, especially one who they feel may be engaging in practices that are corrupt or potentially damaging to the company’s reputation.

• 2017-03-14 | 08:30 - 10:00
• Westin Chaoyang Hotel, Water Room, 3rd Floor, Beijing

The next IPR Working Group meeting is scheduled on Tuesday 14 March in Beijing, Shanghai & South China where we will hold the 2017-2018 IPR Working Group Chairs elections. Next to that, we will also be kicking off the 2017/18 IPR Position Paper (PP) discussion. Therefore we strongly encourage you all to attend this meeting and have your say in our lobbying priorities, strategy and direction of the group for the year to come.

• 2017-03-14 | 09:00 - 11:30
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C411A

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the Quality and Safety Services Working Group 2017 Kick-off Meeting. At the meeting, a roundtable discussion on the explosion incidents of SAMSUNG Galaxy Note 7 will be conducted along with a presentation on a joint research project with the State Council Development and Research Center.

• 2017-03-13 | 14:00 - 16:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C411A

Following the gesture made by President Xi at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January in further opening up and boosting foreign investment in China, the State Council issued the Notice on Several Measures on Promoting Further Openness and Active Utilization of Foreign Investment on 17 January, 2017. To offer a comprehensive perspective on the opportunities and challenges for the environmental protection and energy conservation sectors in the coming years, the chamber will invite representatives from ECIPU of MOFCOM to introduce government-level projects and have a roundtable discussion regarding the regulatory environment with our members in these sectors.

• 2017-03-10 | 09:00 - 11:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C411A

According to the PRC Disabled Persons Security Law, which became effective on 1st July, 2008, enterprises are obliged to hire disabled persons as a specified ratio of their total staff.
In order to strengthen implementation of the PRC Disabled Persons Security Law, on 9th September, 2015, the Ministry of Finance, the State Tax Bureau and the China Disabled Persons Federation jointly issued the Methods on Levying, Use and Management of Disabled Persons’ Employment Security Fund (Methods‌). The Methods stipulate that all enterprises in China must make contributions to the Fund if they do not hire a sufficient number of disabled persons.

• 2017-03-09 | 15:00 - 17:00
• Marriott Hotel Northeast, Salon 5, B2 Floor

The one-day event aims to present and showcase some of the latest development of 5G and IoT in both the EU and China, covering topics including EU-China S&T cooperation priorities in the fields of ICT, standardisation, cooperation on large scale pilots and testbeds, as well as to identify potential ways forward towards better cooperation between both sides in these two fields.

• 2017-03-09 | 09:00 - 18:30
• JW Marriott Hotel Beijing Central

The Aviation and Aerospace Working Group cordially invites you to the next working group meeting on Tuesday March 7th, from 4:00-6:00 pm at EUCCC Sennheiser room. At this meeting, we will host the 2017 chair election and organize discussions to identify the advocacy priorities for the Aviation and Aerospace Working Group for the year ahead.

• 2017-03-07 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Sennheiser Room

2016 was an intense year for policymaking and reform in many logistics-related sectors, including shipping industry, express delivery, road transport and customs affairs. 2017 is critical as we will see the implementation of the new policies and a deepening of the reform. The Logistics Working Group is going to organise its first working group meeting in 2017 to discuss the challenges we will face in the years to come and our lobby strategy and focus in 2017.

• 2017-03-07 | 14:00 - 16:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C411A