Please join us at the next R&D Working Group meeting which will take place on Monday 12th September at 09:30 in Shanghai. We will be discussing a new EU project which aim to ensure that EU companies and Chinese companies have access on equal terms to research funding programs in both the EU and China. One of the key project objectives is for the project team to engage in direct consultation with European industry involved in R&D activities in China on their experiences with the Chinese government research funding application processes.

• 2016-09-12 | 09:30 - 11:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office

The European Business in China - Position Paper 2016/2017, which also includes the Investment Position Paper, will be published on 1st September. This will be our first meeting of the new 12-month advocacy cycle and we will discuss our advocacy plan for the year ahead.

• 2016-09-08 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office

The European Chamber in collaboration with FrenchTech Beijing is delighted to invite you to a joint Environment, Energy and Carbon Markets Working Group meeting on the Status of the Paris Climate Change Agreement & Low-Carbon Initiatives and Opportunities for the European Business Community.

• 2016-09-06 | 16:30 - 18:45
• European Chamber Shanghai Office

The European Business in China - Position Paper 2016/2017, which also includes the Banking & Securities Position Paper, will be published on 1st September. This will be our first meeting of the new 12-month advocacy cycle and we will discuss our advocacy plan for the year ahead.

• 2016-09-05 | 17:00 - 19:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office

European Union Chamber of Commerce in China
Legal and Competition Working Group Meeting (Beijing and Shanghai)
It will be held on Friday, 26 August, 14:30 h – 16:30 h at the European Chamber Beijing office. Members in Shanghai will join this meeting via videoconference.

• 2016-08-26 | 14:30 - 16:30
• European Chamber Shanghai Office

The European Chamber’s Construction WG would like to invite you to the next Construction Working Group meeting. It will be held on Monday, 22 August, 14:30 h – 16:30 h at the European Chamber Beijing office. Members in Shanghai will join this meeting via videoconference.

At this meeting, Mr. Xavier Sans-Powell, Deputy Head of Government Affairs at the European Chamber, will provide an overview about the high-level meetings and events that will take place in Beijing and Brussels in the next months.

The Construction Working Group is also willing to organize an event by the end of 2016, inviting high-level speakers in order to discuss the latest developments that took place on the Chinese market in the construction sector. In the context of this WG meeting, members will have the possibility to share their views and provide inputs about the details of the event.

• 2016-08-22 | 14:30 - 16:30
• European Chamber Shanghai Office

We will host a Joint-Working Group meeting with all relevant WGs to discuss the China Banking Regulatory Commission’s call for comments on the ‘Guiding Opinions on Supervision on 13th FYP for Information Technology of the Chinese Banking Industry’.

• 2016-08-15 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office

European Heating Industry Desk Meeting (BJ & SH)

• 2016-07-27 | 15:00 - 16:30
• European Chamber Beijing & Shanghai Office

The European Chamber is delighted to invite you to the next joint ICT, Cybersecurity and Information Security working group meeting at 14:00-16:00, Monday, 25 July 2016, to discuss the 2nd reading draft of the Cybersecurity Law

• 2016-07-25 | 14:00 - 16:00
• The European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

Since July 2014 the EU and 16 other members (Australia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Chinese Taipei, the European Union, Hong Kong (China), Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, Singapore, United States, Israel, Turkey and Iceland) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have been negotiating an Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA) to remove barriers to trade in environmental or "green" goods that are crucial for environmental protection and climate change mitigation.

WTO members participating in the EGA negotiations are committed to intensify work this year in order to conclude the negotiations as soon as possible, using among others political milestones such as high level G20 meetings. Recently the 14th Round of Negotiations was finished in the week of 20th June 2016 in Geneva.

Since Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA) is quite vital to environment/ energy business, we are delighted to invite negotiators from European Commission to share some recent updates about the EGA negotiations. During the meeting, you can also propose some concerns or suggestions to the negotiator.

• 2016-07-11 | 08:30 - 09:30
• European Chamber Shanghai Office