At this European Chamber event, two PSU experts, Andrew Houlbrook and Hanna Severin, and Xiaofan Chen from AWA Asia will take participants through several case studies and present how to do Market Research and identify sales platforms and dig in the dark to collect admissible evidence.

• 2017-10-25 | 16:00 - 17:50
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Shui On Plaza, Unit 2204

Industry concentration in special parks and enforcement of environmental and safety regulations are leading to an increasing number of company relocations. Join us in this seminar to learn from Taylor Wessing, InterChina and Festo about the Chinese legal framework and real experiences.

• 2017-10-24 | 09:00 - 11:30
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

The European Business in China – Position Paper is the European Chamber’s primary annual publication. The 17th edition of the Position Paper offers Chinese policy-makers 795 recommendations that draw directly from the knowledge and expertise of the European Chamber’s more than 1,600 member companies.

• 2017-10-24 - 2017-10-24 | 18:30 - 20:00
• Fairmont Peace Hotel 和平饭店

The European Chamber is delighted to welcome Christian Kessel, head of Bird & Bird’s International Automotive Sector Group. During the workshop he will focus on contract law issues in the automotive supply chain in China, such as general purchasing terms of OEMs, warranty issue and statutory guarantees.

• 2017-10-19 | 14:30 - 18:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Shui On Plaza, Unit 2204

The European Chamber is delighted in welcoming Vivian Wu, a partner at Baker McKenzie and Lars Ake Severin, CEO at PSU China Consulting, to highlight steps companies should undertake to ensure they have appropriate compliance programs put in in place to respond to whistle blowing. This advice extends to how companies should respond if an employee brings forward accusations of misconduct or how they should react if they are subject to a dawn raid by authorities.

• 2017-10-19 | 16:00 - 18:00
• Four Seasons Hotel, QING I

Ms. Angela Mou, Vice President, Corporate Communication of Tetra Pak Greater China will share Tetra Pak’s idea and practices in driving environmental excellence, and keeping sustainability as part of the core business development and to inspire people to be part of the change through the cooperation with various partners.

• 2017-10-19 | 09:00 - 10:30
• The European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

With the new application system for foreigners’ work permit implemented on April 1st 2017 and the 2017 Foreign Permanent Resident ID starting to process in June in Shanghai, the batch of newly promulgated policies have drawn much attention as well as confusion. How has this new system been implemented in Shanghai over the past months? Which lessons can be learned from the visa application experiences in practice?

• 2017-10-18 | 16:00 - 17:50
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204

The European Chamber is delighted to welcome Dr Yukon Huang, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and a former World Bank Director for China, advisor to the World Bank, ADB, AIIB and various governments and corporations, to share with participants his view on the upcoming Party Congress, based on his book “Cracking the China Conundrum: Why Conventional Economic Wisdom is wrong”.

• 2017-10-17 | 09:00 - 10:30
• INTERCONTINENTAL SHANGHAI PUDONG

After the implementation of IATF 16949 in October 2016 China’s Auto Industry needs to update its quality management systems. Since China is holding more than 43% of all ISO/TS 16949 Certificates, it is the biggest market for Auto Quality Management System Certification and quality is the key for the success of the Chinese Automotive Industry. Therefore Automotive Roundtable will provide the platform to present and discuss the importance of quality management systems in China. The attending experts will moreover discuss potential improvements for Chinese quality management systems.

- in cooperation with Autoköpfe –
- Strategic Partner: EU Chamber –
- Event Partner: German Centre for Industry and Trade Beijing

• 2017-10-17 | 17:45 - 20:45
• German Restaurant Brotzeit (for dinner) & German Centre for Industry and Trade Beijing Co. Ltd. (for seminar)

The European Chamber is glad to invite you to a dialogue on the new regulations on soil and groundwater pollution that will take place on Thursday, 21st September, 9:00-11:00 in the European Chamber Shanghai office.

China's public enemy number one is environmental pollution. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, the authorities have considered necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive. The European Chamber has invited several experts to address these new requirements and liabilities on the new regulations on soil and groundwater contamination for enterprises and the practical approach to prevent soil pollution.

• 2017-09-21 | 09:00 - 11:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204