The European Chamber's Maritime Manufacturing & Industrial Services, International Liner Shipping, and Energy Working Groups are delighted to invite you to attend the next cross-working group meeting on "Closing the Gap for Shipping Decarbonisation: Global Market Insights and Trends on Renewable Methanol" which is tentatively set on 31st October 2024 morning, in Chamber's Beijing and Shanghai office and via Teams online.

• 2024-10-31 | 10:00 - 12:00
• Chamber Beijing office / Shanghai office / Teams online

European Chamber Agriculture, Food and Beverage Working Group are delighted to invite you to attend the working group meeting of “A Sip from Regenerative Agriculture”, on Thursday, 24th October 2024, 15:00-16:30; to present an overview and best practices on regenerative agriculture in Chinese food and beverage industry.

• 2024-10-24 | 15:00 - 16:30
• European Chamber Beijing Office and Online

The sixth episode of the Interpreting the EU's Toolbox series will focus on the Forced Labour Regulation, which will likely be adopted in the coming months. The regulation will enable the EU authorities to investigate goods, supply chains, and manufacturers with suspected links to forced labour. Products made with forced labour will be banned from the EU’s internal market and intercepted at the EU’s borders. On Tuesday, 22nd October at 16:00, representatives from the European Commission will provide an overview of the Forced Labour Regulation. A representative of the International Labour Organization will then present its overall framework (conventions, standards and guidelines) pertaining to forced labour. Finally, Stuart Newman, Senior Advocacy & Engagement Advisor at amfori, will share best practices for companies on how to tackle forced labour across their supply chains.

• 2024-10-22 | 16:00 - 17:30
• European Chamber Beijing Office and Online

The Finance and Taxation Working Group, together with multiple working groups, will hold a working group meeting titled Fiscal Foresight: Unlocking China's Consumption Tax Reform after the Third Plenum on October 17, 2024 from 9 am to 11:30 am at the European Chamber's Beijing Office and online.

• 2024-10-17 | 09:00 - 11:30
• European Chamber Beijing Office + Microsoft Teams

The European Chamber, the IP SME Helpdesk and the EU SME Centre are therefore pleased to invite you to our next Working Group meeting, Intellectual Property Protection in a Brave New Digital World: A Primer for SMEs, which will take place on 17th October from 15:00-17:00 offline in Beijing and online. During this training, Ms Lisa Lu, China IP SME Helpdesk IP Business Advisor, will discuss the importance of IP protection in the software industry and will cover the different types of IP used to protect software, including but not limited to copyright, patents and trade secrets. Mr Charles Feng, Director of the International Business Department and a Senior Partner of Tahota (Beijing) Law Firm will cover data privacy and IP, and Mr Phillip Neumann, Business Development Manager at AppinChina, will provide practical information on relevant processes and best practices for companies in areas such as software licensing.

• 2024-10-17 | 15:00 - 17:00
• European Chamber Beijing Office

The EU SME Centre and the European Chamber are pleased to invite you to our next Working Group meeting on 25th June 10:00-11:00 online, where Chief Economist at Coface, Junyu Tan, will provide an overview of the 2024 Coface China Corporate Payment Survey.

• 2024-06-25 | 10:00 - 11:00
• Online

The fifth episode of the Interpreting the EU's Toolbox series will focus on EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), which was given a green light by both the European Parliament and the Council of the EU in April and May 2024 respectively. On Thursday 20th June at 15:30, Zsofia Kerecsen, a representative from DG JUST at the European Commission will provide an online overview of the CSDDD, which will be followed by a presentation by Herbert Smith Freehills Partner Antony Crockett on how to approach compliance with this regulation in China.

• 2024-06-20 | 15:30 - 17:00
• Online

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the 2024 kick-off meeting of the Financial Services Working Group (WG). The meeting will be held on 17th April, 15:30 – 17:00, offline at the European Beijing and Shanghai Offices, as well as online. Please note this event is only open to industry representatives.

• 2024-04-17 - 2024-04-17 | 15:30 - 17:00
• European Chamber Beijing and Shanghai Offices

The Aviation and Aerospace Working Group cordially invites you to participate its 2024-2025 Chair Election and PP Discussion on Tuesday 2nd April 2024, from 9:30 to 11:00.

• 2024-04-02 | 09:30 - 11:00
• European Chamber Beijing Office and Online Meeting

On Thursday, 28th March, the ILS Working Group will hold its 2024-2025 working group chair and vice chair elections. The meeting will also include discussions on PP 2024/2025, upcoming EU-China Maritime Dialogues, agenda of Ningbo Meeting with the MoT, as well as 2024 ILS work plan.

• 2024-03-28 - 2024-03-28 | 14:00 - 16:00
• Office Unit2204, ShuiOn Plaza,333 Huaihai Zhong Road, Shanghai, 200021