IPR Working Group Lunch Roundtable with Top EU Officials Visiting from Brussels
20 October 2004
South Beauty Restaurant
BB88, Level 1 under Oriental Malls and the Grand Hyatt Beijing, closer to the west entrance of the malls
1 East Chang An Avenue
Tel: +86 10 8518 6971/72
Thierry Stoll, Deputy Director-General at DG Internal Market, and Paul Vandoren, Acting Director at DG Trade, are in charge of IPR issues for the European Commission and will travel to Beijing mid-month to take part in the 1st Session of the EU-China IPR Dialogue between the European and Chinese governments (encompassing all Chinese IPR agencies) on 21st and 22nd October. They will also participate at the EU-Japan IPR Seminar earlier in the week, and hold bilateral meetings with, among other authorities, the State Intellectual Property Office, the National Copyright Administration of China and the Supreme People?? Court.
In order to ensure that the EU Commission is fully briefed about the views of European industry in China ahead of the Session of the EU-China Dialogue, the European Chamber is pleased to organise a lunch roundtable focusing on the state of IPR protection in China today. The aim of the event is to help create a better understanding of IPR-related issues between EU policy officials in Brussels and European business operating in China. Indeed it represents a valuable opportunity for you to voice your IPR-related concerns directly to EU decision-makers while learning more about what the EU Commission is doing on the trade policy side to promote IPR enforcement in China.
Paul Ranjard, Chair of the Beijing IPR Working Group, has kindly offered to moderate discussion, and the Secretariat will invite members from the Automotive, Cosmetics, IPR, Legal, Petrochemical, Chemical, Oil & Gas, and Pharmaceutical Working Groups to participate.
Grateful if you could please confirm your participation by Monday 18th October, on nruble@euccc.com.cn. We kindly request that guests cover their individual lunch expense of RMB 215, which includes drinks.
Biographies
Thierry Stoll is Deputy Director General at the EU Commission with responsibility for the Internal Market, active in the regulation of IPR in EU. Prior to his nomination, he was Director in charge of Services, Electronic Commerce, Intellectual and Industrial property and the Media (1999-2002). Before that, he was in charge of overall coordination of Internal Market policy, including direct taxation and free movement of people (1993-1999). Mr. Stoll joined the Commission in 1993, having spent most of his career in European affairs, both with the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in particular as Deputy Permanent Representative of Luxembourg to the European Union from 1988 ??1992), then as Ambassador to Belgium and NATO from 1992-1993 and the Commission (as a member of President Thorn?? Private office from 1981 to 1984). Mr. Stoll studied law in Luxembourg, Aix-en-Provence and Geneva; he is also a former pupil of the French Ecole Nationale d??dministration.
Paul Vandoren is Acting Director in charge of intellectual property in the Directorate General for Trade of the EU Commission. He is also in charge of new technologies and public procurement. He was previously the Head of Unit of "Copyright and neighbouring rights, including international aspects" in the Directorate General for Internal Market and Financial Services of the European Commission. Before that, he was Deputy Head of Unit for Relations with the United States. He graduated in law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and at the College of Europe (Bruges). He also holds a Master's Degree in Comparative Law from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). He has published several articles in the following areas: competition law; anti-dumping policy; interface between competition and antidumping; EU-US economic relations; copyright and related rights.