Hybrid Workshop - Grow Green: Energy Efficiency | EU-China Cooperation and Opportunities for European SMEs

• 2022-12-05 | 16:00 - 17:40
• Online via zoom

The 20th Communist Party Congress wrapped up last week with the appointment of the new Politburo and Standing Committee. Key questions remain, such as what this new leadership will mean for China’s policy trajectory and economic prospects.

• 2022-11-10 | 16:30 - 18:00
• C405, European Chamber Beijing Office/Zoom online

The Paris Agreement set an ambitious goal to limit global warming to well below 2°C, preferably to 1.5 degrees, in comparison with pre-industrial levels, which has prompted a series of measures to achieve this target. In response to mitigate climate change, countries and businesses have adopted global decarbonisation pledges to fulfil their Environmental, Social and Corporate governance (ESG) commitments. Decarbonisation has become a global imperative and one of the top priorities for governments, companies, and society at large.

• 2022-10-27 | 16:00 - 17:30
• KPMG Beijing Office/Zoom Online

While Hong Kong put an end to its quarantine policy for inbound travellers on 26th September, marking a significant step towards re-engaging with the rest of the world, it remains ambiguous when China will ease its zero COVID measures.

• 2022-10-13 | 14:00 - 15:30
• Zoom/European Chamber Office Beijing, Room C405

The European Green Deal sets out a clear path towards realising the European Union (EU's) ambitious target of a 55 per cent reduction in carbon emissions compared to 1990 levels by 2030, and to become a climate-neutral continent by 2050. As part of the EU Green Deal, a proposal for a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) has been introduced to prevent the risk of carbon leakage. China exports more manufactured goods and services to the EU than any other country; therefore the CBAM proposal and the amendments adopted by the European Parliament on 22nd June 2022 have raised concern among Chinese stakeholders.

• 2022-08-24 | 14:30 - 16:00
• Zoom/European Chamber Office Beijing, Room C405

关联方之间的进口货物交易，一直是海关和税务局实施转让定价审查的重点领域。然而由于理论框架、法规依据等方面的不同，海关和税务局在转让定价审查中的关注重点和立场取向往往存在差异，客观上增加了企业的转让定价方案同时获得海关与税务局认可的技术难度。2022年5月18日，深圳海关和深圳市税务局联合发布的《关于实施关联进口货物转让定价协同管理通告》在探索转让定价领域的协同管理机制方面迈出了可贵的第一步，提升了税法适用的确定性和可预期性。Import transactions between related parties have always been the focus of transfer pricing review by customs and Tax Bureau. However, due to the differences in theoretical framework, legal basis and other aspects, customs and Tax Bureau often have different focus and position orientation in transfer pricing review, which objectively increases the technical difficulty for enterprises to obtain the approval of customs and tax Bureau at the same time. On May 18, 2022, Shenzhen Customs and Shenzhen Tax Bureau jointly issued the Circular on implementing the Coordinated Management of Transfer Pricing of Related Imports, which made a valuable first step in exploring the coordinated management mechanism in the field of transfer pricing, and improved the certainty and predictability of the application of the tax law.

• 2022-08-19 | 14:00 - 15:30
• Deloitte Nanjing Office

From 1st September, China’s outbound data transfer security assessment measures will take effect, which require certain data transfers from China to destinations outside its borders be subject to security reviews. In the past recent, the Chinese regulators have issued several new (draft) rules for data handlers to implement the cross-border data transfer requirements of the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), namely passing a government-led security assessment, obtaining certification under a government-authorized certification scheme, and signing a standard contract with the overseas data recipient.

• 2022-08-17 | 16:00 - 17:30
• Zoom/European Chamber Office Beijing, Room C405

This seminar has postponed to 21st of July.
Environmental supervising is bound to involve environmental protection investigation, the negative result of which will cause serious liability that will be assumed by enterprise and its ESH department. During environmental protection investigation, ESH department shall be aware of the essential legal elements to be identified by the environmental protection authority which will lead to an effectively legal punishing. Further, don’t ally with any organ presumably beneficial to you once the investigation is under way. Therefore, the enterprise shall be prepared in daily compliance early on to fundamentally avoid administrative penalty.

• 2022-07-21 | 14:30 - 18:00
• Yangzi Room, Jinling Hotel

China’s Cybersecurity Law, Personal Information Protection Law, and Data Security Law have established the following channels for lawful cross-border data transfers, namely passing a security assessment conducted by the cyberspace authorities, obtaining a personal information protection certificate, and signing a standard contract with the overseas data recipient.

• 2022-07-20 | 16:00 - 18:00
• Zoom/European Chamber Office Beijing, Room C405

In the second edition of the EU-China Green Development Series, the European Chamber is delighted to welcome a distinguished group of experts from leading research institutes and global specialists in the energy sector, who will present on the status quo of corporate RE procurement in China and address the key challenges and opportunities in the market.

• 2022-06-17 | 15:00 - 16:30
• C405, Beijing Lufthansa Center/Zoom Online