New Distribution Capability (or NDC) made its debut in 2012 when Lufthansa, British Airways, American Airlines were the first to adopt NDC. Generally speaking, NDC is essentially an XML standard created by the International Air Transportation Association (IATA) to allow airline service providers to deliver rich content and ancillaries to their customers. Being a new communication protocol, NDC enables essential information directly transferred to online travel agencies, GDSs, and travel management companies.

• 2019-12-19 | 09:30 - 11:30
• European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C405

Session 1. Update on the recent Chinese policies on Hydrogen and its application in automotive sector(Chinese language only)中国氢能政策展望及氢能在汽车领域的应用（会议语言为中文 Chinese Language, your are encouraged to take your own translator to do the whisper translation)
Session 2. Outlook on the global development of hydrogen (English language)

• 2019-12-13 | 09:00 - 12:20
• European Chamber Beijing Office, Office C405

How can the growing popularity of sports be leveraged by businesses? How can all types of companies use sports to enhance and position their brands? Cross-industry collaboration has brought value and proven successful for many companies in China. What creative ideas can be sparked when collaborating with sports?

• 2019-12-12 | 14:00 - 16:00
• European Chamber Office Beijing, Room C405

中国加强社会信用体系建设，全面提升营商环境已进入新阶段。中国政府部门自2013年已发布近350项中央层面的法律、法规、政策，以及超过1000项地方管理规定，明确定义了企业社会信用体系。至2019年中期，社会信用体系下的多个机制已经开始运行，多项评级已全面覆盖中国境内所有企业。

• 2019-11-19 | 14:00 - 15:30
• Ballroom B, Hilton Beijing | 北京希尔顿酒店 里程宫B厅

Ministry of Ecology and Environment published the fundamental legislative regulation: Temporary Regulation Carbon Emission Right Trading Management (Draft for comments) in April 2019, and National Carbon Emission Registration and Trading System already has initial scheme, which indicated that the construction of National Unified Carbon Emission Market is accelerating, and national-level Carbon Emission relative regulation and rule is on the verge of implementation .

• 2019-11-19 | 10:00 - 12:00
• European Chamber Beijing Chapter, 4th Floor, Office C405, Lufthansa Centre

The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (European Chamber) and the American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham China) jointly invite you to attend this event on China’s Corporate Social Credit System (SCS) on November 11th at AmCham China Office.

• 2019-11-11 | 14:00 - 15:40
• Infinity Ballroom, Hilton Beijing | 北京希尔顿酒店 天元宫厅

As one of the basic schemes established by the Cybersecurity Law, the Classified Cybersecurity Protection Scheme (CCPS) will go beyond the protection of mere information systems required by the 2007 Classified Information Security System, to new areas such as cloud computing, mobile Internet, Internet of Things and industrial control, and will cover all networks in China apart from domestic and private ones.

• 2019-11-04 | 14:00 - 16:00
• European Chamber Beijing Chapter, 4th Floor, Office C405, Lufthansa Centre

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the next Automotive Roundtable on Thursday 12 September from 17h30 to 20h, organised by GI Events in cooperation with Autoköpfe, with European Chamber and British Chamber as Strategic Partner, and German Centre for Industry and Trade Beijing as Event Partner.

• 2019-11-01 | 17:30 - 18:40
• German Restaurant Brotzeit

On 26 August 2019, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress approved the revised Drug Administration Law (DAL). The revised DAL will come into effect on 1 December, 2019. New rules addressing market demands and social issues were incorporated into the comprehensive revision. Notably, these changes aim at rewarding drug innovation and discouraging misconduct.

• 2019-11-01 | 09:30 - 11:10
• European Chamber Beijing Chapter, 4th Floor, Office C405, Lufthansa Centre

With raising awareness of women equality and non-negligible achievements to the world, the stereotypes of gender images, roles and relations have gradually changed. However, it is still crucial for women to raise their voice to advocate for equal treatment and boost power to make contribution to the society. As the United Nations proposed in the Sustainable Development Goals, “Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world."

• 2019-10-29 | 14:00 - 16:00
• European Chamber Beijing Chapter, 4th Floor, Office C405, Lufthansa Centre