Dear R&D Working Group members,

After having been on the road across China and having visited 8 major cities since May this year, the EU Delegation’s Research and Innovation Tour is finally arriving in Shanghai on October 13-14. Comprising of about 14 EU member state representatives and other prominent EU stakeholders, the EU-led delegation with be engaged in a full set of activities, seminars and local stakeholder meetings in the Shanghai area. One of these meetings is with the European Chamber’s R&D Working Group, kindly facillitated by the EU Delegation, where we will have the opportunity to liaise with them by presenting our position paper and align on our key messaging.

You are strongly encouraged to participate in this important EU-industry Feedback Meeting, which is to take place on Tuesday 13th October at 16:00-18:00 at the European Chamber Office in Shanghai, and provide your inputs.

• 2015-10-13 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber Shanghai

Dear Working Group Member,

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the next Private Equity & Strategic M&A Working Group meeting on Monday, 12 October 2015, 4pm-6pm at our Shanghai and Beijing offices. The Working Group will have the pleasure of inviting Mr Herve Roesch, PWC Deals Partner Shanghai who will give us the latest updates on the China M&A market.

• 2015-10-12 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber Shanghai

Dear Working Group Members,

The next joint IPR Working Group and Legal & Competition Working Group meeting is scheduled to take place on Friday 25th September in Shanghai and Beijing.

This meeting will give us the opportunity to explore commonalities between the issues faced by both working groups, exchange insights and provide a platform for all those burning questions on IP, competition law or other legal issues you might have.

To kick off discussions, Paul Ranjard, Chair to the IPR Working Group in Beijing, will be holding a presentation on procedural issues for foreign litigants including POA for foreign litigants, transparency of procedures and case law.

• 2015-09-25 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber Shanghai

Dear Working Group Members,

The next joint IPR Working Group and Legal & Competition Working Group meeting is scheduled to take place on Friday 25th September in Shanghai and Beijing.

This meeting will give us the opportunity to explore commonalities between the issues faced by both working groups, exchange insights and provide a platform for all those burning questions on IP, competition law or other legal issues you might have.

To kick off discussions, Paul Ranjard, Chair to the IPR Working Group in Beijing, will be holding a presentation on procedural issues for foreign litigants including POA for foreign litigants, transparency of procedures and case law.

• 2015-09-25 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber Shanghai

European Union Chamber of Commerce in China

Agriculture, Food & Beverage Working Group Meeting

Presentation on New Updates of Food Safety Law and SGS Lab Visit

Time: 14:00-16:30, Tuesday 22 September

Venue: 5F, The 3rd Building, No. 889, Yishan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai

Language: English

• 2015-09-22 | 14:00 - 16:30
• SGS-CSTC Standards Technical Services Co., Ltd.

Dear Working Group Members,

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the next Energy Working Group Meeting: “Demand Side Management: recent policy developments in Shanghai”.

It will be held on 21 September, 16:00 – 18:00h at the European Chamber Shanghai office. The meeting will begin with guest speaker Mr.Xiao Mingwei, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economics and Information Technology, speaking on recent policy developments in Demand Side Management. This will be followed by a Q&A session. For the next part of the meeting, Joseph Van Der Elst, Chair of the Energy Working Group, and Daniel Sellers, EUCCC Energy Business Manager, will lead a discussion on the this year’s Position Paper and the action plan for the Energy WG in the coming months.

• 2015-09-21 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber Shanghai

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the next Pharma Working Group Meeting . It will be held on 16 September, 12:00 – 14:00h parallel at the European Chamber Shanghai and Beijing offices via tele-conference. The working group meeting will cover Pricing/Bidding and the Lobby Plan for this year’s Position Paper. We are lucky to have an expert guest speaker from the Shanghai Center for Health Development Studies to discuss the evolution of pricing policies in China.



We will be ordering catering from Wagas for approx. 50 RMB per person.

• 2015-09-16 | 12:00 - 14:00
• European Chamber Shanghai&Beijing Office

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the next PCR Working Group Meeting . It will be held on 14 September, 11:00 – 13:00h parallel at the European Chamber Shanghai and Beijing offices via tele-conference. The working group meeting will cover the Lobby Plan for this year’s Position Paper and the Organizational Structure and Working Plan of the PCR WG. This is a good opportunity to engage with the WG and help decide the policy and working initiatives for the WG.

• 2015-09-14 | 11:00 - 13:00
• European Chamber Beijing and Shanghai Offices

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the next F&T Working Group Meeting . It will be held on 14 September, 14:00 – 16:00h parallel at the European Chamber Shangha. The working group meeting will feature a guest speaker from Deloitte, Candy Chen, who will speak on the business tax to VAT reform . This will be followed by a working group discussion on this year’s position paper and lobby plan.

• 2015-09-14 | 14:00 - 16:00
• European Chamber Office Shanghai, Shui On Plaza, Unit 2204; European Chamber Office Beijing, 4th Floor, Room C411A

A legal update on Private Equity in China

• 2015-09-07 | 16:00 - 18:00
• European Chamber Shanghai Office, Unit 2204