Related

21st Annual Meeting of the EU-Japan Business Round Table

May 15 2019

The 21st annual meeting of the EU-Japan Business Round Table (BRT) took place in Brussels on Wednesday, 15 May 2019.

The main BRT website has two pages on the annual meeting - one has photos, videos and documents from the 15 May meeting and subsequent meeting with PM Abe, and the other has tweets and other social media articles about the discussions.

The BRT has more than 50 members - senior executives from leading EU and Japanese companies / business organisations. They meet annually, together with senior representatives of the Japanese and EU Authorities to discuss issues of common interest affecting industry and broader society, and to agree detailed recommendations which will be submitted to the EU and Japanese Authorities.

The 2019 meeting will addressed a wide range of issues:

  1. Future EU-Japan Cooperation on Climate Issues, Innovation, and Sustainable Finance for Growth
  2. Digital Economy (IoT, AI, data governance, eHealth, 5G & networks)
  3. The UK's Withdrawal from the EU (Brexit)
  4. Bilateral Investment / Investment Cooperation in Third Countries (Quality infrastructure investment and international initiatives as the foundations for sustainable growth)
  5. Helping SMEs take advantage of the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)
  6. EU-Japan overall economic cooperation in a challenging global environment
  7. Circular Economy, SDGs (Climate, environment, social)
  8. Building on the EU-Japan EPA - Advancing regulatory cooperation, free trade, WTO reform, untying market distorting measures
  9. Developing the EU-Japan agri-food industry under the EU-Japan EPA

More information about the BRT can be found on its website

EU-Japan Centre's News

More
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) has pre-announced a call for applications for the 2024…
The Horizon Europe call for EU-Japan collaboration projects (Topic: HORIZON-JU-SNS-2024-STREAM-B-01…
The EU-Japan Centre’s office in Tokyo is regularly publishing "Industry and Policy News”. By…
The European Institute of Innovation & Technology invites you to apply to their one-of-a-kind,…
The EU-Japan Centre is pleased to start a new weekly service by publishing brief summary of the…

Events

More
Online and in Japan
17/06/2024 - 12/07/2024
17-21 June 2024, → mandatory week online (open to SMEs and large companies) 08-12 July 2024, → optional week in Japan (open only to SMEs who have completed the first online week) PROGRAMME…
Japan
01/08/2024 - 31/03/2025
  The organization of the Vulcanus Programme is pending reception of a grant by the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation for the Japanese fiscal year 2024-2025: Please note that this call is…
Subscribe to
our newsletters

The EU-Japan Centre currently produces 5 newsletters :

  • EU-Japan NEWS - our flagship newsletter covering the Centre's support services, information about EU (or Member States) - Japan cooperation
  • Japanese Industry and Policy News
  • “About Japan” e-News (Only available for EU companies / EU organisations)
  • Japan Tax and Public Procurement Weekly Tender Digest (Only available for EU companies / EU organisations)
  • Tech Transfer Helpdesk Newsletter
Subscribe