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Press Release, BRT Co-Chairman Dr. Jean-Yves Le Gall hands over the 2012 Joint Recommendations to Mr. Herman Van Rompuy, European Council President, 23 April 2012
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14th BRT Annual Meeting - Tokyo, 3 & 4 April 2012: “UNLOCKING GROWTH POTENTIAL IN EU-JAPAN BUSINESS”
The EU-Japan Business Round Table took place on 3 and 4 April 2012 at Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, under the co-chairmanship of Messrs. Jean-Yves Le Gall (Chairman & CEO, Arianespace) and Hiromasa Yonekura (Representative Director and Chairman, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.). At the meeting, European and Japanese members of the BRT set out their recommendations. The main themes of discussion for this year’s meeting included: (1) EU-Japan FTA/EPA: Opportunities and Challenges, (2) Europe-Japan Cooperation in Energy Related Issues, and (3) Growth Strategies and Re-industrialisation of Advanced Economies.
The EU-Japan Business Round Table (BRT) was created in 1999 and is made up of around 50 CEOs/senior executives from leading EU and Japanese firms and meets once a year to review the factors affecting all aspects of business cooperation between the EU and Japan, and to make policy Recommendations to the European Commission and Japanese Government. The BRT Annual Meeting concludes with the submission of detailed Recommendations to the EU and Japanese Authorities on how they can promote trade, particularly focusing on recommendations for regulatory reform.
Each year, the Japanese Government and European Commission submit Progress Reports outlining how they have enacted the Recommendations submitted at the previous BRT Annual Meeting. EU Commissioners, Japanese Government Ministers and senior civil servants always attend the Round Table, to give oral reports and take part in a Q&A session.
The work of the BRT is prepared by the Round Table’s working parties. Currently there are working parties on: “Trade Relations, Investment and Regulatory Cooperation”, “Life Sciences & Biotechnology; Healthcare & Well-Being”, “Innovation; Information & Communication Technologies”, “Financial Services; Accounting & Taxation”, “Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development”. New ones are created in response to need.
Pictures
Pictures of the EU-Japan Business Round Table meeting held in 2012 in Tokyo under the co-chairmanship of Messrs. Jean-Yves Le Gall (Chairman & CEO, Arianespace) and Hiromasa Yonekura (Representative Director and Chairman, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.).
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Contact Persons:
- EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation (Japan), tel +81 3 6408 0281, fax 6408 0283
- EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation (Europe) Mr. Simon Craig Gray, tel + 32 2 282 00 47, fax + 32 2 282 00 45, Email
