Services Summit 2010, 17 March Parliament House
Meeting on services trade liberalisation with EC Official Mauro Petriccione, 19 Feb Sydney
On 19 February in Sydney the Delegation of the EC in Canberra has offered ASR members a chance to speak with the visiting European Commission officials attending the annual EC-Australia Trade Policy Dialogue in Canberra. Officials include Mauro Petriccione (Director, Directorate B – Services and Investment, Bilateral Trade Relations, DG TRADE). There are a number of service-related topics included in the Dialogue's agenda. ASR is discussing with EABC a possible a joint EABC-ASR lunch, alternatively ASR with meet separately with the Commission officials later that afternoon.
Please register interest with the ASR secretariat.
Background
The annual EC-Australia Trade Policy Dialogue is to be held in Canberra on Thursday 18 February.
For this meeting ASR has advocated:
DFAT is cautioning that there is not much chance of rapid progress on any of these items, but regardless ASR remains committed to finding some ‘low hanging fruit’ within this agenda, possibly jointly with Pascal Kerneis at the European Services Forum.
Information on Mauro Petriccione
1. EU-CHINA TRADE AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS: A SNAPSHOT
Mauro Petriccione ..............................................................................................
Interesting recent article by Mauro Petriccione in which he states:
the priorities for both the EU and China
remain, inter alia:
• A stable, predictable, transparent regulatory environment, both in
general, as regards economic activities of firms, and more specifically
as regards environmental protection and other public policy goals, the
objectives of governments in pursuing these goals and the public
support available to ensure that public policy goals and private
economic activity develop in a harmonious manner.
• A favourable investment climate, in terms of freedom of investment
within a framework of clear, stable, non-discriminatory regulation,
achieving legal certainty and removing obstacles to investors that are
not absolutely necessary to achieve legitimate public policy goals.
• Effective protection of intellectual property rights, especially patents,
without which innovation and the technology transfers that are
needed both for economic efficiency and a low-carbon economy will
not happen, or at least not at the necessary speed and to the extent
necessary.
• Non-discriminatory, open and transparent public procurement policies,
to obtain for public projects the best goods, services and technologies
available at the best possible price, to the benefit of users and the
environment.
Mr Bruce Gosper, Deputy Secretary, DFAT, Services and the WTO, luncheon talk to members, 12:30pm 5th August 2009, Minter Ellison, 88 Phillip st, Sydney, contact secretariat for registration.
Global Services Summit, Washington 13,14 October 2009, participants include USTR Ron Kirk, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy, Australian Trade Minister Simon Crean. Contact ASR about participation in Australian delegation. Click here for program >>
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