Japan Business Council in Europe September 2014 Japan Business Council in Europe (JBCE) a.i.s.b.l Tel: 32-2-286.53.30 Web: http://www.jbce.org/ e-mail: [email protected] Overview • The European organisation representing companies of Japanese parentage operating in Europe • Mission: Build a bridge between Japan and the EU, enhancing Europe’s understanding of Japanese companies and their contribution to the European economy Contribute to EU public policy by sharing our members’ expertise with decision-makers across sectors Promote a favourable and predictable environment in which Japanese companies of all sectors can compete for sustainable growth in Europe • Established in 1999 ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe 2 Overview • 69 member companies • Multi-National global companies Global sales of the members 1.2 trillion Euro in 2012. • Multi-Industry Membership ICT, electric appliances, chemicals, transportation equipment, machinery, wholesale trade, precision instruments, pharmaceutical, railway, textiles & glass products. ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe 3 Unique Position of JBCE Parentage of Europe of Japan Business Europe In Europe Digital Europe ORGALIM Operation JBCE ACEA CEFIC Keidanren EBC In Japan Chamber of Commerce ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe JEITA JAMA JEMA JERIA JCCA 4 Unique Position of JBCE (Image) Industry Auto/Auto-parts ACEA CREPA ICT Digital Europe Consumer Electrics CECED Chemical CEFIC Medical Equipment COCIR Air-Co EPEE … ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe JBCE Business Europe 5 Collaboration Parliament EU authorities EU JETRO JMC Japanese Mission to EU JBCE E Inquiry information B Input C Position paper Meeting Monitoring Relevant organisation E WG Commission Japan Information exchange B A D WG A D Technical input Council Collaboration Other organisation Other organisation Other organizations in EU (Approach) ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe 6 Members 69 companies (as of 1 September 2014) • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ADEKA CORPORATION AGC Europe S.A. AISIN SEIKI Co., Ltd. Alpine Electronics (Europe) GmbH ASAHI KASEI CORPORATION Azbil Corporation Bridgestone Europe NV/SA Canon Europa N.V. Casio Europe GmbH Chino Corporation Daikin Europe N.V. DENSO EUROPE B.V. DIC Europe GmbH East Japan Railway Company Epson Europe B.V. Fuji Electric Europe GmbH FUJI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. FUJIFILM Europe GmbH Fujitsu Limited ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Fujitsu General (Euro) GmbH Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. Hebron, S.A. Hitachi, Ltd. Honda Motor Europe Ltd, Belgian Branch Horiba, Ltd. JEOL Ltd J.Plus.Co.Ltd JVC KENWOOD Corporation KAWASAKI MOTORS EUROPE N.V. KOBELCO ECO-SOLUTIONS CO.,LTD Komatsu Europe International N.V. Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH KYOCERA Document Solutions Europe B.V. Kyowa Hakko Europe GmbH Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Europe GmbH Mitsubishi Corporation International (Europe) Plc Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V. 7 Members • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Europe, Ltd. MITSUBISHI MOTOR R&D Europe GmbH Mitsui & Co.Benelux SA/NV Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. Mitutoyo Europe GmbH NAGASE (Europa), GmbH NEC Europe Ltd. NIKON CORPORATION Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd., Belgian Branch OLYMPUS CORPORATION Omron Europe B.V. ORIENTAL MOTOR CO., LTD. Panasonic Europe Ltd. Pioneer Europe N.V. Ricoh Europe PLC SCAS Europe S.A./N.V. ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Sharp Electronics (Europe) GmbH Shimadzu Europa GmbH Shimano Europe Holding B.V. Showa Denko Europe GmbH Sony Belgium, bijkantoor van Sony Europe Limited Sumitomo Chemical Europe S.A./N.V. Sumitomo Corporation Europe Limited TDK Electronics Europe GmbH Tokyo Electron Limited Toray International Europe GmbH Toshiba of Europe Ltd. Tosoh Europe B.V. Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA Yamaha Music Europe GmbH YASKAWA Europe GmbH Yokogawa Europe B.V. 8 Structure Planning Koshi Noguchi, Toshiba Board of Directors President Secretary General Noriaki Hashimoto, Corporate Vice President Corporate Representative – EMEA Toshiba Corporation Yukihiro Kawaguchi Public Affairs Hirokazu Uchio, Canon Arnaud Brunet, Sony Lars Brückner, NEC Masayoshi Takidera, Hitachi Kinko Tsuji, Shimadzu Yoshiharu Ishimura, Panasonic Tetsuro Uruno, Fujitsu Tetsuya Yokota, Sharp Mihai Scumpieru, Mitsubishi Electric Regina Döller Mitsui Chemicals Treasurer CSR Yukako Kinoshita, Hitachi Hirokazu Uchio, Canon Information Society Trade Policy Tetsuya Yokota, Sharp Sandra Alverà, Panasonic Environment Lars Brückner, NEC Standards & Conformity Kinko Tsuji, Shimadzu Consumer Policy Corporate Policy Koshi Noguchi, Toshiba Masahiro Fujita, Sumitomo Chemical ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe 9 Environment (Priority) Strengthen proactive monitoring and engagement with European environmental policy debates and contribute to the policy-making focusing on the following priority areas Top priorities RoHS Directive - Category 8&9 REACH Regulation - Nano materials - ADCA, C,C'-azodi (formamide) ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe Other areas Footprint Smart city/community/ICT for energy efficiency Eco-design (ErP) Regulations WEEE Directive Resource efficiency ELV Directive Batteries Directive Eco-label/green public procurement BPR (Biocidal Products Regulation) 10 Environment (Activities) - Environment Committee (every two months) - Working Groups (WG) and Issue-Groups (IG) ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe RoHS - RoHS Recast IG - Category 8&9 IG WEEE - WEEE Recast IG REACH - REACH WG - Nanomaterial IG - ADCA (Azodicarbonamide) IG Other - Air-co WG - Footprint IG - Biocidal Product Regulation 11 Environment Committee Chair Vice Chairs Lars Brückner, NEC Mihai Scumpieru, Mitsubishi Electric Regina Döller, Mitsui Chemicals RoHS Recast IG Danny Van Roijen, Pioneer Category 8&9 IG Working / Issue Groups Kinko Tsuji, Shimadzu WEEE Recast IG Mihai Scumpieru, Mitsubishi Electric BPR IG Robert Shaw, PANASONIC REACH WG Nanomaterial IG Air-conditioner WG ADCA IG Lars Brückner, NEC Rodney Ayre, Mitsubishi Electric Kenichi Ichihara, Fujitsu General Hideo Kawasaki, Adeka Masato Kanagawa, Hebron (Otsuka Chemical) Footprint IG Regina Döller, Mitsui Chemicals Michio Ikeda, Toshiba 12 ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe Trade (Priority) Analyze the remaining issues, following the end of the scoping exercise, and enhance the communication with policy-makers in corporation with European/ Japanese industrial organisations in order to intensify the discussions with competent European authorities achieving FTA/EPA between the EU and Japan. ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe 13 Trade (Priority) - ITA (Information Technology Agreement) development - GSP reform - Customs classification - Access to the EU public procurement market - Russias WTO compliance - Other EU international trade policies such as IPR (e.g. counterfeit, IP related agreement) and FTA strategy with third countries ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe 14 Trade (Activities) Trade Committee 12/2012 05/2013 09/2013 10/2013 02/2014 03/2014 04/2014 05-2014 - Japan-EU EIA, Russia WTO accession - EU Japan EPA/FTA status updates - EU Japan EPA/FTA status updates - Dinner “EU-Japan FTA : Negotiators’ Perspectives - EU Japan EPA/FTA status updates - EU Japan EPA/FTA Lunch Round Table (Susumu Tanaka) - EU Japan EPA/FTA status updates (Antonio Parenti, Manabu Miyagawa) - EU Japan Relationship Dialogue with Business Europe (Shinzo Abe) Position papers 103/2013 - Press Release on the launch of negotiations towards a comprehensive EUJapan EPA/FTA 11/2013 - Press Release on the result of EU-Japan Summit in Tokyo 11/2013 - Co-sign Global Association joint letter on ITA expansion 11/2013 - Co-sign with 20 European Industrial Organizations for the EU-Japan Summit in Tokyo 04/2014 - Co-sign with 26 European Industrial Organizations for the negotiation of the 15 ⓒ Japan Business Council in EuropeEU-Japan FTA 07/2014 Public consultation on a green goods initiative launched by the European CSR (Priority) 1. Reporting and Transparency, Supply Chain Management 2. EU-Japan Best Practice Comparison 3. Diversity, Stakeholder Dialogue • • • • Demographic Change Update CSR Trend in EU Social Responsibility Investment Sector-based CSR issues ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe 16 CSR (Activities) CSR Committee 9/2012 10/2012 11/2012 1/2013 3/2013 5/2013 9/2013 10/2013 12/2013 3/2014 6/2014 - EU's Business and human rights for ICT sector guidance document - Meeting with CBCC - CSR Forum Japan presentation (METI, So-Tech Consulting) - JBCE Round Table on Business and Human Rights - Gender balance (Reding’s Cabinet member ) - Resolution on CSR and Non Financial information disclosure - Proposed disclosure requirements of diversity information - Latest policy development on responsible sourcing on minerals from conflict affected regions / Tax transparency and its link to financial and non-financial reporting - Update on Non-Financial Information Disclosure / Conflict Minerals - Update on Conflict Minerals - Presentation and Q&A “Public Consultation on Commission's strategy on CSR 2011-2014 Recent Position Papers 9/2012 2/2013 6/2013 9/2013 8/2014 - Response to the GRI G4 public consultation - Comment for the ICT Sector Guidance on Business and Human Rights - Public consultation on a possible EU initiative on responsible sourcing of minerals originating from conflict-affected and high-risk areas - JBCE Letter on Non-Financial Information Disclosure (EP, Permanent Representations) - Public consultation on the “Public Consultation on Commission's strategy on CSR 2011-2014 ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe 17 Information Society (Activities) - Monitor and take appropriate actions for the personal data protection regime in the EU. The focus will be on the General Data Protection Regulation proposed by the European Commission in January 2012. - Monitor IP related issues such as copyright levy policy in the EU - Monitor the progress of the EU Digital Agenda. RFID application, e-Government, e-Health and cloud computing will be priority areas. ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe 18 Information Society (Activities) Information Society Committee 3/2010 - Personal data protection scheme in the EU and Japan (Mr. Kato, Consumer Affairs Agency; Dr. Horibe, Professor Emeritus at Hitotsubashi University) 3/2012 - Proposed reform of EU Data Protection Framework (Linklaters LLP, Japanese mission to the EU) 11/2012 - EU Data Protection Reform (Linklaters LLP) 12/2012 - EU Data Protection Framework (Weber Shandwick) 2/2013 - GDPR – State of Play (Linklaters, Weber Shandwick) 6/2013 - JEITA’s Lobbying status 10/2013 - Recent Developments on Japanese Data Protection Framework (Prof. Horibe) 12/2013 - Recent developments on GDPR (Weber Shandwick) Recent Position Papers 1 /2011: JBCE Response to the European Commission’s ‘Consultation on the Commission’s comprehensive approach on personal data protection in the European Union’ 7 /2012: ICDP High level statement on Data Protection 2 /2013: Joint Paper with JEITA for Amendments to the Proposed EU Data Protection Regulation 10/2013: The Industry Coalition for Data Protection (ICDP) ‘s joint call ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe 19 Corporate Policy (Priority) JBCE Report 2014 Recommendations to both the EU and Japan • To build an area of common regulatory environment • Towards a common regulatory environment • Cooperation for high level international standards and rules • A common policy on the control of chemicals • Opening up Science, Technology & Innovation programmes with each other • Harmonisation of regulations on environment and energy efficiency including labelling rules • Expand the benefits of AEOs • Strengthening cooperation on the fight against counterfeiting, piracy and contraband goods • Continued efforts for swift conclusion of ITA expansion • Public procurement • Railway safety certification requirements • To support the timely development of business • Social security contributions • Liberalisation of the movement of intra-corporate transferees in the framework of an EPA/FTA • Personal Data Protection Regime • To secure the optimisation of the returns on investment • The BEPS Action Plan • Avoidance of double taxation • Transfer pricing • Mutual participation exemption ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe Recommendations on the policy of the EU • Europe 2020 and the Single Market Act • Revision of high customs tariffs on audiovisual products and passenger cars • Chemical Regulations • REACH • Appropriate approach to Endocrine disruptor • RoHS • CLP Regulation • Nanomaterial • Taxation • Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base • Merger Directive • The fundamental reforms of VAT regime under consideration • Company Law / Corporate Social Responsibility • Conflict minerals • Country by country reporting (CBCR) • Non-financial disclosure • European Private Company • Product safety and market surveillance • Product safety and market surveillance package proposal • Market Surveillance under the New Legislative Framework • Consumer protection • Environmental footprint • Competition Policy • The contributions of the JBCE to the European Commission’s public consultation • Requests for information by the European Commission • The deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure • Trade Defence Instruments • Issues that have been resolved 20 Corporate Policy (Priority) Monitor and assess the impact of the existing and emerging EU policies related to corporate activities including: - Taxation in the EU, its Member States and Japan that could affect international transactions - Company law - Better regulation - Data protection ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe 21 Corporate Policy (Priority) - Human resource issues such as harmonisation of work permits for intra-corporate transferees - Competition policy - Prepare position papers and input to relevant bodies including the European Commission - Communicate with the European Institutions and other European/ Japanese bodies such as the EU-Japan Business Round Table in order to promote and facilitate the abovementioned activities. ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe 22 Corporate Policy (Priority) Corporate Policy Committee / Competition Policy Study Group 1 /2011 2/2011 2/2012 2/2012 3/2012 3/2012 11/2012 05/2013 09/2013 12/2013 2/2014 4/2014 - Consultation on the Single Market Act, Green paper on the future of VAT - Green Paper on the future of VAT (European Commission, DG Taxud) - EU Data Protection Regulation and Japanese new proposal on social security numbers (Dr. Horibe) - New Proposal on EU Data Protection Framework (Linklaters LLP, Japanese mission to the EU) - CCCTB (DG Tax), Unitary Patent (DG Markt) - Global harmonisation of patent systems (Japan Patent Office) - Key Issues in JBCE comprehensive proposal report 2010 - BRT (Business Round Table) preparation - EU Merger Regulation - Public consultation on EU Merger Regulation - Recent developments on BRT / Updates on JBCE Report - EU-Japan FTA updates status (Mr. Miyagawa, Mission of Japan to the EU) - EU-Japan FTA status (Mr. Antonio Parenti, European Commission, Mr. Miyagawa, Mission of Japan to the EU) Recent Position Papers 1 /2011 - JBCE Response to the European Commission’s ‘Consultation on the Commission’s comprehensive approach on personal data protection in the European Union’ 5/2011 - JBCE position on GREEN PAPER on the future of VAT 6/2013 - JBCE Response to the Simplified procedure 9/2013 - Comments to the European Commission Staff Working Document “Towards more effective EU Merger Control” 10/2013 - JBCE Response to the Minority shareholdings 23 ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe Standards & Conformity (Priority) - Monitor and study European/ International standardisation and conformity processes for environmental relating issues, in particular, RoHS and EuP/ErP (Eco-design) directives - Monitor and study on development of the New Legislative Framework (NLF). Watch especially the harmonisation in market surveillance including control at the custom. ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe 24 Standards & Conformity (Priority) Standards & Conformity Committee 5/2012 - The New Legislative Framework 6/2012 - Discussion for JBCE position about NLF ( New Legislative Framework ) issue 9/2012 - NLF , LVD implementation, General Product safety directive 12/2012 - The new 'Blue Guide’ 02/2013 - The new 'Blue Guide’ 04/2013 - The new 'Blue Guide’ Public Consultation 09/2013 - Product safety and Market surveillance 03/2014 - Recent development of LV, EMC, RTTE and Medical directive 06/2014 - European Products Regulation, other Recent Position Papers 11/2013 - JBCE comments/suggestions to the draft of blue guide (version 30 September 2013) ⓒ Japan Business Council in Europe 25
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