Japan-EU Regulatory Reform Dialogue in Brussels

January 26, 2001

1. The meeting between Japan and the European Union on regulatory reform will be held on Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th January 2001 in Brussels.

2. The plenary session will be on the 30th. The Japanese delegation consisted of officials from relevant ministries will be lead by Koujiro SHIOJIRI, Deputy Director-General of the Economic Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The EU delegation made of representation of relevant directorates of the European Commission and of governments of the Member States will be headed by Mr. WESTERLUND, Director for relations with North-America, Australia, NZ, Japan and Korea, Directorate General External Relations, European Commission.

3. This meeting will mainly take up regulatory reform requests from the Japanese side.

4. Prior to the plenary session, preliminary meetings are programmed to be held on 29th. Japanese and EU experts will exchange their views on sectors such as financial services, telecommunication, information and intellectual property, company laws, visa and work permits.
   *This meeting will be held in the framework of Japan-EU Regulatory Reform Dialogue started in 1994. At the last meeting held in Tokyo in October 2000, Japanese and EU sides exchanged each other their lists of requests on regulatory reform and discussed mainly on the requests from the EU to Japan.
   For more information, contact the following officers:
   First International Economic Affairs Division, Economic Affairs Bureau,
   Assistant Director Mr. MITSUI (ext. 3527)
   Official Ms.WADA (ext. 3428)
   

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