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Japan's Proposal For Regulatory Reform Dialogue
- List of Proposals discussed in Brussels meeting -

November 2004

A. Cross-sectoral Issues

A.1 Commercial Laws and Business Practices

  1. Early adoption of draft directive allowing offset of profits and losses across multiple EU member states
  2. Legal framework at EU level allowing cross-border mergers
  3. A European Private Company Statute
  4. Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
  5. Consultation procedures in EU member states
  6. Introduction of prior confirmation procedures for the application of laws and ordinances in the EU "No action letter"

A.3. Trade and Customs

  1. Change in tariff classification of digital video cameras (camcorders) and retroactive duty imposition
  2. Tariff classification for flat panel display
  3. The European Commission's proposal "obligating declaration 24 hours before customs clearance"

A.4. Information and Intellectual Property

  1. Early implementation of the Community Patent System
  2. Opposition to the protection of design right concerning repair parts of automobiles
  3. Data Protection Directive

A.5. Employment

  1. Overview

B. Sectorial Issues

B.1. Legal Services

  1. General comments
  2. Permission of legal services pertaining to home country laws by foreign lawyers in France
  3. Permission of legal services pertaining to third-country laws by foreign lawyers in Germany

B.2. Telecommunications

  1. Promotion of LLU (Local Loop Unbundling)
  2. Harmonization on the allocation of radio frequencies for Wireless radio LAN
  3. Ensuring government neutrality in competition

B.3. Financial Services

  1. General Request
  2. International Accounting Standards (IAS)

B.4. Broadcasting Services

  1. Enhancing international exchange of contents ("Television without Frontiers" Directives).

B.5. Automobiles, Marine Transport and Air Transport

  1. Japan-EU cooperation in realizing international harmonization of regulations for pedestrian safety
  2. Adoption of ECE Regulation No.94 and 95

B.6. Construction

  1. Registration of Japanese construction companies in Belgium and conditions imposed on unregistered construction companies

B7. Medicine/Pharmaceutical

  1. Countermeasures for the Parallel Import of Pharmaceutical Products in England and Germany
  2. Amendment price setting mechanism of Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) in England according to rate of capital gain
  3. Enforcement Scheme for Rebate for Pharmaceutical Products in Germany

B.8. Tourism

  1. Residence permit applications in Italy

C. Environmental Regulations

  1. General Requests
  2. New chemical regulations in EU:REACH system
  3. Directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), Directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (ROHS)
  4. Directive on Battery
  5. Directive on establishing a framework for the setting of Eco-design requirements for Energy Using Products (EuP)

D. Fundamental Matters Related to the Business Environment

D1. Work and Residence Permits

  1. Overview: Improving procedures for obtaining work and residence permits
  2. Proposal for a Council Directive on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purpose of employment and self-employed economic activities
  3. Proposal for a Council Directive related to the freedom to travel of third-country nationals in the territory

D.2. Driving Licenses

  1. General comments
  2. Problem of exchanging driving licenses in Greece

D.3. Social Security

  1. Eliminating the problem of double payment for social insurance premiums

D.4. Others (Improvement of Investment Environment)

  1. Measures against radical anti-animal experiment groups
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