Tag: transatlantic business dialogue

Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen will today (9 November) lead a high-level delegation to the United States for talks on eliminating remaining regulatory obstacles hampering trade and investment between the two economic giants. The two sides hope to strike a deal on a number of key issues, including common standards for biofuels trading. 

The Commission hosted last month the first high-level EU-US Regulatory Cooperation Forum in Brussels. The initiative seeks to minimise trade barriers in the world's single largest bilateral trade relationship.

The Commission has announced that EU and US authorities have agreed to work towards mutual recognition of accounting standards across the Atlantic.

A group of over 50 European NGOs has urged the new Commission to "curb the excessive influence of corporate lobby groups" over EU institutions by tightening up transparency requirements.

Björn Stigson, the President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, is positive about the future of CSR, seeks more trade liberalisation and wants more monetisation of nature's resources.

Most multinational investors in Central Europe acknowledge that EU enlargement will affect their business, but very few have made any budget provision to cover the costs, a new survey shows.

In the margins of the EU-US Summit on 25 June, Enterprise Commissioner Liikanen and Trade Commissioner Lamy will participate in the relaunch of the New Transatlantic Business Dialogue.

The European business community has called for a constructive debate on corporate social responsibility in an open letter to Commission President, Romano Prodi.

A new survey of corporate readiness for enlargement, released by Eurochambres, states that almost 90 percent of enterprises in Central Europe still feel insufficiently informed on EU legislation. The survey also observes that half of the businesses in the candidate countries have not yet started organised preparations to join the EU Single Market.