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The EU and Japan are major trading and investment partners who see cooperation on regulatory issues as a way of tackling the similar challenges they face: the global economic crisis, aging populations, the need for new industries, climate change, ensuring a strong global trading system and competing with emerging economies. In July 2008, the EU-Japan Business Round Table, a forum of 46 top executives of major EU and Japanese companies, welcomed progress made in recent years to develop trade and investment flows between the EU and Japan, but called for even closer cooperation in the future, with higher-level and more effective regulatory dialogues.

In February, top officials from the EU and Japanese Authorities hold the latest round of "EU-Japan Industrial Policy Dialogue" discussions. On Tuesday, 17 February - on the eve of their talks - a seminar brought together senior business figures and representatives of the EU and Japanese Authorities to discuss the nature and scope of future economic cooperation. It included keynote addresses from the Vice-Minister for International Affairs at the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry and from the Director-General of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Trade and a panel discussion ensuring a constructive and substantial exchange of views between senior industrialists and representatives of the Authorities.

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Mr. Julien GUERRIER, General Manager, EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation

Keynote Speakers:
Introduction to the topic:

Hiroyuki ISHIGE, Vice-Minister for International Affairs, Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry
Presentation - Speech

David O’SULLIVAN, Director General, Directorate-General for Trade, European Commission

Panel Discussion, chaired by Jörn KECK, Vice-President, Asia Institute Europe:

Hajime SASAKI, Chairman of the Board, NEC Corporation

Tom P HARDIMAN, Chairman, IBM International Treasury Services Co., Vice Chairman of the EU-Japan Business Round Table, Member of the Supervisory Board of the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation
Speech

Giuseppe MARESCA, Senior Vice President & Adviser to the Chief Operating Officer, Finmeccanica Member of the Italy-Japan Business Group
Presentation

John FARNELL, Director, Directorate-General for Enterprise & Industry, European Commission
Speech

Michitaka NAKATOMI, President, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)
Presentation - Speech

Closing Remarks
Mr. Julien GUERRIER, General Manager, EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation