CEOE met with the Japanese employers' association Nippon Keidanren in Tokyo

Within the framework of the visit of Their Majesties the King and Queen to Japan

They analyzed bilateral investments, the need to further strengthen scientific and technological cooperation, and collaboration in third-party markets.
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El vice president of CEOE and president of the CEOE International Relations Committee, Joaquim Gay de Montellà and the Director of the Office of the President, International and Institutional Relations Of the same, Narciso Casado Martin, have held a meeting in Tokyo with the president of Nippon Keidanren Committee for Europe (Japanese employers), Yoshio Sato, within the framework of State visit of Their Majesties the King and Queen to Japan during this week.

 

They have analyzed the great potential of bilateral investments, as well as the need to continue strengthening scientific and technological cooperation between both countries and the collaboration of Japanese and Spanish companies in third markets, such as Latin America, Africa or Asia.

 

 

Gay de Montellà pointed out that, to date, seventeen rounds of negotiations have been held, which are already at a very advanced stage.

 

 

EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement

 

Gay from Montellà He pointed out that, so far, seventeen rounds of negotiations have been held, which are already at a very advanced stage. “Now the most difficult parts of the negotiation remain to be closed, which require a political push from both parties,” he said. In this regard, he recalled that last February, the EU Trade Commissioner and the Japanese Foreign Minister They issued a joint statement in which they pledged to conclude negotiations by the end of this year.

 

The vice president of CEOE highlighted that Nippon Keidanren closely follows the negotiations with the European employers' association BUSINESSEUROPE and have maintained contacts and meetings on the subject. In fact, among other initiatives, "both employers' associations have organised meetings between the main European and Japanese sectoral organisations, in order to propose to the negotiators of the European Commission and the Japanese government solutions regarding vertical and horizontal cooperation," he said. On December 13, BUSINESSEUROPE and Nippon Keidanren They sent a document with proposals on regulatory matters to the Japanese government and to the European Commission“CEOE firmly supports the conclusion of an agreement with the Asian country,” he said.

 

As a follow-up to this CEOE meeting with the Japanese counterpart organization, the visit of a representative delegation from Nippon Keidanren to Spain in the next month of July.