The Commission and China are committed to working together to improve access for EU companies to the Chinese market, and to improve the protection of intellectual property rights in China to give extra confidence to EU investors.
Today's discussions addressed the issue of high Chinese tariffs on Europe automobile parts - an important problem for EU exporters.
The Commission also continues to work with China to ensure it meets the technical criteria for Market Economy Status.
Substantial progress towards Market Economy Status has been made, and at the EU-China Summit in September it was decided to upgrade our dialogues on this issue.
Today the Commission proposed to intensify discussions on this issue.
As one of the world's most advanced developing countries and a powerful exporter, China also has a crucial leadership role to play in the Doha Development round of trade talks.
Today the EU and China discussed the EU's recent offer on agricultural market access and their mutual interest in balanced and ambitious progress in all areas of negotiation to ensure a successful Ministerial meeting in Hong Kong.
During the Joint Committee Commissioner Mandelson and Minister Bo discussed EU enlargement and initialled a bilateral Agreement on a package of measures to compensate China on products where EU enlargement resulted in losses to Chinese exporters.
Both sides noted that this was a deal that fully reflected the WTO rules on this, and that benefited both the EU and China in a balanced way.
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