The 23rd meeting of the EU-China IP Working Group was held on 14 January at the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (MOFCOM) in Beijing. Established in 2005 at the EU-China Summit, the group was set up to support the EU-China IP Dialogue. This year’s session was followed by exchanges with industry in the form of workshops held in Beijing and Shanghai, co-chaired by DG Trade and MOFCOM, and supported by IP Key China.

The EU-China IP Working Group was created in July 2004, was endorsed at the EU-China Summit in 2005 and held its first meeting on 18 October 2005 in Beijing.

This year the 23rd EU-China IP Working Group Meeting took place on 14 January at the MOFCOM in Beijing, which was followed by exchanges with industry in the form of workshops held in Beijing and Shanghai.

The meeting was co-chaired by DG Trade and MOFCOM. IP Key China supported the preparation of the meetings in Beijing and Shanghai.

As part of the 2020 Annual Work Programme, IP Key LA joined forces with the CPVO, GEVES, SENADI and UPOV to hold three events in Quito, Ecuador.

The first event was a face-to-face workshop, ‘PVP Licensing Lab’, which aimed to increase knowledge about plant variety protection (PVP) licensing among public research institutes and small and medium-sized private breeders.