Third Round of Negotiations on the Japan EU EPA

Press release by Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 15 announced that the third round of negotiations on the Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement ("EPA") will be held in Brussels, Belgium from October 21 to 25.

At the meeting, discussions were conducted on areas such as trade in goods, trade in services, investment, intellectual property rights, non-tariff measures, government procurement and others.

Japan and EU decided to start EPA negotiation on March 2013, and had first and second round of negotiation in April and June this year respectively.
The next round of negotiations is scheduled to take place in the week of January 27, 2014.