Mutual recognition and harmonisation have been instrumental for regional market integration, including the Single Market. As common regulations in different economic areas deepen and become increasingly more complex, regulatory divergences between the East and West also create barriers to trade. Standards and requirements can also used as a tool for industrial policy and protectionism.

Regulatory co-operation is expected to be an integral feature of all future trade agreements: the EU bilaterals, integration of the Asia-Pacific region (including TPP), future plurilateral approaches to services, or Trans-Atlantic co-operation.

The European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) welcomes you for a presentation of the Australian Journal of International Affairs (AJIA) issue on regulatory divergences, and a panel discussion on how to address regulatory barriers on services.

Speakers are

• Associate Professor Donald Kenyon, Australia’s former Ambassador to the GATT/WTO, the EU, senior negotiator with experience of negotiating with the EU, the US and Japan, and also the joint editor of the AJIA issue.
• Professor Patrick Messerlin, Professor of Economics at the Sciences Po and Director of Groupe d’Économie Mondiale
• Professor Jim Rollo, University of Sussex
• Pascal Kerneis, Managing Director of European Services Forum
• Chair: Roderick Abbott, Senior Advisor of  ECIPE and former Deputy Director General at the European Commission and the World Trade Organization
• Panel discussion including European and Australian officials and industry representatives on the future of regulatory co-operation

For more information, please, visit the ECIPE website.

ECIPE is an independent and non-profit policy research think tank dedicated to trade policy and other international economic policy issues of importance to Europe.The event is supported by the ANU Centre for European Studies.