20th EU-Japan Summit — Joint Press Statement

Brus­sels, 28 May 2011
Mr Her­man Van Rompuy, Pres­i­dent of the Euro­pean Coun­cil, Mr Jose Manuel Bar­roso, Pres­i­dent of the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion, and Mr Nao­to Kan, Prime Min­is­ter of Japan, met today in Brus­sels to reaf­firm the close part­ner­ship between the Euro­pean Union and Japan as like-mind­ed glob­al part­ners and major economies, com­mem­o­rat­ing the 20th anniver­sary of Sum­mits between the two sides. Unit­ed by a shared com­mit­ment to fun­da­men­tal val­ues and prin­ci­ples, includ­ing democ­ra­cy, the rule of law and human rights, as well as to the mar­ket-based econ­o­my and sus­tain­able devel­op­ment, and faced with com­mon glob­al chal­lenges, Sum­mit lead­ers are resolved to deep­en bilat­er­al rela­tions from a com­pre­hen­sive and long-term per­spec­tive.

Year of Sol­i­dar­i­ty and “Kizu­na” (the bonds of friendship)

Sum­mit lead­ers dis­cussed the after­math of the dev­as­tat­ing earth­quake and tsuna­mi which struck East Japan on 11 March. Their shared con­vic­tion is that Japan’s stead­fast efforts will enable it to over­come the chal­lenges, and emerge even stronger than before.

Japan expressed its sin­cere appre­ci­a­tion for the heart­felt sup­port from the EU, which rep­re­sents a tan­gi­ble illus­tra­tion of “kizu­na” between the EU and Japan.

Build­ing on their coop­er­a­tion dur­ing the ini­tial post-dis­as­ter relief effort, the EU and Japan decid­ed to con­tin­ue close dia­logue and seek pos­si­bil­i­ties for col­lab­o­ra­tion dur­ing the recov­ery and recon­struc­tion phase. Sum­mit lead­ers also shared the inten­tion to enhance coop­er­a­tion on dis­as­ter man­age­ment and human­i­tar­i­an assis­tance. In light of the seri­ous con­se­quences caused by the earth­quake and ensu­ing tsuna­mi at the Fukushi­ma-Dai­ichi nuclear pow­er plant, they under­lined the cru­cial impor­tance of suc­cess­ful­ly sta­bil­is­ing the plant, and deal­ing with the radi­o­log­i­cal impact and with the health and envi­ron­men­tal con­se­quences of this acci­dent in a con­tin­ued spir­it of transparency. 

The lessons learned from Fukushi­ma must be care­ful­ly stud­ied by gov­ern­ments and the nuclear indus­try to ensure that events of this kind nev­er occur again. Sum­mit lead­ers are resolved to work bilat­er­al­ly and with their inter­na­tion­al part­ners to pro­mote the high­est lev­els of nuclear safe­ty around the world, in par­tic­u­lar through the Inter­na­tion­al Atom­ic Ener­gy Agency (IAEA) and the G8/G20. The EU and Japan will exchange infor­ma­tion and views on the safe­ty mea­sures tak­en at nuclear pow­er sta­tions on both sides and fur­ther devel­op coop­er­a­tion on strength­en­ing inter­na­tion­al nuclear safe­ty stan­dards. Both sides have set in train action to ensure that safe­ty at all their nuclear plants is rig­or­ous­ly assessed — and, if need­ed, rein­forced as a mat­ter of urgency. Sum­mit lead­ers encour­aged all their inter­na­tion­al part­ners to take sim­i­lar mea­sures. The EU and Japan shared the view that it is impor­tant for pub­lic pol­i­cy respons­es to be based on sol­id sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence, includ­ing in rela­tion to goods and travel.

The Annex to this State­ment sets out con­crete “EU-Japan Coop­er­a­tion Fol­low­ing the Great East Japan Earth­quake and the Acci­dent at the Fukushi­ma-Dai­ichi Nuclear Pow­er Plant” approved by the Sum­mit leaders.

Next Steps for Stronger EU-Japan Relations

The last EU-Japan Sum­mit held in Tokyo on 28 April 2010 entrust­ed a joint High-Lev­el Group with the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of options for the com­pre­hen­sive strength­en­ing of all aspects of the EU-Japan rela­tion­ship and defin­ing the frame­work for imple­ment­ing it. In light of this work, Sum­mit lead­ers agreed to start the process for par­al­lel nego­ti­a­tions for:
− a deep and com­pre­hen­sive Free Trade Agree­ment (FTA)/Economic Part­ner­ship Agree­ment (EPA), address­ing all issues of shared inter­est to both sides includ­ing tar­iffs, non-tar­iff mea­sures, ser­vices, invest­ment, Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Rights, com­pe­ti­tion and pub­lic pro­cure­ment; and
− a bind­ing agree­ment, cov­er­ing polit­i­cal, glob­al and oth­er sec­toral coop­er­a­tion in a com­pre­hen­sive man­ner, and under­pinned by their shared com­mit­ment to fun­da­men­tal val­ues and principles.

Sum­mit lead­ers decid­ed, to this end, that the two sides would start dis­cus­sions with a view to defin­ing the scope and lev­el of ambi­tion of both nego­ti­a­tions. Such scop­ing would be car­ried out as soon as possible.

In par­al­lel with this, the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion will seek the nec­es­sary autho­riza­tion for the nego­ti­a­tion of these agree­ments on the basis of a suc­cess­ful scoping.

Sum­mit lead­ers have reviewed planned and ongo­ing bilat­er­al coop­er­a­tion ini­tia­tives. Among many, for estab­lish­ing a just, com­pre­hen­sive and last­ing peace in the Mid­dle East, the EU and Japan will enhance joint efforts to sup­port the eco­nom­ic and social devel­op­ment of the Pales­tin­ian peo­ple. In this regard, the EU wel­comes Japan’s con­tri­bu­tion to the EU’s PEGASE mech­a­nism. In Afghanistan, the EU and Japan con­tin­ue to pur­sue coop­er­a­tion on secu­ri­ty, rein­te­gra­tion, and devel­op­ment assis­tance includ­ing the estab­lish­ment of a police train­ing cen­tre in light of the trans­fer of secu­ri­ty respon­si­bil­i­ty from inter­na­tion­al to the Afghan Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Forces. The EU and Japan will also co-host a con­fer­ence on Tajik­istan-Afghanistan bor­der man­age­ment in the sec­ond half of 2011 in Dushanbe. For the safe­ty of mar­itime nav­i­ga­tion off the coast of Soma­lia and in the Gulf of Aden, the EU and Japan will con­tin­ue to coop­er­ate close­ly on counter-pira­cy in the region. Tak­ing advan­tage of the Agree­ment between the Euro­pean Com­mu­ni­ty and the Gov­ern­ment of Japan on Coop­er­a­tion in Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy, which recent­ly entered into force, the EU and Japan will deep­en and broad­en the scope of their coop­er­a­tion and launch new col­lab­o­ra­tive activities. 

They will also explore the pos­si­bil­i­ty of estab­lish­ing a coop­er­a­tion frame­work on satel­lite nav­i­ga­tion at gov­ern­men­tal lev­el. Sum­mit lead­ers wel­comed plans to deep­en coop­er­a­tion on the draft Code of Con­duct of Out­er Space activ­i­ties with a view to pro­mot­ing trans­paren­cy and con­fi­dence-build­ing mea­sures in out­er-space activities.

Sum­mit lead­ers wel­comed the recent devel­op­ment of Cus­toms coop­er­a­tion includ­ing the imple­men­ta­tion of the mutu­al recog­ni­tion of Autho­rised Eco­nom­ic Oper­a­tor (AEO) pro­grammes, which will facil­i­tate trade between the EU and Japan.

Sum­mit lead­ers reaf­firmed their deter­mi­na­tion to con­tin­ue to coop­er­ate with the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ties on both sides, in par­tic­u­lar through the EU-Japan Busi­ness Round Table. Con­scious of their glob­al respon­si­bil­i­ty and of the depth and impor­tance of their bilat­er­al coop­er­a­tion, Sum­mit lead­ers decid­ed today to estab­lish a new frame­work for twice-year­ly meet­ings of senior offi­cials to over­see progress in their bilat­er­al rela­tions. World Econ­o­my and Trade

Sum­mit lead­ers under­lined their deter­mi­na­tion to enhance coop­er­a­tion and pol­i­cy coor­di­na­tion bilat­er­al­ly and with their G7/G8 and G20 part­ners to pro­mote the recov­ery of the world econ­o­my, by secur­ing strong, sus­tain­able and bal­anced growth, fos­ter­ing job cre­ation, avoid­ing exces­sive macro­eco­nom­ic imbal­ances and ensur­ing finan­cial sta­bil­i­ty and fis­cal sus­tain­abil­i­ty. To this end, they will strive for effec­tive and time­ly imple­men­ta­tion, by all mem­bers, of the com­mit­ments made in the G20 frame­work and active­ly coop­er­ate with a view to prepar­ing the next G20 Sum­mit in Cannes. They will remain vig­i­lant to avoid dis­or­der­ly move­ments and per­sis­tent exchange rate misalignments.

Recall­ing the impor­tance of facil­i­tat­ing glob­al trade and invest­ment, Sum­mit lead­ers not­ed with great con­cern the unsat­is­fac­to­ry progress in the Doha Devel­op­ment Agen­da nego­ti­a­tions. They shared the view that all nego­ti­at­ing options must be exam­ined at the WTO in a spir­it of give and take in order to achieve an ambi­tious, bal­anced and com­pre­hen­sive final agree­ment. Sum­mit lead­ers also reaf­firmed their deter­mi­na­tion to com­bat all forms of pro­tec­tion­ism. They also com­mit­ted to a rapid, ambi­tious and bal­anced con­clu­sion of nego­ti­a­tions on the revi­sion of the Gov­ern­ment Pro­cure­ment Agreement.

Recog­nis­ing its impor­tance in the indus­tri­al sup­ply chain, Sum­mit lead­ers are com­mit­ted to ensur­ing that the glob­al sup­ply of raw mate­ri­als, includ­ing rare earth, is secure and sus­tain­able in order to realise sta­ble eco­nom­ic growth.

Glob­al Challenges

Cli­mate change remains an urgent glob­al issue. Sum­mit lead­ers shared the view that the EU and Japan would coop­er­ate with a view to exert­ing lead­er­ship togeth­er in the field of cli­mate change, pro­mot­ing the devel­op­ment of low-car­bon glob­al economies that are safe and sus­tain­able, con­sis­tent with the inter­na­tion­al objec­tive of lim­it­ing the increase in glob­al aver­age tem­per­a­ture below 2°C. To this end, they will strive in par­tic­u­lar for steady imple­men­ta­tion of the Can­cun Agree­ments and the adop­tion of a robust, glob­al, fair, effec­tive, com­pre­hen­sive and legal­ly-bind­ing agree­ment with par­tic­i­pa­tion by all major economies. The Dur­ban Unit­ed Nations Frame­work Con­ven­tion on Cli­mate Change (UNFCCC) Con­fer­ence should con­sti­tute a step­ping stone in this direction. 

Sum­mit lead­ers reaf­firmed the impor­tance of green­ing the econ­o­my for achiev­ing sus­tain­able devel­op­ment. They also shared the view that the Unit­ed Nations Con­fer­ence on Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 offers an oppor­tu­ni­ty to raise the pro­file of the Green Econ­o­my, includ­ing Resource Effi­cien­cy, at the high­est pos­si­ble lev­el and to pro­mote it as a new mod­el for sus­tain­able glob­al eco­nom­ic growth. They also reached a com­mon recog­ni­tion on the impor­tance of imple­ment­ing the out­comes of the 10th Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties (COP10) of the Con­ven­tion on Bio­log­i­cal Diver­si­ty (CBD) in Octo­ber 2010.

Sum­mit lead­ers will con­tin­ue and rein­vig­o­rate their bilat­er­al ener­gy coop­er­a­tion on secure, safe and sus­tain­able ener­gy poli­cies, and ener­gy-relat­ed research and tech­nol­o­gy devel­op­ment, with a view to con­tribut­ing to ensur­ing ener­gy secu­ri­ty and devel­op­ing a low car­bon econ­o­my. They will also con­tin­ue to advance these goals through coop­er­a­tion in the appro­pri­ate inter­na­tion­al organ­i­sa­tions and initiatives.

Sum­mit lead­ers con­firmed their deter­mi­na­tion to joint­ly con­tribute to the suc­cess­ful achieve­ment of the Mil­len­ni­um Devel­op­ment Goals (MDGs) by 2015, where the aspect of human secu­ri­ty is essen­tial, with a spe­cial empha­sis on coun­tries where progress towards the MDGs is most off-track, includ­ing those in sit­u­a­tions of fragility.

Sum­mit lead­ers also con­firmed their strong com­mit­ment to the pre­ven­tion of and fight against ter­ror­ism and pro­mo­tion of imple­men­ta­tion of the UN Glob­al Counter-Ter­ror­ism Strat­e­gy. Sum­mit lead­ers under­lined the impor­tance of ful­ly imple­ment­ing the reforms of the UN sys­tem adopt­ed at the 2005 UN Sum­mit, includ­ing reform of the main UN bod­ies, as referred to in the out­comes doc­u­ment, in order to strength­en the UN’s capac­i­ty to effec­tive­ly address chal­lenges. Sum­mit lead­ers expressed their deter­mi­na­tion to strength­en the glob­al non-pro­lif­er­a­tion archi­tec­ture by sup­port­ing all mul­ti­lat­er­al treaties and arrange­ments that help to pre­vent and com­bat pro­lif­er­a­tion, and by pro­mot­ing their imple­men­ta­tion and uni­ver­sal­i­sa­tion. Sum­mit lead­ers reit­er­at­ed their com­mit­ment to seek a safer world for all and to cre­ate the con­di­tions for a world with­out nuclear weapons, in accor­dance with the goals of the Treaty on the Non-Pro­lif­er­a­tion of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). They expressed their sup­port for the imple­men­ta­tion of the com­mit­ments made by all NPT States Par­ties at the 2010 NPT Review Conference.

Region­al Issues

Acknowl­edg­ing the his­toric impor­tance of the changes under­way in the Mid­dle East and North Africa, Sum­mit lead­ers affirmed their sup­port for the cit­i­zens’ legit­i­mate aspi­ra­tions for demo­c­ra­t­ic tran­si­tion, eco­nom­ic mod­erni­sa­tion and the respect for human rights. They con­demned the vio­lence against civil­ians and expressed con­tin­u­ous deep con­cern for the sit­u­a­tions in the region. In par­tic­u­lar, on Syr­ia, they not­ed that both the EU and Japan have imposed restric­tive mea­sures with the objec­tive of per­suad­ing the Syr­i­an regime to change course, start gen­uine reforms and aban­don repres­sion and vio­lence. On Libya, Sum­mit lead­ers reaf­firmed the need for the inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty to inten­si­fy the efforts towards an inclu­sive polit­i­cal solu­tion. They also not­ed the impor­tance of pro­duc­tive dia­logues between the EU and Japan for effec­tive sup­port towards the coun­tries cov­ered by the EU’s East­ern Part­ner­ship policy. 

Sum­mit lead­ers exchanged views about the region­al secu­ri­ty envi­ron­ment of East Asia. They recalled the cur­rent secu­ri­ty con­cerns and under­lined the use­ful­ness of the exist­ing strate­gic dia­logue between the EU and Japan. They also decid­ed to con­tin­ue their coop­er­a­tion in those fields. Sum­mit lead­ers con­demned the seri­ous vio­la­tion of the rel­e­vant UN Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil (UNSC) res­o­lu­tions and the 2005 Joint State­ment of the Six-Par­ty Talks in rela­tion to North Korea’s ura­ni­um enrich­ment activ­i­ties. They urged North Korea to take con­crete actions towards ful­fill­ing its com­mit­ments and com­ply­ing with its oblig­a­tions, includ­ing denu­cleariza­tion. In addi­tion, they stressed the impor­tance of address­ing North Korea’s human rights issues, includ­ing the abduc­tion issue. Sum­mit lead­ers expressed utmost con­cern at Iran’s per­sis­tent fail­ure to com­ply with its inter­na­tion­al oblig­a­tions and require­ments under all rel­e­vant UNSC and IAEA Board of Gov­er­nors’ Res­o­lu­tions. They called on Iran to ful­ly com­ply with its inter­na­tion­al oblig­a­tions and require­ments and to engage in a con­struc­tive dialogue.

Peo­ple-to-Peo­ple Exchanges

Deter­mined to build clos­er ties between the cit­i­zens of the EU and Japan, the two sides will con­tin­ue to pro­mote joint study and mobil­i­ty pro­grammes between high­er edu­ca­tion insti­tu­tions, and have decid­ed to launch exchanges between their diplomats.

Sum­mit lead­ers con­grat­u­lat­ed the win­ner of the sec­ond EU-Japan Eng­lish Haiku Con­test held under the theme of “kizu­na”.

EU-JAPAN COOPERATION FOLLOWING THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE AND THE ACCIDENT AT THE FUKUSHIMA-DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Build­ing upon exist­ing coop­er­a­tion, Sum­mit lead­ers affirmed the intent of the Euro­pean Union and Japan to devel­op and expand their coop­er­a­tive activ­i­ties on nuclear safe­ty, the sup­ply of safe and sus­tain­able ener­gy and its effi­cient use, and nat­ur­al dis­as­ter pre­ven­tion. Ini­tial areas for joint activ­i­ties could include the following:

A. WORK TOGETHER TO ENSURE THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF NUCLEAR SAFETY WORLDWIDE

1. Japan intends to con­tin­ue work­ing with the EU and oth­er inter­na­tion­al part­ners in assess­ing and shar­ing lessons learned from the acci­dent at the Fukushi­ma-Dai­ichi nuclear pow­er plant

This will include:
— Iden­ti­fy­ing the caus­es of the acci­dent and eval­u­at­ing the dam­age at the site;
— Draw­ing and shar­ing all the lessons gained from the acci­dent; and
— Ensur­ing sci­ence-based pol­i­cy respons­es fol­low­ing such events, includ­ing mea­sures on goods and travel. 

2. The EU and Japan will coop­er­ate in mon­i­tor­ing the impact of the acci­dent The Japan­ese gov­ern­ment is pur­su­ing the cru­cial work of radi­a­tion mon­i­tor­ing in the areas con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed as a result of releas­es of radioac­tive mate­ri­als. The EU, and indi­vid­ual EU Mem­ber States, have exper­tise and spe­cif­ic capac­i­ties which can be made avail­able to assist Japan if needed.

This could include:
— Mon­i­tor­ing radi­a­tion, in par­tic­u­lar the radi­a­tion of goods orig­i­nat­ing from the con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed areas;
— Assess­ing the impact on human health; and
— Eval­u­at­ing oth­er radi­o­log­i­cal impacts, includ­ing the impact for the man­age­ment of mar­itime resources, waste water treat­ment and man­age­ment, food safe­ty, and transport. 

The EU and Japan are com­mit­ted to close coop­er­a­tion with inter­na­tion­al expert bod­ies involved in assess­ing the con­se­quences of the acci­dent such as the Inter­na­tion­al Atom­ic Ener­gy Agency (IAEA), the Nuclear Ener­gy Agency of the Organ­i­sa­tion for Eco­nom­ic Coop­er­a­tion and Devel­op­ment (OECD/NEA), the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO), and the UN Sci­en­tif­ic Com­mit­tee on the Effects of Atom­ic Radi­a­tion (UNSCEAR). 3. The EU and Japan will coop­er­ate in efforts to pro­mote inter­na­tion­al stan­dards and appro­pri­ate mea­sures on nuclear safe­ty and emer­gency preparedness/response
This will include:
— Work­ing close­ly togeth­er and with oth­er inter­na­tion­al part­ners, includ­ing the IAEA and key nation­al reg­u­la­to­ry author­i­ties;
— Imple­ment­ing com­pre­hen­sive risk and safe­ty assess­ments for exist­ing nuclear facil­i­ties, and encour­ag­ing oth­er coun­tries to do so;
— Shar­ing expe­ri­ence on results and cor­rec­tive mea­sures; and
— Pos­si­ble pro­vi­sion of assis­tance in rela­tion to such assess­ments in oth­er coun­tries where it is needed. 

4. The EU and Japan will strength­en their research and devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion on nuclear safety 

This will include:
— Build­ing on the exist­ing excel­lent coop­er­a­tion between Euratom and Japan;
— Seek­ing syn­er­gies between respec­tive pro­grammes deal­ing with nuclear safe­ty, severe acci­dents, radi­a­tion pro­tec­tion, radioe­col­o­gy, emer­gency man­age­ment, radi­o­log­i­cal and nuclear risks , and envi­ron­men­tal impact mon­i­tor­ing;
— Pro­mot­ing researcher mobility.

The EU and Japan are also coop­er­at­ing with­in the Gen­er­a­tion IV Inter­na­tion­al Forum (GIF). 5. The EU and Japan will con­sid­er pos­si­bil­i­ties for coop­er­a­tion in decon­t­a­m­i­na­tion and decom­mis­sion­ing, and more gen­er­al­ly in post acci­dent management

6. The EU and Japan will strength­en coop­er­a­tion on mit­i­ga­tion of radi­o­log­i­cal, nuclear and oth­er risks in oth­er countries 

This will include:
— Enhanc­ing insti­tu­tion­al capac­i­ty to man­age Chem­i­cal, Bio­log­i­cal, Radi­o­log­i­cal and Nuclear (CBRN) risks in oth­er coun­tries, in par­tic­u­lar risks of acci­den­tal ori­gin in the nuclear and radi­o­log­i­cal fields; and — Exchang­ing infor­ma­tion on the imple­men­ta­tion of respec­tive pro­grammes, in par­tic­u­lar the EU region­al CBRN Cen­tres of Excel­lence ini­tia­tive and Japan’s Inte­grat­ed Sup­port Cen­tre for Nuclear Non-Pro­lif­er­a­tion and Nuclear Security. 

B. REINVIGORATE ENERGY COOPERATION

1. The EU and Japan will strength­en their dia­logue on ener­gy pol­i­cy This could include:
— Exchang­ing expe­ri­ence and best prac­tices on pol­i­cy-set­ting for secure, safe, and sus­tain­able ener­gy;
— Deep­en­ing infor­ma­tion exchange on respec­tive approach­es and posi­tions to pro­mote ener­gy secu­ri­ty, renew­able ener­gy and ener­gy effi­cien­cy in the frame­work of the rel­e­vant inter­na­tion­al organ­i­sa­tions and ini­tia­tives; and
— Explor­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties for exchang­ing views on long-term plan­ning and the ener­gy mix. 

2. The EU and Japan will pro­mote research coop­er­a­tion, mak­ing full use of bilat­er­al and mul­ti­lat­er­al agree­ments (includ­ing the Agree­ment between the Euro­pean Com­mu­ni­ty and the Gov­ern­ment of Japan on Coop­er­a­tion in Sci­ence and Technology)

This could include:
— Sup­port­ing the imple­men­ta­tion of joint research projects and activ­i­ties in pho­to­volta­ic, pow­er stor­age, car­bon cap­ture and stor­age, and sup­port­ing coop­er­a­tion in smart grids and hydro­gen fuel cells;
— Fos­ter­ing exchanges of researchers, expe­ri­ence, infor­ma­tion, and knowl­edge;
— Accel­er­at­ing the deploy­ment of sus­tain­able low-car­bon tech­nolo­gies; and
— Coop­er­at­ing fur­ther in the frame­work of the ITER Agree­ment and the Japan-Euratom Broad­er Approach Agreement .

3. The EU and Japan will seek pos­si­bil­i­ties for coop­er­a­tion on defin­ing inter­na­tion­al stan­dards in emerg­ing tech­no­log­i­cal fields

This could include next gen­er­a­tion vehi­cles, smart grids, and means of enhanc­ing ener­gy effi­cien­cy in build­ings, includ­ing through ICT applications.

4. The EU and Japan will lead inter­na­tion­al efforts in green­ing the econ­o­my, encour­ag­ing resource effi­cien­cy in all eco­nom­ic areas, and com­bat­ing cli­mate change Mind­ful of the mul­ti­ple ben­e­fits flow­ing from inte­grat­ed ener­gy and cli­mate action, this will include coop­er­at­ing close­ly domes­ti­cal­ly and inter­na­tion­al­ly, includ­ing in fora such as the UN, G8 and G20, the Clean Ener­gy Min­is­te­r­i­al (CEM), the OECD, the Major Economies Forum on Ener­gy and Cli­mate (MEF), the Inter­na­tion­al Ener­gy Agency (IEA), the Inter­na­tion­al Part­ner­ship for Ener­gy Effi­cien­cy Coop­er­a­tion (IPEEC), and the Inter­na­tion­al Renew­able Ener­gy Agency (IRENA).

C. IMPROVE COORDINATION AND ENHANCE COOPERATION IN HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE, EMERGENCY RELIEF OPERATIONS AS WELL AS DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND PREVENTION

1. The EU and Japan will coop­er­ate on human­i­tar­i­an assis­tance pol­i­cy and emer­gency relief operations

This will include iden­ti­fy­ing areas where both sides can work togeth­er and add val­ue in this area, using the exist­ing pol­i­cy dia­logue and con­sul­ta­tion mechanisms.

2. The EU and Japan will exchange views on nat­ur­al dis­as­ter pre­pared­ness and pre­ven­tion 3. The EU and Japan will explore pos­si­bil­i­ties to deep­en coop­er­a­tion in oth­er rel­e­vant areas This could include research coop­er­a­tion on cat­a­stroph­ic nat­ur­al haz­ards, mon­i­tor­ing geo­log­i­cal­ly active regions, tsuna­mi and seis­mic risks, and ear­ly warning.

4. The EU and Japan will share expe­ri­ence on struc­tur­al design codes for build­ings with a view to improv­ing stan­dard setting. 

Source:
Coun­cil of the Euro­pean Union 

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Seit 2001 ist GlobalDefence.net im Internet unterwegs, um mit eigenen Analysen, interessanten Kooperationen und umfassenden Informationen für einen spannenden Überblick der Weltlage zu sorgen. GlobalDefence.net war dabei die erste deutschsprachige Internetseite, die mit dem Schwerpunkt Sicherheitspolitik außerhalb von Hochschulen oder Instituten aufgetreten ist.

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