EU-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry

In May 2003 the EU-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EUMCCI) emerged from the former European Union Business Council (EUBC). EUMCCI is a public non-profit organisation and doesn’t get any funding from EU. The Chamber is financed by projects, events, memberships and sponsorships. It is an umbrella organisation of all EU chambers of commerce and business councils, whose members are also EUMCCI members, altogether 1088 corporations. The aim of EUMCCI is to promote, support and develop EU business interests in Malaysia as well as facilitate trade, commerce and investments between EU and Malaysia. In order to fulfill its mission, EUMCCI carries out activities that will catalyze and stimulate networking of European companies in Malaysia with the Malaysian business community, business associations, relevant ministries, official representations and other Chambers in Asia. These activities are balanced between social and business activities.

Objectives

• To develop and enhance EU position and image in Malaysia
• High profile lobbying/dialogue with Institutions, Government
• Speed up decisions and actions within the ministries and authorities
• Promote and market EU technologies, SMEs products and services in Malaysia
• Facilitate the dialogue between the European private sector and Malaysian government
• Provide consulting for EU funded project applications
• Promote the publications of the European Union (sole agent in Southeast Asia)

Organisation

EUMCCI Board

Chairman: David Jones

Honorary Treasurer: Dato’ Robert Teo

Directors:

Austria: Franz Schröder

Cyprus: Wan Azuar Dato Wan Daud

Czech Republic: Milan Vagner

Denmark: Kim Hansen

France: David Attar

Finland: Jari Niemi

Germany: Alexander Stedtfeld

Greece: Dr Stellios Plainiotis

Ireland: Ron Anderson

Italy: Alberto Ciaramicoli

Malaysia: Caesar Loong

Malta: Paul Vincent Galea

Netherlands: Marco Winter

Poland: Czeslaw Klimczak

Slovak Republic: H.E. Milan Laijciak

Spain: Luis Lopez

Sweden: Hans Bjornered

United Kingdom: Jon Addis

EUMCCI Committees

The EUMCCI Committees are platforms for EUMCCI members of specific sectors. The Committees meet regularly to discuss issues affecting their particular industries, to hold seminars with guest speakers from the government, academia and business and to lobby with the government. Each committee is responsible for writing a Trade Issues and Recommendations paper outlining the most pressing business problems and recommendations for the government to reduce these issues. Every year all Position Papers drafted by the Committees are compiled into a “EUMCCI Trade Issues & Recommendations” paper. This document is circulated among Government administrations, relevant authorities in Malaysia and the European Commission in Brussels

At the moment EUMCCI has 14 committees:

• Air Transport
• Construction & Building Materials
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Defense & Security
• Education
• Environment, Energy and Green Technology
• Financial Services
• Healthcare
• Human Resources
• Information Technology
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Logistics
• Oil & Gas
• Wine & Spirits

Publications

EUMCCI has a wide range of publications available. These include:

• e-Bulletin- a fortnightly free e-mail newsletter, containing all the latest news from the EU, Malaysia and EUMCCI. E-bulletin sign up
• EUMCCI Review- the Chamber’s quarterly Publication with a circulation of 3,000 in Malaysia, Southeast Asia and Europe. Read
• Business Directory- EUMCCI's Business Directory is a biennial publication containing the contact details of every direct and indirect member of EUMCCI.
• Trade Issues & Recommendations- Contains relevant issues and recommendations from all EUMCCI Committee industries / sectors addressing the concerns of EUMCCI member companies with regards to the business environment in Malaysia. Read

External links

• http://www.eumcci.com/