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EACC is a Connector
We open doors for our members across our chapter network on both sides of the Atlantic and we keep you informed on the relevant issues affecting your business.
Members of the EACC network enjoy:
♦ Access to our network of high-level business executives & our unique referral service
♦ Invitations to exclusive seminars & a direct exchange with transatlantic experts
♦ Visibility for your organization & opportunities to showcase your thought-leadership
♦ The ability to make a difference & actively engage in the Trans-Atlantic business dialogue
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EACC Florida Successfully Hosts Official EU Visit to Miami on Resilience |
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On March 2 and 3, EACC Florida hosted a delegation of EU officials to Miami for two full days of specialized meetings on resilience, transportation and climate-related issues.
This was the first visit to Miami in this capacity of Mercedes Garcia Perez, Head of Global Issues and Innovation at the Delegation of the European Union in Washington DC (EUDEL), and of Gzim Ocakoglu, First Counselor on Mobility and Transport also at the Delegation of the EU.
The visit included peer exchanges between the EU officials and representatives from Miami-Dade County’s Port Authorities, Office of Resilience, the City of Miami Beach, MDC’s International Trade Committee, and entities part of MDC’s Transportation System including the TPO, DTPW, FDOT and CITT. The two EU Representatives also met with Miami International Airport Authorities and airline representatives.
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Meeting with Miami-Dade County’s Port Authorities |
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Meeting with Miami Dade County's Office of Resilience and the City of Miami Beach |
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Meeting with Miami Dade County's Transportation System including the TPO, DTPW, FDOT and CITT |
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As part of their schedule, they had an exchange of views with the European Consul Generals present in Miami – including Germany, Italy and Romania – on “Maritime Transport Decarbonization" at a meeting hosted by the Consul General of France in the framework of France’s Presidency of the European Union. The event was also attended by representatives from NRC and CMA/CGM. |
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They also presented to students at the University of Miami and met with the Dean of the Miami Herbert Business School.
Last – but not least – the visiting EU officials met with EACC Members and several local companies to discuss the EU’s policies and transatlantic initiatives in the areas of transportation, climate, energy and environment, R&D, and more.
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In the visiting officials own words, this visit “reinforced the partnership between the EUDEL in Washington DC and the EACC in Florida, and most importantly the transatlantic relationship and dialogue between US and EU authorities and companies.” |
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Meeting with Miami International Airport Authorities |
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Meeting with EACC Florida Members & Friends |
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Meeting with the Dean of the University of Miami Business School |
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EACC "Why Florida?" Series Kicks Off with Business Delegation from Poland |
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EACC Florida kicked off its “Why Florida?” series on March 9th with a presentation to a delegation of Polish companies visiting Miami in the framework of the Air Cargo Americas / Supply Chain Americas trade show.
Fourteen Polish companies from across a variety of industries were represented at this event.
Speakers included Jordan Chisholm (Cozen O’Connor), Ernesto Guzman (TMF Group) and Fabrice Marmousez (RSMUS) - all Members of EACC Florida - with co-moderation by Patrick Misiewicz (Polrydian), our host for this event, and Christina Sleszynska (EACC Florida).
The presentations focused on what business leaders need to know when considering expanding operations to the United States in general and Florida in particular.
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eMerge Americas
Miami Beach - April 18-19, 2022
Special Rate for EACC Florida Members
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After a 2-year hiatus, eMerge Americas is back in Miami Beach !
The eMerge signature event, launched in 2014, is a global tech conference held annually at the Miami Beach Convention Center, attracting more than 16,000 attendees from 40 countries and over 3,900 unique participating organizations. For the last decade, eMerge has served as a catalyst for innovation and investment across the Americas, working at the forefront of building the South Florida entrepreneurial and tech ecosystem.
eMerge is offering a Special Rate to EACC Members.
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EU Leaders Respond to Russian Aggression in Ukraine: find the latest updates on the meetings, statements, and videos in one place. Read here.
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EU - Political Agreement on Digital Markets Act. The DMA was proposed in 2020 to address the negative consequences arising from certain behaviours by online platforms acting as digital “gatekeepers” to the EU single market. It is part of an ambitious regulatory package to establish a comprehensive set of new rules for all digital services, including social media, online market places, and other online platforms that operate in the European Union. Full adoption and implementation are expected in 2022. Read more.
EU - Reciprocal Access to International Procurement Improved. The EU public procurement market is one of the largest and most accessible in the world. However, restrictive practices applied by many of the EU's major trading partners discriminate against EU businesses across sectors such as construction, public transport, medical devices, power generation and pharmaceuticals. The IPI will help address this problem. Read how.
EU - Council Agrees on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). As part of the legislative process on the CBAM, EU Member States reached a general agreement on this proposal, the objective of which is to avoid carbon leakage and encourage partner countries to establish carbon pricing policies to fight climate change. The proposal is one of the key elements of the European Union’s ‘Fit for 55’ package and has yet to be approved by the European Parliament. Read more.
EU - Commission Proposes Package to Make Sustainable Products the Norm. The proposed package of proposals will make almost all physical goods on the EU market more friendly to the environment, circular, and energy efficient throughout their whole lifecycle from the design phase through to daily use, repurposing and end-of-life. Textiles and construction products will be included in the rules. Read more.
EU - Commission approves acquisition of MGM by Amazon. The European Commission has approved unconditionally, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition of MGM Holdings Inc. (‘MGM') by Amazon.com Inc (‘Amazon'). The Commission concluded that the transaction between the two US-based companies would raise no competition concerns in the European Economic Area (‘EEA'). Read more.
EU - Antitrust Investigation of Google and Meta. The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether an agreement between Google and Meta (formerly Facebook) for online display advertising services may have breached EU competition rules. Read more.
EU - Rules Aiming to Strengthen Gender Equality on Corporate Boards Moving Forward.
The proposed directive aims to set a quantitative target for the proportion of members of the under-represented sex on the boards of listed companies with a target of 40% of non-executive director positions held by members of the under-represented sex, or 33% if all board members are included. The proposal has yet to be adopted by the European Parliament. Read more.
EU - New Rules Proposed to Central Securities Depositories. As part of the EU's 2020 Capital Markets Union Action Plan, the European Commission proposed changes to the Central Securities Depositories Regulation to enhance the efficiency of the EU's settlement markets, while safeguarding financial stability. Read more.
EU/LatAm - First EIB Global Visit to Latin America to Announce New Funding for Brazil. During its visit to Brazil, the European Investment Bank reaffirmed the EU bank's commitment to maintain and increase its support for projects promoting sustainable development in Latin America in general and Brazil in particular. This initiative is part of EIB Global dedicated to international partnerships and development finance. Read more.
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U.S.-EU - Preliminary Agreement on Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework. The United States and the European Commission announce that they have agreed in principle on a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, which will foster trans-Atlantic data flows and address the concerns raised by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Schrems II decision of July 2020. Read more.
U.S. - Presidential E.O. on Digital Assets Market. President Biden's Executive Order establishes a Federal government-wide approach to the development of the digital assets industry encouraging responsible innovation in digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and central bank digital currencies. The Executive Order aims to ensure that policies on digital assets safeguard the financial system and promotes American leadership. Read more.
U.S. - Administration Announces Supply Chain Data Flow Initiative. The Freight Logistics Optimization Works (FLOW) is an information sharing initiative to pilot key freight information exchange between parts of the goods movement supply chain. FLOW includes eighteen initial participants that represent diverse perspectives across the supply chain, including private businesses, warehousing, and logistics companies, ports, and more. Read more.
U.S. - SEC Proposes Rules to Enhance and Standardize Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors. The proposed rules would require registrants to include certain climate-related disclosures in their registration statements and periodic reports, including information about climate-related risks that are reasonably likely to have a material impact on their business, results of operations, or financial condition, and certain climate-related financial statement metrics in a note to their audited financial statements. The required information about climate-related risks also would include disclosure of a registrant’s greenhouse gas emissions, which have become a commonly used metric to assess a registrant’s exposure to such risks. Read more.
U.S.- Poland Bilateral Cooperation. The US Department of Commerce will expand the U.S.-Poland bilateral commercial cooperation including in the areas of promoting clean energy, supporting inclusive economic development, and enhancing shared free market values. Commercial cooperation with the Polish Space Agency and a re-launch of the U.S.-Poland Economic and Commercial Dialogue are also planned.
IMF - How War in Ukraine is Reverberating across the World's Regions. Impacts will flow through three main channels. One, higher prices for commodities like food and energy will push up inflation further, in turn eroding the value of incomes and weighing on demand. Two, neighboring economies in particular will grapple with disrupted trade, supply chains, and remittances as well as an historic surge in refugee flows. And three, reduced business confidence and higher investor uncertainty will weigh on asset prices, tightening financial conditions and potentially spurring capital outflows from emerging markets. Read more.
Brexit - UK Exporter Numbers Decline amid Post-Brexit Reshoring. The number of UK businesses that export has declined in the year since the United Kingdom officially separated from the European Union, according to new data which find that global supply chain disruption and the impact of the pandemic are also pressuring exporters. Read more.
OECD | Progress with the implementation of international tax avoidance measures. The implementation of the BEPS package to tackle international tax avoidance continues to progress, as the OECD releases the latest peer review report assessing the actions taken by jurisdictions to prevent tax treaty shopping and other forms of treaty abuse under Action 6 of the OECD/G20 BEPS Project. Read more.
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EACC Florida
MEMBER and PARTNER INSIGHTS
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The White House Calls for a Sweeping Review of the Government’s Approach to Cryptocurrency. On March 9, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets. The order calls for the following steps to be taken within 90, 180, or 210 days to: explore a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency; mitigate the illicit finance and national security risks posed by criminal activity related to digital assets; protect U.S. consumers, investors, and businesses and U.S. and global financial stability while promoting U.S. leadership in technological innovation; ensure responsible development and use of digital assets as it relates to climate change. Read more.
Compliments Cozen O'Connor
UK Sanctions and Economic Crime Update – A More Forceful Approach. Introduced in direct response to the increasingly urgent position with Russia and to combat the criticism levelled at the UK for being “behind” the United States and EU on sanctions, the Economic Crime Act simplifies the standard sanctions procedure by removing a layer of hurdles a minister must overcome before making sanctions which, inter alia, are in the interests of international peace and security, promote the resolution of armed conflicts, or promote compliance with international human rights and humanitarian law. The Act also introduces a new “urgent” sanctions procedure which, broadly speaking, allows the UK to fast-track the imposition of sanctions upon individuals and entities already sanctioned by other territories, including the United States and the European Union, or, if it is in the public interest to impose sanctions under the urgent procedure. Read more.
Compliments Greenberg Traurig
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The EACC Network
Our Members are Part of Something Bigger
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Together with its sister chapters, EACC Florida is part of a growing and highly dynamic transatlantic network reaching over 10,000 executives in the US and across Europe. With over 750 members, the EACC is a valuable resource for any size business. If you would like to get involved, let us know.
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