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Daniel Albrecht
China
Maria Boicova-Wynants
Belgium
Carin Burchell
United Kingdom
Eryck Castillo
Mexico
Isabel Cortes
Spain
Daniel de Prado Escudero
China
Luis-Alfonso Durán
Spain
Sebastian Gonzalez Yanes
Venezuela
Cristina Guerra
Brazil
Ahu Güneyli
Turkey
Charles-Antoine Joly
France
Jani Kaulo
Finland
Gaele Le Borgne
France
Simon Miles
United Kingdom
F. Peter Müller
Germany
Santiago R. O'Conor
Argentina
Riikka Palmos
Finland
Renate Pouw
Netherlands
Olga Preda
Belgium
Erikas Saukalas
Lithuania
Marius Schneider
Belgium
Sozos-Christos Theodoulou
Cyprus
Pawat Varapirom
Thailand
International Trade Committee
Chair
Julien Scicluna
France
Vice-Chair
Bartosz Fert
Poland
Secretary
Hande Hancar
Turkey
DESCRIPTION
The International Trade Committee was founded in 2020, as a result of regular meetings with DG TRADE. Indeed, it had become apparent from such meetings through the years that there was a common need for the EU Commission and ECTA to be able to hold fruitful exchanges on intellectual property matters with regard to the external trade relations of the European Union. Further, ECTA had previously created two Task Forces (TF), namely the Brexit TF and the China TF, which had focused on these two specific issues but, as the time passed, it was rather logical that a larger Committee should be created, encompassing these, as well as other trade issues.

MISSION STATEMENT
The main task of the International Trade Committee (ITC) is to closely follow the trade negotiations between the European Union and third countries, from the scope of intellectual property, and render ECTA’s views. In order to reach the desired result, the ITC examines internally the positions taken by the EU Commission, observes the respective reactions of the relevant third countries, formulates comments for submission and participates in the meetings between ECTA and DG TRADE, when so requested by the Management.