European Union Committee
Scrutiny of international agreements: UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
16th Report of Session 2019-21 - published 20 November 2020 - HL Paper 175
Contents
The underlying EU agreement and UK-Japan negotiations
Future negotiations to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership
Chapter 2: Trade in goods (CEPA Chapter 2)
Chapter 3: Rules of origin and origin procedures (CEPA Chapter 3)
Chapter 4: Trade in services, investment liberalisation and electronic commerce (CEPA Chapter 8)
Movement of natural persons for business purposes (Mode 4)
Mutual recognition of professional qualifications
Chapter 5: Intellectual property (CEPA Chapter 14)
Protection for creative industries
Chapter 6: Trade and women’s economic empowerment (CEPA Chapter 21)
Chapter 7: Chapters with no or few changes
Sanitary and phytosanitary measures (CEPA Chapter 6)
Trade and sustainable development (CEPA Chapter 16)
Small and medium-sized enterprises (CEPA Chapter 20)
Chapter 8: Application of the deal (CEPA Chapter 1)
Compliance with the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland
Chapter 9: Explanatory documents and Government presentation of CEPA
The Government’s Impact Assessment
Government’s presentation of CEPA
Dispute settlement (CEPA Chapter 22)
Joint Committee and other bodies (CEPA Chapter 23)
Amendments to CEPA (CEPA Chapter 24)
Negotiations to join the CPTPP
Other lessons for working practices
Summary of conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members, declarations of interest and Sub-Committee staff
Appendix 3: Calls for evidence
Appendix 4: Ministerial correspondence
Evidence is published online at https://committees.parliament.uk/work/405/ukjapan-trade-negotiations/publications/ and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.