Economic and development policy/planning

The purpose of this project is to introduce the Hague Choice of Court Agreements Convention and demonstrate how it may complement APEC`s Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) initiative by facilitating enforcement of business contracts and efficient resolution of any business dispute which may also contribute to APEC`s regional integration, connectivity and structural reform agenda. The project will be implemented in the form of a capacity-building workshop held in the margins of EC2 meeting in 2015. The workshop`s primary resource persons will be experts from the Asia Pacific Regional Office/Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law as well as officers from APEC economies who have experience with these Hague Conventions. The workshop will cover both operational and institutional aspects. Outcomes of the workshop will be compiled into a report, allowing key lessons learnt to be broadly shared among APEC economies and the international community.

China