Current Projects
Sampling of Current Projects
The Center for Global Regulatory Cooperation is actively engaged on an ambitious range of projects and activities. In order to provide a better sense of our goals, brief descriptions of a few select projects are listed on this page.
For more details on these or any of our activities please contact us at grc@uschamber.com.
EU General Data Protection Regulation
In today’s global economy, consumers, regulators, and businesses all rely on and benefit from a constant stream of data flowing seamlessly back and forth across both sides of the Atlantic. Recent studies estimate that within the next ten years products and services using the free flow of data will add over $1 trillion of annual value to consumer, business, and government end users in the U.S. and E.U. In Jan 2012, the European Union proposed a General Data Protection Regulation that attempted to streamline the current mismatched data privacy rules in place across the EU, but instead would impose costly administrative burdens and likely confuse consumers. The GRC in coordination with the Chamber’s Europe team is leading the business community efforts to craft a final regulation that leads to a clear, consistent data privacy regime, allowing for a flexible approach to privacy to promote innovation and allow for the unimpeded flow of data for legitimate purposes.
Submissions:
Regulatory Cooperation in the U.S.-EU Trade and Investment Agreement
The GRC strongly endorses ambitious and well-developed regulatory cooperation provisions as part of any highstandard transatlantic trade and investment agreement. Strengthening economic ties and enhancing transatlantic regulatory cooperation through an agreement that would include both goods and services, including financial services, are essential to eliminating unnecessary regulatory divergence that may act as a drag on economic growth and job creation. Any agreement should enhance current efforts and develop the regulatory cooperation mechanisms needed to unlock the true potential. Such provisions should comprehensively and ambitiously address traditional technical barriers to trade and sanitary/phyto-sanitary issues. In addition, the agreement should work to limit future unwanted regulatory divergence by promoting a better understanding of the impact significant regulations may have on the transatlantic market and facilitate information sharing, which will ensure regulatory decisions when appropriate, reflect the marketplace, are fact based, grounded in sound science, and undergo thorough regulatory and cost-benefit analysis.
Submissions:
- U.S. Chamber on TBT-SPS in U.S.-EU Agreement
- Reg Coop Component of U.S.-EU Agreement
- Transatlantic Reg Coop Association Letter
U.S.-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC)
The U.S. – Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC) aims to move cooperation beyond existing levels to resolve existing issues while setting a precedent for future solutions and lasting regulatory cooperation mechanisms. The GRC leads business community support for the ambitious plans of the RCC while highlighting the need for new methods of stakeholder engagement to meet this level of ambition.
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