AmCham EU welcomes attempts to ensure that adoption of the OECD’s recommendations is consistent across the EU and with international trading partners where they are required in order to address identified issues by the OECD such as cross border hybridity, excessive interest deductibility and abusive transactions. Consistency is vital to minimise the negative impact on cross border trade and investment and to avoiding potential double taxation. However, we are concerned that the proposed measures are not appropriately drawn to tackle the identified issues without negative impact on the single market.

The American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) welcomes the European Commission’s initiatives to improve the quality and coherence of European online contract law in the framework of the Better Regulation Agenda. However, the Commission’s proposed directive lacks harmonisation with contract law in the EU, which will result in companies still relying on different rules for different distribution channels. 

In its document presented at the rountable on labour migration, within the National Convention on the European Union series of public discussions, the Government says the Czech Republic is a net receiver of labor migrants, the only country among the new EU member states

The Center for Transatlantic relations Johns Hopkins University and Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in cooperation with AmCham EU and Trans-Atlantic Business Council published their Transatlantic Economy 2016 Report, giving an insight into EU-US economic ties, digital economy, jobs, trade and investment, as well as the US state-by-state and the EU country-by-country commercial activities comparison.