Food Tech Meets Legal – Expert Dialogue on Old and New Trends in the F&B Industry

Dear Members and Friends of SwissCham,

SwissCham Shanghai is delighted to invite you to attend our Seminar in cooperation with SNB and Stern Ingredients. During this event, we will discuss some of the the most relevant topics in China's F&B-Industry in 2021, by looking at them from different professional angles.

We have invited industry experts to cover the following topics:

• IPR protection (patents, trade secrets) during administrative procedures (e.g. application procedure for obtaining high-tech company status: what protection mechanisms and punishments exist and are effectively enforced in practice?) + brief outlook to most important IPR-related changes (new Patent Law, Implementation Regulations and Examination Guidelines; Copyright Law).

• Protection of IPR in relation to business partners (suppliers; distributors; other service providers, e.g. protection of blueprints for office, laboratory or production facilities from construction company).

• Compliance in the Food Industry (Chopping Policy, Code of Conduct, Management Guidelines etc.): Legally binding effect of such documents in theory and in practice.

• Food product labelling and declarations (rules of origin/geographical indications, allowed marketing claims, legal consequences in case of false labelling/declarations, labelling/declarations for specific product categories such as infant foods or health foods, differences between EU and China).

• Current regulation of plant-based foods/novel foods (e.g. cultured meat).

• Other important developments in the F&B-Industry (e.g. Draft Anti Food Waste Law, Administrative Measures for Registration of Overseas Manufacturers of Imported Foods).

We are looking forward to seeing you at the event!

Best Regards,

Your SwissCham Team

Cancellation of RSVP

In case you need to cancel your attendance to the event, please write an email to: events@sha.swisscham.org or by telephone 021 5368 1245 at least 48 hours prior to the event. A "no show bill" would be charged if failure to cancel your registration timely. For third-party events, the event terms and conditions of the event organizer would be applied.

如果您要取消活动报名，请在活动开始前48小时联系events@sha.swisscham.org或致电 021 5368 1245。如未能及时取消，我们将会收取活动取消费。若非瑞士商会主办的活动，取消规则请参照活动主办发布的条款。

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