Themes
GREEN & CIRCULAR ECONOMY
The EU Chamber, supported by policies of the European Union, promotes the transformation towards an inclusive green and circular economy that generates growth, creates jobs and helps reduce poverty through sustainable management of natural capital. Addressing this challenge requires a broad set of interventions that go beyond government action to involve the private sector. EU citizens benefit from some of the highest environmental standards in the world.
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INVESTMENT CLIMATE (WITH SKILLS & VISAS)
A conducive investment climate is essential for a country to achieve inclusive and sustainable growth. It plays a decisive role in attracting national and foreign investments. As the most advanced, broad-based economy on the continent, South Africa offers EU investors a diverse economy with a mature financial sector and highly developed transport infrastructure.
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INDUSTRY 4.0/5G
Within the Industry 4.0 spectrum, the EU positions itself as a key “solution provider” in production technology, digitalization and resource efficiency. Both the EU Manufacture Vision 2030 and the European Factory of the Future program, (under the Horizon 2020 initiative), clearly target a leadership strategy based on complexity products and key enabling technologies (advanced materials, nanotechnologies, etc.).
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AGRICULTURE & MARKET ACCESS
The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union and the Southern African Development Community EPA Group came into effect in October 2016. It provides for the full liberalisation of tariffs on most product lines. There is greater capacity to export more agricultural products from South Africa under the tariff-rate quotas in the Agreement and through enhanced cooperation between the EU and South Africa on food safety standards, maintaining animal and plant health systems, and establishing the required quality infrastructure to support exporters.
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