[{"bbox": [97, 153, 209, 178], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Democracy"}, {"bbox": [97, 179, 1132, 259], "category": "Text", "text": "All activities, including policy dialogue with the Chinese Government, will aim to strengthen the inclusiveness of policy dialogues as well as to emphasize the importance of the rule of law, good governance, transparency and anti-corruption."}, {"bbox": [97, 264, 485, 290], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [97, 290, 1132, 343], "category": "Text", "text": "Monitoring the promotion of human rights, fundamental freedoms, peace and security both in China and in partner countries will be considered as appropriate."}, {"bbox": [97, 348, 335, 372], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [97, 375, 1132, 507], "category": "Text", "text": "Building resilience and preventing disaster are primarily relevant in China when it comes to natural disasters. The action will ensure that activities envisaged comply with Article 8.8 of NDICI Regulation which, inter alia, lays that \"Programmes and actions under this Regulation shall mainstream [...] where relevant, disaster risk reduction and shall address interlinkages between SDGs, to promote integrated actions that can create co-benefits and meet multiple objectives in a coherent way.\""}, {"bbox": [85, 548, 423, 576], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.4 Risks and Lessons Learnt"}, {"bbox": [82, 591, 1167, 1429], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><td>Risks</td><td>Likelihood (High/ Medium/ Low)</td><td>Impact (High/ Medium/ Low)</td><td>Mitigating measures</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Requests for ad-hoc activities in support of the EU-China IP Dialogues and Working Groups might not meet the necessary responsiveness, due to different main interests and the disruption of the implementation of the yearly activity plan.</td><td>L</td><td>M</td><td>During the negotiation of the agreement, key elements in terms of rights and obligations will have to be defined. Modalities governing requests for new activities will have to be identified, including the setting of estimated timelines for delivery and the agreement on a reprioritization and possible postponement of planned activities in consultation with DG TRADE (change management).</td></tr><tr><td>The successful and timely implementation of activities, notably policy dialogue, largely depends on the support provided by the various administrative and judicial stakeholders on the Chinese side. A risk exists that Chinese engagement may not be constant over time or decrease, leading to dialogue processes on hold without satisfactory results.</td><td>M</td><td>M</td><td>A meticulous preparation of the programme and an early outreach to the Chinese stakeholders will further limit this risk. Appropriate mechanisms should allow for the necessary flexibility to adapt activities and plans to evolving circumstances. Lessons learnt from previous IP-related actions showed a general interest of Chinese stakeholders and policy-makers to engage in this area.</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [93, 1431, 252, 1455], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Lessons Learnt:"}, {"bbox": [93, 1476, 1162, 1589], "category": "Text", "text": "The proposed action takes into account a series of previous projects that focused on the cooperation between the EU and China on intellectual property, which showed the interest of Chinese stakeholders and policy-makers to engage in discussion in this area, leading, for instance, to the inclusion of EU interests in the legislative process in China (e.g. Patent Term Extension and protection of performers rights in the latest revision of the Patent and Copyright laws), and"}, {"bbox": [1037, 1681, 1142, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 17"}]