Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09 Dec 2025 | Jorge Vitorino Head of Unit | Exchange of views on main developments in EU trade in services policy | — |
| 09 Dec 2025 | Jorge Vitorino Head of Unit | Exchange of views on main developments in EU trade in services policy | SRC |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Sofia Munoz Albarran Director | Interplay between the trade anti-dumping and anti-subsidies regulations and the EU Regulation on Foreign Subsidies (FSR) to ensure that the two regimes combined deliver their maximal effect, complementing each other, while remaining accessible. | — |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Jorge Vitorino Head of Unit | Exchange of views on EU trade in services policy and on ESF’s 25th Anniversary event | — |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Fabrice D'Aprile Head of Unit | Interplay between the trade anti-dumping and anti-subsidies regulations and the EU Regulation on Foreign Subsidies (FSR) to ensure that the two regimes combined deliver their maximal effect, complementing each other, while remaining accessible. | SRC |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Fabrice D'Aprile Head of Unit | Interplay between the trade anti-dumping and anti-subsidies regulations and the EU Regulation on Foreign Subsidies (FSR) to ensure that the two regimes combined deliver their maximal effect, complementing each other, while remaining accessible. | — |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Sofia Munoz Albarran Director | Interplay between the trade anti-dumping and anti-subsidies regulations and the EU Regulation on Foreign Subsidies (FSR) to ensure that the two regimes combined deliver their maximal effect, complementing each other, while remaining accessible. | SRC |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Jorge Vitorino Head of Unit | Exchange of views on EU trade in services policy and on ESF’s 25th Anniversary event | SRC |
| 20 May 2025 | Agata Gerba Head of Unit | Informal Meeting between the European Services Forum (ESF) and the Council of the European Union’s Trade Policy Committee on Services and Investment (TPC-SI) | SRC |
| 20 May 2025 | Agata Gerba Head of Unit | Informal Meeting between the European Services Forum (ESF) and the Council of the European Union’s Trade Policy Committee on Services and Investment (TPC-SI) | — |
| 01 Apr 2025 | Bernd Biervert Cabinet member | Importance of trade in services for the EU. Introduce the work of ESF. | SRC |
| 01 Apr 2025 | Chiara Galiffa Cabinet member | Importance of trade in services for the EU. Introduce the work of ESF. | SRC |
| 01 Apr 2025 | Chiara Galiffa Cabinet member | Importance of trade in services for the EU. Introduce the work of ESF. | — |
| 18 Mar 2025 | Piotr Rydzkowski Head of Unit | CSD Contact Group meeting-Overview of Trade priorities and rolling calendar | SRC |
| 18 Mar 2025 | Piotr Rydzkowski Head of Unit | CSD Contact Group meeting-Overview of Trade priorities and rolling calendar | — |
| 01 Mar 2023 | Cristina Rueda Catry Cabinet member | Bilateral trade agenda, WTO e-commerce | — |
| 01 Mar 2023 | Cristina Rueda Catry Cabinet member | Bilateral trade agenda, WTO e-commerce | SRC |
| 03 Feb 2023 | Tomas Baert Cabinet member | State of play on key EU trade policy priorities; trade policy pillar of the Green Deal Industrial Plan | SRC |
| 03 Feb 2023 | Tomas Baert Cabinet member | State of play on key EU trade policy priorities; trade policy pillar of the Green Deal Industrial Plan | — |
| 09 Feb 2018 | Maria Asenius Cabinet member | Importance of services in the economie and trade agreements | SRC |
| 09 Feb 2018 | Maria Asenius Cabinet member | Importance of services in the economie and trade agreements | — |
| 07 Dec 2017 | Xavier Coget Cabinet member | Exchange on EU trade policy in the field of services | — |
| 07 Dec 2017 | Kaius Kristian Hedberg Cabinet member | Data Flows in Trade Agreements | SRC |
| 07 Dec 2017 | Xavier Coget Cabinet member | Exchange on EU trade policy in the field of services | SRC |
| 07 Dec 2017 | Kaius Kristian Hedberg Cabinet member | Data Flows in Trade Agreements | — |
Mission & Goals
Members of the European Services Forum have adopted the following Set of principles: 1. In the coming decades, issues related to international trade in services will present challenges to the multilateral trading system that at least equal, in importance and difficulty, tariff and non-tariff barriers to the development of trade in goods. 2. While bilateral and regional agreements and initiatives can play a useful supportive role, a firm and widely supported multilateral agreement remains the ultimate goal of services negotiations within the WTO. 3. Services and other services-related issues (such as investment and public procurement) should be negotiated in all international trade negotiations, with as much emphasis that the one given to trade in goods. 4. International trade in services negotiations should create much improved opportunities for profitable international business. To that end, they should: • be ambitious in their goals for real liberalisation, (...)
EU Legislative Interests
European Commission Annual Work Programme and Roadmaps European Commission Impact Assessment webpage European Commission Green Deal impact on Trade Policy, European Parliament Legislative Observatory EUR-Lex database Work in Progress document - by Parliamentary committees DG Trade activities - Trade Policy Review Trade negotiations with Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand,Philippines, ASEAN, United Arab Emirates (UAE), etc. Follow up of Implementation of EU FTAs, inc. EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement; Follow up of ratification process of FTA with Mercosur, Revision of FTA with Mexico, CAI with China WTO Joint Statement Initiatives on Services Domestic Regulation; E-Commerce; Investment Facilitation, etc. WTO Moratorium on Customs Duties on Electronic Transmissions WTO Reform EU Digital trade agenda (DMA, DSA, DGA, Data Act, impact on Artificial Intelligence, EU Cloud Services certification scheme, International Digital Strategy, EU Data Union Strategy, etc)
Communication Activities
Our position papers, press releases and other reports are published on our website: http://www.esf.be/
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
1)ESF works closely with BUSINESSEUROPE (https://www.businesseurope.eu/) for the daily operations, as well as for the legal, social and fiscal matters. 2)ESF is member of the informal "Global Services Coalition" (GSC), a loose gathering of similar coalitions of services industries looking at international trade in services negotiations. 4) ESF has regular contacts with Think Tanks that work on trade policy issues, like ECIPE, CEPS, EIAS.
Organisation Members
http://www.esf.be/new/who-we-are/members/by-sector/ LIST OF ESF MEMBERS 1. Amfori 2. Amadeus 3. Amazon 4. Apple 5. Architects' Council of Europe –ACE 6. BDO 7. Bureau International des Producteurs et Intermédiaires d’Assurances – BIPAR 8. BSA - The Software Alliance 9. BUSINESSEUROPE 10. BUSINESSEUROPE WTO Working Group 11. Conseil des Barreaux de l'Union Européenne - CCBE 12. CISCO 13. Danish Shipping 14. DHL Group 15. Digital Europe 16. EK - Confederation of Finnish Industries 17. EuroCommerce 18. European Banking Federation – FBE 19. European Broadcasting Union - EBU 20. European Community Shipowners’ Associations – ECSA 21. European Express Association - EEA 22. Fédération de l’Industrie Européenne de la Construction – FIEC 23. General Council of the Bar of England & Wales 24. Google 25. Huawei (Suspended) 26. IBM Europe, Middle East & Africa 27. Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales – ICAEW 28. Insurance Europe 29. Irish Business and Employers’ Confederation - IBEC 30. Law Society of England & Wales 31. Le Groupe La Poste 32. Microsoft Corporation Europe 33. Mouvement des entreprises de France – MEDEF 34. PostEurop 35. Svenskt Näringsliv (Confederation of Swedish Enterprise) 36. Telenor Group 37. TechUK 38. The CityUK 39. UPS 40. Zurich Financial Services
Additional Information
All revenues of ESF derive from annual membership fees.