The inaugural Ministerial meeting of India-EU TTC was held in Brussels on 16 May 2023, where all the three working groups under TTC set out their cooperation on a wide range of issues including semi-conductors, high-performance computing, digital public infrastructures, clean energy technologies, supply chain resilience and trade issues. The meeting was co-chaired on the Indian side by External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr. S. Jaishankar, Minister of Commerce & Industry (CIM) Shri. Piyush Goyal and Shri. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Electronics and Information Technology. Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, Ms. Margrethe Vestager and Mr. Valdis Dombrovskis co-chaired the meeting from the European side. They were joined by High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Mr. Josep Borrell, as well as Commissioner for Internal Market, Mr. Thierry Breton.
In this meeting, India and EU have converged on a Work Plan including three main actions to start with:
Action 1: Tackling waste management, of water and plastic litter and waste to including for energy and marine plastic pollution
Action 2: E-mobility, battery performance and recycling
Action 3: Standards.
This Work Plan was also endorsed in this meeting .
(The 1st Ministerial meeting of India-EU TTC held in Brussels on 16 May 2023)
(The 1st Ministerial meeting of India-EU TTC Working Group-2 on Green and Clean Energy Technologies held in Brussels on 16th May 2023)