The Seminar on “Legal Framework for Financing Cultural and Creative Industries: Comparative Perspectives”, being part of the 2nd EU-Macao Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field, will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on November 28th and from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on November 29th, in the Macao Cultural Center, located at Avenida Xian Xing Hai, NAPE. It is jointly organized by the Institute of European Studies of Macau and by the Law Reform and International Law Bureau.

This activity aims at providing a platform that shares the experience of Europe and China in establishing legal regimes of financing or supporting the formation and development of the Cultural and Creative Industries that brings together different experts and legal professionals from the region to share their professional legal knowledge on this important contemporary theme. This event will focus on the following topics:

I) EU / China Partnership on Culture and Creative Industries;

II) The Development of Business and Protecting of E-Copyright in the Digital Age: take China as a case;

III) When and how should Creative Industries in Macao be supported?

IV) The experience of CreativeMacau- The pioneer CCI organization in Macau;

V) Legal Framework of Taiwan for Financing Cultural and Creative Industries;

VI) Cultural industries, clusters and urban organisation.

The seminar will feature six round table exchange sessions / discussions as well as experts coming from China, Macau, Taiwan, Portugal and Belgium. This initiative will be conducted in English, with simultaneous translation into Mandarin.

The 2nd EU-Macao Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field, which incorporates this seminar, has as its main objective the “Consolidation of the Macao Legal System” and will take place until December 2012.

The execution of this Programme is organised by the Law Reform and International Law Bureau, with the participation of several other MSAR’s entities and public departments, namely, the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, the Legal Affairs Bureau, the Economic Services, the Financial Services Bureau and the Institute of European Studies of Macao.