2. INTRODUCTION
• Indian-European Union relations date back to the
1960s.
• India was one of the first countries to establish
relations with what is now the European
Union(EU)
• The two signed bilateral agreements in 1973, when
the United Kingdom joined.
• The most recent cooperation agreement was
signed in 1994 and an action plan was signed in
2005.
• As of April 2007 the Commission is pursuing a
7. TRADE RELATIONS
• UK-India’s 5th leading trade partner.
• India is UK's 15th largest export market.
• India exports- textiles and readymade garments, gems and jewellery,
footwear, leather and leather goods, engineering goods, metal
manufactures, power generating equipment, software services,
pharmaceuticals, chemicals, marine products, rice, tea, nuts, preserved
fruits, vegetables.
•India's imports- non-ferrous metals, gold, rough diamonds, power
generating and telecom equipment, transport equipment, industrial
machinery and chemicals.
9. TRADE RELATIONS
• German exports to India - machinery, chemicals and pharmaceuticals,
electro technical goods, vehicles and iron and steel.
• German imports from India - cotton garments and fabrics, leather and
leather goods, silk fabrics, chemical and pharmaceutical products and
garments and carpets and rugs as well as precious stones.
• In 2007-2008, the Indo-German trade
stood at 12.07 billion Euros and it is
projected to cross 30 billion Euros in 2010.
-> Germany has emerged as
India’s largest trading partner.
11. TRADE RELATIONS
• Indian Exports to - Information technology
based services, Agricultural products, Fisheries
products, Ready-made garments,Cotton,Cotton
accessories, Cotton yarn, Cotton fabric,
Petroleum products, Man-made fibres for ready
made garments, Transport equipments.
• French exports to India - electrical equipment, aeronautical & space
construction products, measuring & control equipments, iron & steel
products, equipment for emission and transmission of sound & image,
mechanical equipments, organic and other chemical products, general &
special usage machines, equipment for reception & recording of sound &
image, machine tools, engines and turbines, etc.
12. OTHER COUNTRIES
GREECE
• Greek imports from India include cotton, synthetic fibres, fabrics, vehicles,
iron, steel and fruit, while
• Greek exports to India include fibres, fertilizers, organic chemicals,
pharmaceutical products, leather goods, metal processing machinery, etc.
ITALY
• Indian exports to Italy include silk, furnishing, and linen.
• Italian exports coming to India are Apparatus, Electrical
appliances,Electrotechnics ,Metallurgy, Precision instruments and Tools.
SWITZERLAND
• Swiss exports to India include Machinery, Instruments & Apparatus,
Precious metals , jewellery and coins, Metal and metal products, Watches,
Plastic and rubber products ,vehicles and airplanes.
• Swiss imports to India include Textiles, Chemical and pharmaceuticals,
Precious metals, jewellery and coins, Agricultural produce, Machinery,
Leather goods, shoes, umbrellas ,Metal good and Watches.
13. Major Companies of EU Trading in
India
• Addidas of Germany is one of the top company in India in terms
of sports products.
• Germany’s Volkswagon have just entered the Indian markets.
• Britain’s Vodafone have also proven their metal in the Indian
markets when Hutch was rebranded to Vodafone on September
21, 2007.
• Cantabil of Italy is also flourishing in India.
• Apart from all these companies Perfumes of France like
Cobra,etc., swiss watches and Greek Ships are in great demand
in India.
14. During the India-EU Summit held at Lisbon in June 2000, it was agreed that an Indo-EU
Working Group (WG) on Information Society would be set up for promoting bilateral
cooperation in all areas of ICT
Areas of Common Interest –
The EU and India have agreed to
Enhance EU-India co-operation in the Seventh Framework Programme
Exchange views on a regular basis on - e-commerce, internet governance, universal
service
Encourage India-EU joint research proposals and collaborative activities in 4G, e-
government, e-education and e-health
Exchange views on telecommunication spectrum management and on roaming and
interoperability of telecommunication services
Work towards GEANT-ERNET connectivity.
JWG meeting - The sixth JWG meeting was held in March 2009 at Brussels. where Indian
side expressed the desire to proactively participate in development of the technology
for mutual benefits in which resources can be pooled together. Some of the possible
areas for strategic cooperation are standards for e-Governance, e-Security, knowledge
network, biometrics, telecom like energy efficiency & alternate energy source and
automated spectrum monitoring, open technologies/open source and institutional
structure and mechanism.
15. Science and technology -> bilateral cooperation; Grids, new network
architectures, e-health and entrepreneurship are among the ICT themes
Republic of Bulgaria
was signed in May 2006
Areas of Common Interest - Software & hardware industries, ICT application, e-
governance, e-commerce, e-business, capacity building & HRD, STPs, SMEs and joint
research projects
Joint Working Group - The third meeting of the India-Bulgaria Joint Forum on ICT was
held in October 2007 in New Delhi and identified e-Governance, Technology Park, ICT
Education, R&D and Info Security as areas for strengthening of cooperation in ICT.
France
MOU was signed in September 2000
Areas of Common Interest - Software development, IT enabled services, telemedicine,
cyber education, electronic commerce, electronic governance, information security &
cyber crime, human resource development, research, design and development and
exploring third country markets
Joint Working Group - The seventh meeting of the JWG was held in October 2009 at
Paris and discussed issues like French experience in broadband and Wimax, Digital
economy, Spectrum, Policy for innovation and competitiveness of SME/clusters and E-
governance.
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17. Statistics showing India’s import-export with EU
Region Exports (April-Feb) Imports (April-Feb)
2007-08 2008-09 2007-08 2008-09
1. Europe 1,33,151 1,65,925 1,75,335 2,23,813
1.1 EU countries 1,23,219 1,55,266 1,27,315 1,61,593
1.2 Other WE
9,553 10,123 47,881 62,115
countries
1.3 East Europe 379 536 138 106
