2.5. Education and Culture
♤ The framework of India-EU cooperation in the fields of education and culture is provided by three Joint Declarations covering cooperation in the fields of Education and Training, Multilingualism and Culture.
♤ 50,000 Indian students are in EU in higher education, with 5,000 having been provided ERASMUS scholarships.♤ These negotiations, covering trade, investment protection and intellectual property, have remained deadlocked since 2013.♤ EU wants stringent measures on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) and Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary measureso India had unilaterally terminated BITs with most EU members in 2017, asking them to renegotiate the treaty based on a new model BIT passed by the Cabinet in December 2015.o intellectual property rights,♤ The EU, besides demanding significant duty cuts in automobiles, wants tax reduction in wines, spirits and dairy products, and a strong intellectual property regime.2.6.2. Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures♤ Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures are measures to protect humans, animals, and plants from diseases, pests, or contaminants.
