concerning, inter alia, the environment, regional policy, employment and social affairs, and civil society, – having regard to the establishment in February 2012 of the EU-China High-Level People-to-People Dialogue, which will accommodate all EU-China joint initiatives in this field, – having regard to the scientific and technological cooperation agreement between the EC and China signed in December 1998, which entered into force in 20001 and was renewed in 2004 and 2009, the Science and Technology Partnership Agreement signed on 20 May 2009 and the EC-China Joint statement on energy cooperation of 8 December 2010, – having regard to the agreement with China on cooperation in the EU’s Galileo satellite navigation programme, signed on 30 October 2003, – having regard to the 15th EU-China Summit, which took place in Brussels on 20 September 2012, and to the Joint Press Communiqué issued at the conclusion thereof, – having regard to the EU-China Partnership on Climate Change agreed, and the Joint Declaration on Climate Change issued, at the 8th EU-China Summit in September 2005, – having regard to the EU-China Joint Declaration on Energy Security made in Brussels on 3 May 2012, and to the 5th meeting of the Energy Dialogue between the EC and China held in November 2011, – having regard to the China-EU Round Tables, – having regard to the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which took place from 8-14 November 2012, and to the leadership changes in the Politburo Standing Committee as decided at the congress, – having regard to its most recent Interparliamentary Meeting with China, which took place in Brussels on 11 and 12 July 2012, – having regard to its recent resolutions on China, in particular those of 23 May 2012 on EU and China: Unbalanced Trade?2, of 2 February 2012 on the EU foreign policy towards the BRICs and other emerging powers: objectives and strategies3, and of 12 September 2012 on the Annual Report from the Council to the European Parliament on the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)4, – having regard to its resolutions of 7 September 2006 on EU-China relations5 and of 5 February 2009 on trade and economic relations with China6, – having regard to its human rights resolutions of 21 January 2010 on human rights violations 1 2 3 4 5 6 OJ L 6, 11.1.2000, p. 40. Texts adopted, P7_TA(2012)0218. Texts adopted, P7_TA(2012)0017. Texts adopted, P7_TA(2012)0334. OJ C 305 E, 14.12.2006, p. 219. OJ C 67 E, 18.3.2010, p. 132.