European Commission and European External Action Service issue 2016 Annual Report on the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Since the handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China in 1997, the European Union and its Member States have closely followed political and economic developments in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR). In order to fulfil the 1997 commitment to the European Parliament, an annual report is issued on developments in Hong Kong. The European Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) adopted on 26 April 2017 the 19th annual report to the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers on political and economic developments in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) in 2016.