Living up to its reputation as an unparalleled networking and showcasing opportunity, ICC WCF 8th World Chambers Congress will feature more than 10,000 squared metres of exhibition space as well as an extended and enhanced B2B programme.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is pleased to announce the appointment of James Bacchus as Chair of the ICC Commission on Trade and Investment Policy. Mr Bacchus served as a founding member and Chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Lugard, Partner at Baker Botts, as the new Chair of the ICC Commission on Competition, and Anne Riley, Associate General Counsel at Shell International, as a one of its Vice-Chairs. Ms Riley will be working in close collaboration with existing Vice-Chair Michael Blechman, Special Counsel at Kaye Scholer.
Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP), an initiative of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), is concerned that measures included within the newly introduced EU Tobacco Products Directive will result in a backwash of unintended negative consequences, undermining intellectual property (IP) rights and increasing the problem of counterfeiting throughout the EU.
ICC is encouraging governments to ratify an international treaty that proposes simplified authentication formalities to produce public documents abroad. ICC is also calling for expanded and modernized use of the treaty drafted by the Hague Conference on Private International Law.
Preparations for the 2013 Russia G20 Business Summit were initiated Wednesday in a meeting hosted by Alexander Shokhin, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP). Mr. Shokhin, who has been designated by Russian President Vladimir Putin to to organize the Business Summit, was joined by over 50 Russian and international companies, the B20 Coalition of national business federations and key international business groups including the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), International Organization of Employers (IOE), the World Economic Forum (WEF) and International Business Leaders Forum-Russia.
ICC has issued a new volume containing decisions rendered in expert proceedings under the ICC DOCDEX Rules over the last three years. The publication, ICC DOCDEX Decisions 2009-2012, is the third in a series containing decisions reached by ICC expert panels in Documentary Credit Dispute Resolution Expertise (DOCDEX) procedures. The decisions have become an important reference for practitioners eager to know how ICC banking rules apply in daily practice.
Countries should reduce discriminatory and burdensome taxes on telecommunications goods and services to help drive adoption and use of broadband, mobile and other services in the sector, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) says.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) today announced the creation of an Advisory Board and Executive Committee to provide strategic direction for its Commission on Banking – a leading global policy and rule-making body for the banking industry.
ICC has bestowed its inaugural ICC Merchant of Peace Award to Rona Yircali, ICC World Chambers Federation Chair, and Martin Granholm, former member of the ICC Executive Board, in recognition of their contribution to the promotion of peace and prosperity through international trade and investment.
Throughout the two week climate conference in Doha, ICC highlighted business solutions that are addressing climate change. Many companies are reducing greenhouse gas emissions every day by deploying innovative technologies, processes, products, and services.
A recent ICC Seminar on Procurement and Trade has underscored the necessity for further discourse on proposed European Union (EU) regulation on the access of third country goods and services to internal public procurement markets.
The first in a four-part series of ICC lectures on intellectual property (IP) took place last Friday in Saint Petersburg State University.
Business leaders presented to World Trade Organization (WTO) permanent ambassadors and representatives, at WTO headquarters in Geneva today, their initial recommendations for driving international trade negotiations out of an 11-year deadlock and boosting the global economy.
On the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha, representatives from business, UN, government and other stakeholder groups engaged in discussions on the role of fiscal instruments in environmental policy-making with the objective of identifying principles for a framework for environmental taxation and environment-related tax measures that promote green, inclusive economies.
Teams from 66 universities have made the grade to compete in ICC’s 8th International Commercial Mediation Competition, set to take place February 2013.
Just 18 months after the endorsement of United Nations (UN) Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, findings of a pilot survey have indicated an upward trend in awareness and engagement by businesses to consider human rights in their practices.
ICC has produced a tool to help companies and trade associations self-regulate online behavioural advertising (OBA) using global principles published in the Consolidated ICC Code of Advertising and Marketing Communications Practice in 2011.
ICC has reaffirmed its support for the Hague Choice of Court Convention and urges governments to bring it into force without further delay. Despite strong interest from various states, as well as the signature of both the EU and the US, the ratification of the Convention has not progressed as swiftly as hoped, to the detriment of business.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) will once again hold the Global Business Day, the premier business event at the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference. This year’s event will take place on 3 December at the Diplomatic Club in Doha.