The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), under the umbrella of its G20 Advisory Group, today consulted with business leaders from European countries on key messages on growth and jobs for G20 leaders ahead of the G20 Summit, being held 3-4 November in Cannes, France.
Piracy on the world’s seas has risen to record levels, with Somali pirates behind 56% of the 352 attacks reported this year, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau (IMB) revealed today in its latest global piracy report. Meanwhile, more Somali hijack attempts are being thwarted by strengthened anti-piracy measures.
Piracy on the world’s seas has risen to record levels, with Somali pirates behind 56% of the 352 attacks reported this year, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau (IMB) revealed today in its latest global piracy report. Meanwhile, more Somali hijack attempts are being thwarted by strengthened anti-piracy measures
Responding to the G20’s call on business to stamp out corruption, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has launched the ICC Rules on Combating Corruption. The new ICC rules delineate measures companies should take to prevent corruption, including strong measures to end bribery and extortion.
BBC Television featured an interview with ICC Policy Director Stefano Bertasi, who spoke about the business organization’s viewpoints ahead of the G20 Summit in Cannes, in repeated broadcasts of its World Business Report today.
The ICC Commission on Trade and Investment Policy, holding its biannual meeting in Geneva this week, heard from selected chairmen of the Doha Round negotiating groups to discuss the latest status of the negotiations, notably in the fields of rules, services and trade facilitation. While these issues are of key concern to business, they tend to be overshadowed by the negotiations on agriculture and industrial products.
ICC has released the third issue of the G20 Executive Brief, a newsletter aimed at keeping the organization’s international network and the business community informed of its activities ahead of this year’s G20 Summit, 3-4 November in Cannes.
The International Chamber of Commerce welcomes the call issued by the G8 leaders in St. Petersburg for a concerted effort to conclude the Doha Round of trade negotiations by the end of this year - with a new deadline of mid-August for agreeing on negotiating procedures for agricultural and industrial goods. But will they now exercise their authority to push through the compromises needed to get concrete results?
Jeffrey Shane, the Washington lawyer who headed the ICC Commission on Air Transport for seven years, has been sworn in as Associate Deputy Secretary in the United States Department of Transportation.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Geoffrey Gamble, Esquire as the incoming Chair of the ICC Commission on Trade and Investment.
WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy announced a suspension of the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations.
Company tax experts have lodged early objections to proposals floated by the European Commission to use International Accounting Standards (IAS) as a starting point for an EU-wide tax base for multinational companies.
In a policy statement sent to the Commission, the International Chamber of Commerce maintained that tax authorities should respect the differences between taxation and financial accounting rules and refrain from using companies' financial results for tax adjustments.
In meetings last week with ICC Chairman Marcus Wallenberg and ICC Secretary General Guy Sebban, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and the EC Director General for Trade, David O’Sullivan, affirmed their commitment to making progress with the Doha round and said they believed it could be restarted in 2007 with the aim of finalizing it in 2008.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), under the umbrella of its G20 Advisory Group, today consulted with CEOs of leading companies in the Middle East and North Africa on key business messages for G20 leaders on stimulating economic growth and job creation.
As the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) opens here today, world business is committed to help create an international framework, supple enough to safeguard biodiversity and promote its sustainable use, the International Chamber of Commerce said.
The International Chamber of Commerce commends G8 leaders for proposing measures to better protect intellectual property rights at the G8 Summit this month and calls on those governments to turn their support into concrete action.
Counterfeiting and piracy are a global epidemic, reaching a scale now too great for individual governments, industry sectors or companies to solve. In response, top government officials, business leaders and international law enforcement officials met in Geneva to call for a greater global marshalling of efforts and resources to counter the growing illegal trade in counterfeit and pirate products. The call for action came at the Third Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, which convened in January 2007.
A programme has recently been launched in London to help seafarers and families cope with the physical and mental trauma caused by torture and abuse at the hands of pirates.
Business executives from the ICC G20 Advisory Group met with prominent economists from around the world yesterday to explore how business and G20 governments can work together to stimulate the global economy ahead of the upcoming Summit in Cannes, France.
Business experts and government officials from around the world will meet at the Global Innovation and IP Forum in Beijing on 27-28 March to build strategies to fight the increasing problem of counterfeit goods and piracy of intellectual property rights.