The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has confirmed that it expects to start accepting and issuing ATA Carnets early next year, making the federation the 69th country to join the ATA system.
Cindy Duncan, Senior Vice President, Carnet Operations, United States Council for International Business (USCIB) has been elected Vice-Chair of the ICC World Chambers Federation (WCF) World ATA Carnet Council (WATAC). In her new position, Ms Duncan will support WATAC Chairman, Peter Bishop, to coordinate the activities of the Council and its Administrative Committee. Mr Bishop was re-elected Chairman by WATAC in June 2010 to complete a final three-year term.
ICC welcomes the agreement reached in Cancun during the United Nations climate change conference as a solid step forward towards the development of a robust post-2012 framework agreement.
ICC and its Business Action to Support the Information Society initiative have joined with nine other business and Internet organizations to convey strong objection to a decision taken by the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) to compose its Chair’s Working Group on Improvements to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), exclusively of government representatives.
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The Russian translation of the 10th edition of the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) Intellectual Property Roadmap for Business and Policymakers was launched today at the second International Forum of Intellectual Property, entitled Expopriority' 2010, which is currently taking place in Moscow from 7-9 December.
The Intellectual Property (IP) Roadmap has been translated into Russian for the first time, demonstrating ICC’s commitment to the Russian-speaking business community, and ensuring its engagement and influence on the major IP issues it faces.
Intellectual property (IP) has not only become a fundamental factor in the process of turning a great idea into a successful product or service on the market, but also an indispensable element for the development of Mexico's global competitiveness.
There is huge support in the business community for government efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but the lack of progress towards a global framework and momentum in the negotiations poses a serious risk to that continuing interest and support. The global business community agreed it must scale up its own efforts to find solutions to climate change, regardless of the outcome at the United Nations climate change talks in Cancun, and warned government officials that the absence of a global framework is a major obstacle to business efforts.
As new technologies lead us to reconsider existing privacy concepts and boundaries, ICC hosted a unique conference to deliberate how existing data protection laws apply in a rapidly changing landscape.
A ‘conference within a conference’ the one-day event took place on the second day of the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ Europe Data Protection Congress in Paris on 29-30 November.
On Sunday President Jacob Zuma will launch Durban Global Business Day at a reception dinner to be hosted by Cynthia Carroll, CEO, Anglo American. The fifth annual Global Business Day will address the business approach to meeting the climate change challenge.
ICC leaders and members stepped into the spotlight during a variety of events at the UN climate change conference this week, demonstrating ICC’s influential role as the business and industry focal point at the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) and pushing for a robust international agreement on climate change.
Global business has a strong presence at the 2010 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) in Cancun, Mexico which begins today and is seeking enhanced channels for engagement to ensure that the process benefits from business dynamism and expertise.
The impact of additional generic top level domain names (gTLDs) to business were highlighted during a gathering of business experts at ICC headquarters earlier this week. Speaking at an ICC Commission on E-Business, IT and Telecoms (EBITT) meeting, guest speaker David Taylor, Partner, Hogan Lovells, discussed the potential impact that this will have on the Internet of tomorrow and threats that this initiative poses to businesses. He also highlighted some of the opportunities that this can bring to some businesses. Covering the situation with regard to the domain name industry today, the level of registrations and disputes across the world, Mr Taylor stressed to the participants that: “The situation is complex today and is likely to get worse tomorrow."
The International Trademark Association (INTA) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) welcome the release of the final text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and, in partnership with the Business Response Group (BRG), called on negotiating parties to take the necessary steps to finalize ACTA and begin its implementation. The BRG, which consists of 18 associations from around the world that publicly support ACTA, also provided negotiators with recommendations on how to further strengthen the trade agreement.
Rona Yircali, Chair of the ICC World Chambers Federation (WCF), joined California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday for the launch of Regions 20 (R20), a coalition to help mobilize sub-national governments in the fight against climate change.
Business expectations are falling worldwide despite improvements in the state of the global economy for the sixth consecutive quarter, according to the World Economic Survey (WES) published today by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the Munich-based Ifo Institute for Economic Research.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) welcomes the commitment of the Seoul G20 Summit to complete the Doha Round by 2011 and other measures to ensure that trade can make a meaningful contribution to the global economic recovery and job creation.
The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has identified a series of potential documentary frauds related to purported shipments into North Africa.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is playing a leading role at an international gathering of over 100 CEOs to voice the views of global business on vital issues and demonstrate that increased cooperation between business and governments is crucial to the global economic recovery and to sustained economic growth.
The G20 Summit in Seoul should resist protectionism and economic nationalism, restore trade finance to more normal levels and strengthen multilateral cooperation to improve the health of the global economy, ICC Chairman Rajat Gupta told Korean President Lee Myung-bak today.