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              President Jacob Zuma launches Durban Global Business Day

              Durban, 02/12/2010

              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.

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            • ICC team delivers at UN climate talks

              Cancun, 02/12/2010

              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.

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            • Business sets sights on deeper engagement in climate talks

              Paris, 29/11/2010

              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.

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            • Challenges of new domain names under spotlight at gathering of ICC experts

              Paris, 26/11/2010

              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."

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            • Business associations band together in support of ACTA

              New York, 18/11/2010

              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.

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            • WCF Chair warrants chamber support for R20 initiative

              WCF Chair warrants chamber support for R20 initiative(2)

              Davis, California, 17/11/2010

              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.

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            • World economic recovery nov 2010

              World economic recovery slows as business expectations fall

              Paris, 17/11/2010

              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.

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            • WCF Chair warrants chamber support for R20 initiative

              Davis, California, 17/11/2010

              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.

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            • ICC welcomes G20 pledge to complete Doha Round by 2011

              Seoul, 12/11/2010

              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.

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            • IMB identifies rash of false shipments into North Africa

              London, 11/11/2010

              The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has identified a series of potential documentary frauds related to purported shipments into North Africa.

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            • ICC delivers global business views to G20, heralds innovative Business Summit

              Seoul, 10/11/2010

              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.

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            • ICC leaders meet Korean President ahead of G20 Summit

              Seoul, 09/11/2010

              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.

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            • Nagoya Protocol requires legal certainty, ICC says

              Nagoya, Japan, 02/11/2010

              ICC is calling on governments to ensure that implementation of a newly adopted, international agreement on access and benefit sharing, supports the investment and innovation necessary for the creation of benefits from genetic resources.

              The Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their utilization was adopted during the early hours of 30 October, at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Nagoya, Japan. ICC coordinated the participation of a wide range of business sectors in the negotiations.

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            • Goods and services tax likely to be tabled in next budget session, India’s Revenue Secretary tells ICC

              New Delhi, 29/10/2010

              Theo Keijzer, Chairman of the ICC Commission on Taxation, today underlined the need to remove the apprehensions of international business regarding the "uncertainty and instability" of the Indian tax system caused by mark ups and the retroactivity in the tax system.

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            • Reducing taxes on telecoms goods and services will drive growth, says ICC

              Paris, 28/10/2010

              Burdensome and discriminatory taxes unnecessarily stifle the adoption and use of broadband, mobile and other advanced information and communication technology (ICT) sector tools that are major drivers of development and growth in the information-based economy of the 21st century, said ICC today.

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            • ICC calls on G20 to act decisively to avoid currency wars, protectionism

              Paris, 28/10/2010

              In the run-up to the G20 Summit of world leaders in Seoul next month, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has become increasingly concerned by international economic frictions over “currency wars” as several nations have accused each other of manipulating exchange rates in order to gain competitive advantage for their exports.

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            • FIB warns against suspect gold transactions

              London, 28/10/2010

              The ICC Financial Investigation Bureau (FIB) has recently been referred a number of suspicious transactions relating to gold that has purportedly originated in Africa.

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            • ICC article highlights role of policymaking to harness benefits of cloud computing

              Paris, 26/10/2010

              In an article published recently on BusinessCloud9.com, Herbert Heitmann, Chair of the ICC Commission on E-Business, IT and Telecoms and Executive VP, External Communications, Royal Dutch Shell underscores the importance of judicious policymaking to ensure the continued development of cloud computing services. The article was inspired by an ICC BASIS and Government of Kenya co-hosted cloud computing workshop held during the 5th Internet Governance Forum in Vilnius, Lithuania last month.

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            • ICC Turkey presents first international conference on renowned ICC trade tools

              Paris, 22/10/2010

              Prominent members of the ICC Commission on Commercial Law and Practice and the ICC International Court of Arbitration are set to join other experts from business and banking to present a spectrum of ICC’s globally recognized trade tools at an international conference.

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            • Business and Technical Communities Support Renewal of Internet Governance Forum Mandate

              New York, 21/10/2010

              As the United Nations General Assembly prepares to decide whether to renew the mandate of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) – a multistakeholder body created by the UN for discussion of Internet policy issues – the forum received a strong vote of confidence from the business and technical communities today. At a joint event for UN delegates, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the Internet Society urged UN member states to continue the mandate of the IGF, with its founding principles intact, as a unique space for exchange on important Internet governance policy matters.

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