The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is kicking off a fresh round of Incoterms® rules Masterclasses, set to run from 17-18 February 2011, attracting participants interested in learning straight from the source of the revised rules.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon will open the 7th World Chambers Congress, a meeting of chambers of commerce and businesses from around the world, in Mexico City on 8-10 June this year. Delegates will also hear Coca-Cola Chief Executive Muhtar Kent and Rona Yircali, Chairman of the ICC World Chambers Federation (WCF), the body organizing the event in partnership with hosts Mexico City National Chamber of Commerce (CANACO).
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has released a new report that provides compelling evidence of the value of IP and the benefits provided by strong enforcement of IP regulations to protect against IP theft.
A new report released today by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) indicates that the global economic and social impacts of counterfeiting and piracy will reach US$1.7 trillion by 2015 and put 2.5 million legitimate jobs at risk each year. The report was launched at the 6th Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, during a panel session on economic impacts.
Over 900 delegates from intergovernmental organizations, national governments, enforcement agencies and business from more than 100 countries convened today in Paris to address the serious global impact of the growing trade in counterfeit and pirated goods and the need to build respect for intellectual property in a balanced and sustainable way. The Sixth Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, meeting on February 2-3, 2011, is organized under the High Patronage of the President of the French Republic.
The study, Intellectual Property: Powerhouse for Innovation and Economic Growth, is the result of a collaborative effort on the part of ICC BASCAP and the ICC Commission on Intellectual Property. The report was launched during the 6th Global Congress on Counterfeiting and explores the benefits of intellectual property (IP) protection in strengthening national economies, driving innovation and technology, fostering new ideas, and enhancing society and culture.
The Chairman of ICC, Victor K. Fung, has described the ICC Research Foundation as the development laboratory for issues of concern to ICC and its National Committees around the world. The chief aim of the Foundation is to support research which provides useful data, analysis and policy options which can be of use to ICC members in addressing issues of common concern, including global trade, trade finance, employment, climate change.
Following outcry in December 2010 at a decision to exclude all non-governmental stakeholders from its working group on improvements to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) has confirmed the names of five business representatives who have been invited to serve as special guests in the CSTD Chair’s special working group on IGF improvements.
The highly anticipated ICC Mediation Competition kicks off this week in Paris drawing a record number of participating universities.
Featuring leading arbitrators and scholars, and a mock arbitral tribunal, the ICC Institute of World Business Law’s third annual Masterclass for Arbitrators is set to take place from 28 February to 2 March at the International Chamber of Commerce headquarters in Paris.
The International Chamber of Commerce participated today in a high-level conference in Brussels jointly organized by the Council of Europe and European Commission to mark the occasion of Data Protection Day 2011.
The conference, Data protection 30 years later: from European to international standards, aimed to raise awareness on data protection and promote it as a fundamental right. It featured welcome messages from Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission, and Thorbjorn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
As discussions on global economic recovery take centre stage at the annual Davos gathering of political and business leaders, ICC is driving home the message that international trade is crucial to restoring the health of the global economy.
Chambers of Commerce have an extra month to put their best projects forward for the 2011 World Chambers Competition, as the deadline for applications has been extended to 1 March 2011.
A group of prominent Palestinian businessmen have begun active operations representing the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Palestine. The Group is working under the banner of ICC Palestine from the West Bank city of Ramallah, an open, dynamic and multicultural city which has become a business hub for the Palestinian private sector and international community, and a logical seat for the newly established ICC Palestine.
The World Chambers Federation (WCF) today announced the results of its first ever election to select General Council members. More than a third of WCF’s members, from its global membership from more than 120 countries voted for their 20 preferred representatives in online elections.
Jean-Guy Carrier was elected the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Secretary General today, having served as Acting Secretary General since July 2010. He is also Director of Programmes for ICC’s Research Foundation. Harold McGraw III, Chairman of the United States Council for International Business and President and Chief Executive Officer of The McGraw-Hill Companies, becomes ICC Vice-Chairman. He replaces Stephen Green, former Chairman of HSBC, who has moved on to become Trade Minister for the UK government.
ICC will continue to offer its popular Incoterms® training classes around the world in 2011, teaching hundreds of thousands of practitioners how to use the new and revised Incoterms 2010 trading terms which took effect this month.
More people were taken hostage at sea in 2010 than in any year on record, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau’s (IMB) global piracy report disclosed today. Pirates captured 1,181 seafarers and killed eight. A total of 53 ships were hijacked.
A recent incident could signal a worrying development in the tactics employed by Somali pirates, according to the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB).