International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Secretary General Jean-Guy Carrier will join French Economy, Finance and Industry Minister Christine Lagarde at the opening of the Sixth Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy in Paris on 2 February 2011 to address the question of building respect for intellectual property in a balanced and sustainable way. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Director General Francis Gurry and his counterparts at INTERPOL, Ronald Noble, and the World Custom’s Organization (WCO), Kunio Mikuriya, are also billed to address delegates during the opening ceremony.
Following years of suspense, the Mexican Customs administration (SAT – Servicio de Administracion Tributaria) has appointed CANACO (the Mexico City Chamber of Commerce) as the national guaranteeing and issuing organization for ATA Carnets in Mexico.
With just one month to go until ICC’s 2nd International Mediation Conference, ICC has extended its early bird offer, giving participants the chance to take advantage of a €60 saving on registrations.
Meeting at UN Headquarters in New York, business leaders in Business Action for Sustainable Development 2012 (BASD 2012) and representatives of UN Member States discussed the crucial role business must play in the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012, commonly known as the Rio+20 Earth Summit. In addition Chad Holliday, the Chair of BASD 2012 and Chairman of Bank of America, addressed the plenary session of the first Intersessional of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012.
With an August 2011 deadline looming for implementation of the new European Commission (EC) Directive on Defence and Sensitive Security Procurement, ICC is set to host a unique seminar to aid understanding of the Directive and its implications in the context of its legal framework.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
Paris The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), through its Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) initiative, will again be one of the business partners in organizing the Sixth Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy. The Congress will be held 2-3 February 2011 in P
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.
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.