ICC has achieved an objective, securing representation from all five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in the election of seven new members to its Executive Board.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees URDG 758, which today celebrate their two-year anniversary, are increasingly being incorporated into international trade contracts, where they provide a welcome element of financial security and trust in a precarious economic climate. The World Bank’s update of its model guarantee forms to include URDG 758 last week is the latest step towards ICC’s rules becoming the international standard for demand guarantee practice.
Registration has opened for a two-day training session on the 2012 ICC Rules of Arbitration, hosted by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) on 8 and 9 October 2012 in Paris.
An engaging roster of top consumer protection and advertising self-regulation experts from the United States and around the world made the line-up of speakers at an ICC seminar on Consumer Savvy Marketing held in New York City on 7 June. This seminar, hosted by the ICC Commission on Marketing and Advertising, provided the opportunity for companies and legal experts to stay up to date with the dramatically changing landscape of marketing campaigns and to better understand how rules apply to technological and practice developments.
ICC announced today the publication of ICC Banking Commission Opinions 2009-2011, the latest volume in a series of renowned books of Commission Opinions dating back more than four decades.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is encouraged that business recommendations for boosting the global economy, including those aimed at unblocking trade negotiations, were taken into account by G20 leaders at their recent Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) today unveils its new web portal, which has been entirely re-built and re-designed to bring it up to date with ICC’s expansion as the world business organization.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) today welcomed the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, as a stepping stone to achieve sustainable development while helping to eradicate poverty.
A report highlighting latest details of the plight of seafarers at the hands of Somali pirates was launched on Friday 22 June at a press conference in London. The report, ‘The Human Cost of Piracy 2011’, is written jointly by Kaija Hurlburt of One Earth Future for its Oceans Beyond Piracy project and by the International Chamber of Commerce International Maritime Bureau (IMB).
Since the debut of the World Chambers Congress more than a decade ago, ICC WCF has seen chambers lining up to host the event which has become the international forum for chamber leaders to network and learn about new areas of innovation from their peers around the world.
Juan Elvira, Minister of the Environment, Mexico (right) and Carlos Busquets, Deputy Director, ICC Department of Policy and Business Practices, speaking at a media conference in Rio de Janeiro on the G20/B20 outcomes and Rio+20
Eleven companies received the 2012 World Business and Development Awards (WBDA) for their efforts to improve living standards in some of the world’s most disadvantaged communities. Winners were recognized at a ceremony concluding the Business Action for Sustainable Development Business Day taking place during the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), where world leaders along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, have convened.
“The world economy is experiencing the worst crisis of the last 60 years, with growth falling in many regions, unemployment rising, multilateral talks stalled and protectionist measures proliferating”, said Jean-Guy Carrier, Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the world business organization.
Business and industry representatives are increasingly concerned with the slow pace of negotiations reported during the first week of Rio+20 meetings in Brazil, with little change on previously held positions.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) presented policy priorities on behalf of global business on the eve of this year’s Summit of G20 leaders in Los Cabos, Mexico.
Green economy and sustainable development require immediate action, says private sector
Short term action is critical for long term investment, cooperation and implementation
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) hosted the “Creativity 4 Innovation Forum” on 13 June in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event, held on the sidelines of the United Nations Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, was open to the public and brought together a mix of speakers from senior corporate executives, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, government officials, media and other stakeholder groups.
Trade documentation specialists, from chambers of commerce from more than 20 countries, set in motion a series of global initiatives and projects during their recent meeting on 6 June in Paris, reinforcing their central role in helping business do international trade.
The Economic Sanctions in the Global Economy Conference, organized under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Institute of World Business Law, provides a unique public-private forum to discuss the extraterritorial application of economic sanctions and issues such as how judges and arbitrators are expected to adjudicate a claim against non-performance triggered by foreign economic sanctions. The conference will take place in Paris on 25 June 2012.
ICC is among four dispute resolution providers invited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to administer disputes arising from applications made for new Internet generic Top-Level Domain Names (“gTLD”), a shift that will see a dramatic increase in the existing number of domain name endings currently available.