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ICC
Publishing produces and distributes
books on all aspects of international
trade. Their content is derived from
the work of ICC commissions, divisions
and individual experts. Topics range
from arbitration and legal publications,
to banking practice, commerce and transport,
environmental publications and reference
works, reports and studies.
ICC rules and guidelines form the core
of the publishing programme. These are
updated as required to take account
of technical developments and the evolution
of commercial and banking practices.
ICC Publishing also produces guides,
case studies, handbooks and commentaries
to assist practitioners in all sectors
of international business, as well as
authoritative reference works for commercial
lawyers, bankers and traders.
ICC United Kingdom is one of the major
distributors of ICC publications and
our list covers over 100 titles. We
also have excellent support from the
London Chamber of Commerce & Industry
and Financial World Bookshop, both of
whom stock and sell our publications.
Although no major new bestsellers were
launched in 2002, ICC Publishing did
add some popular new titles to its catalogue.
One of the first new publications to
be launched in the year was the second
edition of the ICC Model Distributorship
Contract (Publication No.646), which
provides a uniform contractual framework
for drawing up distributorship agreements
internationally. As is often now the
case with ICC publications, the book
includes a CD-ROM containing the full
text of the model contract and its annexes.
It forms part of an invaluable series
of ICC books that address the problem
of drawing up contracts in an international
environment that lacks regulatory uniformity.
Other important publications in the
series are A to Z of International Trade
(Publication 623), the ICC Model Commercial
Agency Contract (Publication 644), the
ICC Model Occasional Intermediary Contract
(Publication 619), the ICC Model International
Sale Contract (Publication No.556) and
the ICC Model International Franchising
Contract (Publication 557).
Banking publications are a major category.
The most important new addition to this
section was the new UCP supplement for
electronic presentation, eUCP (Publication
UCP/2). The eUCP covers electronic formats,
amendments, place of presentation and
notice of dishonour and preclusion.
It is an addition to, not an amendment
of, UCP 500. The supplement was published
in January and followed shortly afterwards
by the ICC Guide to the eUCP (Publication
639), which explains the concepts behind
the eUCP rules and suggests how and
where they should be applied. Cross
references are also made with other
ICC banking instruments such as International
Standby Practices - ISP 98 (Publication
590) and the Uniform Rules for Demand
Guarantees – URDG 458 (Publication
No.458). Another major new banking publication
was Trade Finance Fraud (Publication
643), covering some of the most spectacular
frauds of recent years. This book was
written by ICC Commercial Crime Services,
an ICC specialist division based in
the UK.
The ICC International Court of Arbitration
is one of the foremost bodies of its
type in the world. Our arbitration publications
are therefore essential reading for
anyone involved in this ever-expanding
area. An important new arbitration publication
released in 2002 was the UNIDROIT Principles
of International Commercial Contracts
(Publication 642). These rules are applied
increasingly to supplement or interpret
national laws, give international endorsement
to solutions based on national laws,
or as the governing law of the contract.
The publication offers a unique collection
of articles by leading trade law specialists,
analysing arbitral case law and appraising
the UNIDROIT Principles in the context
of international contract law and practice.
The horizons of dispute resolution are
widening around the world. Alongside
litigation and arbitration, other methods
of settling conflicts, such as mediation,
conciliation, negotiation, mini-trials
and neutral evaluation are being used
in the business world to an increasing
degree. In recognition of this, ICC
Publishing produced a special supplement
to the Bulletin of the ICC International
Court of Arbitration looking at ADR:
International Applications (Publication
640). Specialists from around the world
explain the status of ADR in their respective
regions, with a focus on key points
of interest in this rapidly developing
field. Also in the dispute resolution
area, ICC Publishing released an updated
and expanded version of its popular
Dispute Resolution in Asia (Publication
949), which examines the question of
whether there is a distinct Asian style
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