JOIN THE ICC UNITED KINGDOM

Why companies should join ICC

• ICC is the only organisation that speaks with authority on behalf of enterprises from all sectors in every part of the world. Its thousands of member companies are located in over 130 countries. Through ICC, members project views that command respect and are heeded by governments.
  
  
• ICC gives priority to the issues that most urgently concern its members. Current examples are ICC Tools for E-business - the creation of a body of rules for business self-regulation of electronic commerce; BASCAP (Business action to stop counterfeiting and piracy) - an initiative to improve the enforcement of intellectual property protection and curb counterfeiting and piracy; work on the modernisation of customs procedures - singled out as the source of huge unnecessary costs as tariffs and other barriers to cross-border trade come down.
  
  
• ICC opens the door to the corridors of power. As ICC members, company executives have personal access to government ministers and top international officials who make decisions. Before the G8 Summit every year, ICC leaders put across business views on global economic issues at a private meeting with the head of the host government.
  
  
• A stream of laws and regulations by governments and intergovernmental organisations affects all aspects of business, among them trade, investment, the
  environment, taxation, competition law and intellectual property. Members of ICC learn what really matters at an early stage - and win time to make the right
  decisions.
  
  
• ICC members are instrumental in drawing up rules that business uses every day to reduce costs and uncertainties - on arbitration, banking, commercial contracts. In the process they gain unique insights into the vital area of trade facilitation.
  
  
• ICC brings together the world's biggest, most influential and dynamic companies. In joining ICC, a company becomes part of the world's most prominent business organisation. ICC members gain influence at national level through ICC's global network of national committees and at the international level through ICC's privileged links with major intergovernmental organisations, such as the World Trade Organisation and the United Nations.
  
  
• ICC is a major source of information and experience in all matters affecting business operations. Members contribute their own depth of knowledge and experience to ICC statements on the issues that most concern them. They tap into the vast multidisciplinary knowledge of the 500 business experts who carry out the work of ICC's policy commissions.
  
  
• ICC is open to the private sector throughout the world. At the same time, it offers members many of the advantages of belonging to a prestigious association, such as the chance to forge business relationships at the highest level at exclusive ICC events.
  
  
• ICC offers practical benefits of membership such as substantial discounts on ICC publications and ICC seminars.

For more information, please contact:

ICC United Kingdom
12 Grosvenor Place
London SW1X 7HH

Tel: 020 7838 9363
Fax: 020 7235 5447
E-Mail: membership@iccorg.co.uk