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Benefits
if ICC membership for international law firms and company legal
department
Information
The ICC is a key source of information on trade and export-related
matters:
- Letters of credit: Developed Uniformation Customers and Practice
fo Documentary credits, procedural rules applied by banks throughout
the world. The ICC is the world's top source of information for
this vital trade tool.
- ICC Incoterms: Virtually all international sales of goods use
ICC Incoterms, standard definitions of transport terms such as FOB,
CIF and Ex Works.
- International arbitration: The ICC International Court of Arbitration
is the world's largest institutional forum for international arbitration,
handing over 300 cases per year with the total value in dispute
in dispute in excess of $20 billion. ICC symposia and conferences
on arbitration bring together the world's top experts.
- Model contracts: The ICC model international contracts for sales
of goods, agency distributorship and franchising agreement provide
a compromise of interests between manufacturers and agents, distributors
and franchisees, and are ready to be used directly by the parties
or as a basis for negotiation.
- Standard rules: The ICC has issued internationally recognised
standard rules for bank guarantees, collections, and marketing and
advertising practices.
Professional training and business contacts
The ICC provides an excellent forum for meeting specialists in your
field, and for developing your professional skills in work projects:
- ICC Commissions : ICC Commissions are international committees
composed of top business people, providing an unparalleled opportunity
for obtaining information directly from specialists in crucial areas
of legislation and regulation. The work of most Commissions is of
interest to corresponding specialists in the legal profession.
Because the Commissions devote much of their time to critical examination
of legislative proposals, they muster considerable legal expertise
in many different fields.
The commissions cover international arbitration, banking, competition
law, electronic commerce, energy, environment, financial services,
international commercial practice, intellectual property, marketing,
IT, taxation, telecommunications, trade and investment policy, and
transport.
Working parties: The commissions form Working Parties to deal with
specific issues in their fields , which provide a valuable learning
experience for participants and can be used by firms as part of
their personnel development plans . In an ICC Working Party , one
of your specialists participates in a small international group
to accomplish a particular legal or policy objectives insights and
information from an international cross section of colleagues.
ICC institute for international business law and practice: This
ICC body develops an annual programme of international legal seminars
on such topics as arbitration , banking and financial law, drafting
of international contracts , films law , and law governing the sale
of works of art. ICC commission on international commercial practice
: This commission works on ICC incoterms , Model contracts for international
sales, agency, distribution and franchising , Retention and transfer
of title , and other international legal and trade topics.
Lobbying and policy development
The ICC is one of the world's foremost business lobbying institution
. By associating your company 's or your clients legislative efforts
with the ICC 's you gain a powerful ally and the added weight of
an established international body;
- The ICC has official consultative status with the united nations
and UN specialised agencies dealing with economic, financial and
trade issues , and has regular meetings with top UN officials on
trade and economic issues
- ICC representatives maintain close contracts with the world trade
organisation
- The ICC briefs the host government leader at the annual G8 Summit
Meetings on the most pressing concerns of the global business community
- The ICC prepares position statements for consideration by the
European Commission and the European parliament
ICC Publishing house issues many titles of direct interest to legal
profession. All current ICC publications are available from ICC
United Kingdom.
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