Promoting a Level Playing Field Resources

The following activities are coordinated by the Commercial Law and Practice, Competition, Corporate Responsibility and Anticorruption Committees.


Our commitments for 2018 are set out below.

COMMERCIAL LAW 

  • Continue to provide expert technical input into drafting Incoterms 2019.
  • Launch an ICC Incoterms ‘train the trainer’ programme, helpline and expert advisory group to support and work with a partner(s) to train SMEs and local law firms.
  • Strengthen cooperation with UNCITRAL (the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law) and UNIDROIT (the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law.
  • Strengthen links with the Queen Mary University-UNIDROIT Institute of Transnational Commercial Law to promote best practice.
  • Foster dialogue with the anti-corruption programme to promote ethical behaviour and ‘nudge’ economics.

COMPETITION 

  • Strengthen dialogue with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
  • Work with the ABC Committee to promote ethical business and wider use of behavioural economics as a means to improve compliance.
  • Continue to grow and develop the ICC Young Competition Network (YCN).
  • Support ICC’s global advocacy guide to promote recommendations on best practice.
  • Promote the ICC Proposal to the ICN for a One- Stop-Shop for Leniency Markers and contribute to the 2nd edition of the ICC Leniency Manual.
  • Support efforts to strengthen ICC participation in ICN initiatives.

CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY 

  • Promote the UN United Against Corruption campaign to British businesses worldwide.
  • Work with the National Contact Point service to promote best practice case studies.
  • Work with partners to champion the implementation of the Global Declaration Against Corruption.
  • Promote the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights and promote the UN Charter on Human Rights in supply chains.
  • Work with G20 partners to support efforts to combat government and official corruption.

MARKETING AND ADVERTISING 

  • Input into the review of the Consolidated ICC Code to ensure it remains relevant and future proof and fit for purpose.
  • Promote the ICC Code to British businesses worldwide - especially for those trading in emerging markets.
  • Convene a group of marketing and advertising experts to develop a comprehensive programme capitalising on the UK position as a global market leader.

TAXATION 

  • Support global efforts to promote cooperative compliance.
  • Promote ICC Charter of Fiscal Rights for International investors, OECD Tax Certainty Report.
  • Support BEPS Implementation.
  • Promote dispute resolution as a tool to solve tax disputes.
  • Strengthen UK input into key international organisations including the United Nations Committee of Tax Experts and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).