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ICC Institute masterclass for arbitrators proves hit with legal practitioners
International commercial arbitration is a flexible, cost-efficient and quick method for resolving disputes that has flourished in recent years with the emergence of a global economy. Yet specific advanced-level training for arbitrators on the subject remains limited and time consuming.
 

ICC provides business views on UN transport treaty
The International Chamber of Commerce has issued a statement on a United Nations treaty that will provide uniformity for the international carriage of goods.
The draft Convention on the International Carriage of Goods was adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 2008 and will be signed at a ceremony in Rotterdam in September 2009. The treaty will be informally known as the “Rotterdam Rules.”
This treaty is an attempt to provide harmonization for the law governing the transport of goods by sea, which is presently subject to a number of different liability regimes.
 

Trade and investment as environment protectors

Writing in the Polish Warsaw Business Journal, on the occasion of the UNFCCC in Poznan, ICC Secretary General Guy Sebban urged negotiators to bear in mind the inextricable link between climate change and trade and investment. Mr Sebban also highlighted the need for strong protection of intellectual property rights to ensure private sector investment in new technologies.

ICC calls on G8 to avoid economic nationalism
”The G8 summit should resist pressures to resort to economic nationalism and should further strengthen international cooperation to meet the challenges posed by the global recession, climate change and product counterfeiting, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)” urged Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. ”We stressed to the prime minister the importance of resisting protectionist pressures, which would only lead to a deeper and longer world recession,” ICC Honorary Chairman Marcus Wallenberg said following the private session.