International Chamber of Commerce

EU Legislative Interests

The EU policy areas which are of main relevance to our work are the following: Tax, Customs, Environment, Trade and IP. Below you can find the detailed list of proposals and policies per policy area: TAX: 1. Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT) 2. VAT in the Digital Age package 3. Council Directive establishing a Head Office Tax system for micro, small and medium sized enterprises 4. Council Directive (EU) 2022/2523 of 14 December 2022 on ensuring a global minimum level of taxation for multinational enterprise groups and large-scale domestic groups in the Union 5. Council Directive on transfer pricing CUSTOMS: 6. EU Customs Reform proposals put forward in May 2023 ENVIRONMENT: 7. EU Green Deal - Fit for 55 package 8. Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism TRADE: 9. Trade policy developments in relation to the 2021 Communication from the from the European Commission, Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and social committee and the Committee of the Regions "Trade Policy Review - An Open, Sustainable and Assertive Trade Policy" IP: 10. Proposals for a Regulation on Supplementary Protection Certificates 11. Proposal for a Regulation on Compulsory Licensing of Patents 12. Proposal for a Regulation on Standard Essential Patents DIGITAL: 13. EU AI Act 14. Proposal for a Regulation of the EU Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2019/881 as regards managed security service (EU Cybersecurity Act) 15. Digital Services Act (DSA) MARKETING: 16. European Commission proposal - Green Claims Directive

Communication Activities

The activities undertaken in the EU policies area above are the following: - Submission of responses to EU Public Consultations - Participation in the EU Platform for Tax Good Governance and EU VAT Experts Group (until Summer 2022) - Informative sessions for our members where the content of policies proposals was explained and discussed - Statements and public responses to EU proposals such as the one on the Green Claims Directive (https://iccwbo.org/news-publications/policies-reports/icc-response-to-european-commissions-green-claims-directive/) and the one on the implementation of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (https://iccwbo.org/news-publications/policies-reports/icc-recommendations-to-the-european-commission-on-the-implementation-of-the-carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism/) - Discussion of EU policy proposals at conference where EU Commission officers were invited as speakers (https://iccwbo.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/06/Programme-Tokyo-2023-Competition-Conference.pdf)

Interests Represented

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Organisation Members

ICC is headquartered in Paris (France) but it comprises a network of 89 National Committees around the world. Many of them are also established within Chambers of Commerce. More information can be found at this link: https://iccwbo.org/national-committees/