What is BIAC?

Founded in 1962, the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD, BIAC, brings together the advice and counsel of the business communities of the member countries of the OECD. BIAC participates in OECD committee work and research. It formulates public policy recommendations based on facts and analysis. The policy areas discussed and debated vary from trade liberalization and sustainable development to e-commerce taxation and biotechnology. 

BIAC is part of the institutional set-up of the OECD Guidelines together with the National Contact Points (NCPs), the Investment Committee and TUAC.

If there is a dispute about the applicability of the Guidelines, BIAC may ask the Investment Committee to consider an amendment to the text or a clarification of a particular clause.

For more information about BIAC’s view on the OECD Guidelines, see the "Guidelines Business Briefs", one-page publication created by the BIAC Secretariat. These Business Briefs provide you with information on the key aspects of the procedure and on the most pressing policy issues affected by the updated Guidelines from the business perspective. According to BIAC, “the Briefs also serve as a tool for influencing the evolving consensus on how to deal with complaints against companies under the Guidelines, bringing a clear business position to a debate heretofore monopolised by trade unions and NGOs”.

Vol. I, Number 1:    The OECD MNE Guidelines: An Overview 
                            July 2003

Vol. I, Number 2:    Guidelines: Confidentiality of Proceedings 
                            August 2003

Vol. I, Number 3:    Using the Guidelines to Support Business in the Fight Against Solicitation of Bribes
                            November 2003

Vol. II, Number 1:    How to handle a Procedure under the OECD Guidelines
                            April 2004

Vol. II, Number 2:    Investment Nexus and Parallel Legal and Administrative Proceedings
                            June 2004

Link to website:     www.biac.org