Chamber of Commerce of both Basel
The Basel Chamber of Commerce is a regional trade association of industrial, trading and service companies in the half-cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft .
purpose
It is a private law association registered in the commercial register , which is primarily financed by membership fees and by collecting fees for the services it offers. The Chamber of Commerce represents the interests of its members in the Northwestern Switzerland region vis-à-vis political decision-makers, the administration and the public. In addition, it performs sovereign tasks such as issuing certificates of origin for the export of goods . For this area of responsibility it reports to the Federal Customs Directorate .
In the course of their political association work, participation in consultation procedures through statements should be mentioned. As a member of the Swiss Chambers' Arbitration Institution , the Basel Chamber of Commerce offers national and international arbitration proceedings .
The Basel Chamber of Commerce is a member of the association of the 18 cantonal and regional chambers of industry and commerce in Switzerland (SIHK) and of the umbrella organization of the Swiss economy ( economiesuisse ).
Members of the Chamber of Commerce are companies and individuals, but also associations, foundations, public corporations and institutions. In contrast to German chambers of commerce, membership in a chamber of commerce in Switzerland (and thus also in the Basel Chamber of Commerce) is basically voluntary.
Domicile
The Basel Chamber of Commerce is domiciled at its office in Basel , St. Jakobs-Strasse 25.
organization
The president is Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter (since June 2017). Together with the director and the board of directors, she represents the Chamber of Commerce externally. Martin Dätwyler has been the director since April 2018. The Executive Board consists of 26 members (as of November 2019). Seven specialist bodies (commissions) deal with specific economic issues, among other things. A total of 31 employees and three apprentices are employed in the office. Two of them are long-term interns.
Commissions
- Training committee
- Foreign Trade Commission
- Energy and Environment Commission
- Finance and Tax Commission
- Life Sciences Commission
- Spatial Planning Commission
- Transport Commission
history
The Basel Chamber of Commerce has existed in its current form since January 1st, 1997. It emerged from the merger of the Basel Chamber of Commerce (founded in 1876) and the Association of Basellandschaftlicher Enterprises (VBU; founded in 1919 as the Association of Baselland Industrialists, renamed VBU in 1991) .
swell
- Hochreiter, Walter: 125 years Chamber of Commerce Beider Basel: the last 50 years, Verlag Regionalkultur, 2001.
- Historical lexicon of Switzerland
- Annual report of the Basel Chamber of Commerce 1996.
- Ordinance on the certification of the non-preferential origin of goods (VUB-EVD) of April 9, 2008
- https://www.basellandschaftlichezeitung.ch/basel/baselbiet/elisabeth-schneider-schneiter-ich-habe-schon-immer-fuer-die-region-politisiert-131366817?cx_navSource=recommendationsTop
- https://bazonline.ch/basel/stadt/martin-daetwyler-ist-neuer-handelskammerdirektor/story/22230950
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter is the future President of the Basel Chamber of Commerce , hkbb.ch, accessed: October 27, 2018
- ↑ Board of Directors. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .