International Cocoa Organization

Cultivation of cocoa beans in 2005 as a percentage of the main producer Ivory Coast (= 1,286,330 tons).

Ivory Coast

10 percent of Ivory Coast's production

1 percent of Ivory Coast production

The International Cocoa Organization , ICCO for short (from the English International Cocoa Organization ), is an international organization of cocoa producing and importing countries based in London . It was founded in 1973 to implement the first International Cocoa Agreement negotiated in Geneva . The sixth International Cocoa Agreement was negotiated in 2001, applied provisionally since October 1, 2003, and finally entered into force on November 2, 2005. The seventh agreement, known as the International Cocoa Agreement, 2010, is currently in force.

Members

The following countries are members of the International Cocoa Agreement 2010 (as of June 2016):

Exporting members

(As of 2016)

•  Brazil
•  Costa Rica
•  Dominican Republic
•  Ecuador
•  Ivory Coast
•  Gabon
•  Ghana
•  Guinea
•  Indonesia
•  Cameroon
•  Democratic Republic of Congo
•  Liberia
•  Madagascar
•  Malaysia
•  Nicaragua
•  Papua New Guinea
•  Peru
•  Sierra Leone
•  Togo
•  Trinidad and Tobago
•  Venezuela

Import members

•  European Union (according to Art. 4 of the Cocoa Convention)
•  Russia
•  Switzerland

Web links

• International Cocoa Organization. In: Official website of the ICCO. Retrieved July 1, 2011 . 
• 2001 International Cocoa Agreement , accessed July 1, 2011. Official Journal No. L 342 of 17/12/2002 pp. 2–28
• 44. International Cocoa Agreement, 2001. In: UNTC. March 1, 2001, accessed on July 1, 2011 (Contract details of the Depositary of the International Cocoa Agreement). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ International Cocoa Agreement, 2010 , full version in English
2. ↑ list of members on icco.org; accessed on August 28, 2016