Eurochambres-Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry

Organisation Type: 
EU Institutions
Theme: 
Social / Economic Development

The Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry represents 44 national associations of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, thus forming a European network of 2000 regional and local Chambers with over 18 million member enterprises in Europe. Its mission is to represent, serve and promote European Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

EuroChambres is also involved in activities focused on the Mediterranean region. These programmes are generally speaking financially supported by the European Commission. The ArchiMedes Programme for instance was a technical assistance programme for Chambers of Commerce in the Southern Mediterranean. The programme has been implemented between February 1999 and June 2001.

A current project in the Euro-Mediterranean Region is the Egyptian Business Institutional Support (EBIS) Project, which aims at supporting Egyptian business representative organizations (BROs) through training and capacity building initiatives provided by the European Chamber network.

The Turkish Chamber Development Programme (TCDP) has finished its second phase by July 2005. According to the information provided on the Eurochambres website, no third phase is foreseen.