This concise summary, as adopted by the Executive Committee in Hong Kong 1997, really says it all.
	1	To enhance international cooperation within the profession of industrial property attorneys in private practice, promote the exchange of information and harmonise and facilitate business relations between members.
	2	To maintain the dignity of its members and the standards of the profession of industrial property attorneys in private practice on an international scale.
	3	To express opinion with regard to newly proposed international and national legislation, in so far as it is of general concern to the profession and to defend the interests of its members, in particular with respect to the maintenance and invigoration of the system of intellectual property protection and of the position of intellectual property attorneys in private practice.
	4	to promote training and continuing education of its members and others interested in Intellectual Poperty Protection by organising local and regional ad hoc programmes.
	Whatever the future developments in the law making process and in the profession itself (see also: Vision of the Profession in 2030), with these commitments FICPI will continue to play an important role for the benefit of its members in particular and bring value to intellectual property in a wider sense.
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