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EIC and its Austrian Member Federation VIBÖ are pleased to welcome you to the EIC Autumn Conference 2025 taking place in Vienna.","2025-10-09","2025-10-10","Vienna, Austria","eic-autumn-conference-2025",{"id":185,"width":186,"height":187,"title":188,"blurhash":189},"8350eca5-9543-4930-a22a-35f34b4e0521",2000,1333,"Conference Image Shutterstock 2267486413 Web Size","U9HBfEo~00JDPE?baKo#00rnadxE01R4s.s7",{"title":191,"topic":192,"summary":193,"date_start":194,"date_end":195,"location":196,"url":197,"cover":198},"EIC Spring Conference 2025","Decarbonisation of Infrastructure Construction - From Concept to Reality","Bienvenue à Bordeaux - WELCOME to Bordeaux.  EIC and its French Member Federation SEFI-FNTP are pleased to welcome you to the EIC Spring Conference 2025 in Bordeaux.","2025-04-24","2025-04-25","Bordeaux, France","eic-spring-conference-2025",{"id":199,"width":200,"height":201,"title":202,"blurhash":203},"ef4349f7-9e0e-4d22-a0d1-8c676d08b8cd",5990,3992,"Shutterstock 384939334","UfOWNmjaIWxut:bcofoe%4n$R+WVa%WCkCRj",{"title":205,"topic":206,"summary":207,"date_start":208,"date_end":209,"location":210,"url":211,"cover":212},"EIC Autumn Conference 2024","Collaborative Delivery Models","Velkommen til København - WELCOME TO Copenhagen EIC and its Danish Member Federation, DI Danish Construction (DI Byggeri), are pleased to welcome you to the EIC Autumn Conference 2024 in Copenhagen","2024-10-03","2024-10-04","Copenhagen, Denmark","eic-autumn-conference-2024",{"id":213,"width":214,"height":215,"title":216,"blurhash":217},"20a86ce1-f129-434b-86d3-96159a9ebac6",1406,1000,"Image","UuMQ6RMdNHx]_NV@s:ofg5S#odaf%goLayof",{"title":219,"topic":220,"summary":221,"date_start":222,"date_end":223,"location":224,"url":225,"cover":226},"Joint FIEC-EIC Spring Conference 2024",null,"Bienvenue à Bruxelles – WELCOME TO Brussels FIEC and EIC, in collaboration with its Belgian Member Federation, Embuild, are pleased to welcome you to the Joint FIEC-EIC Spring 2024 Conference in Brussels with a Workshop on: Building the change: Ho","2024-05-16","2024-05-17","Brussels, Belgium","joint-fiec-eic-spring-conference-2024",{"id":227,"width":186,"height":228,"title":229,"blurhash":230},"9c4996ff-5f12-4e64-b720-b3e752bfd382",1396,"Shutterstock 1946871412 Scstock Standardlizenz Websize.jpg","UsH2gRaJWrSjBHS6s,aeIuS6kDWBwsn#WEa#",{"title":232,"topic":220,"summary":233,"date_start":234,"date_end":235,"location":236,"url":237,"cover":238},"EIC Autumn Conference 2023","Welkom in Amsterdam– WELCOME TO Amsterdam EIC and its Dutch Member Federation, Netherlands Association of Maritime Business (NABU), are pleased to welcome you to the EIC Autumn Conference 2023 in Amsterdam with a Workshop on: The Global Energy Tran","2023-10-05","2023-10-06","Amsterdam, The Netherlands","eic-autumn-conference-2023",{"id":239,"width":50,"height":240,"title":241,"blurhash":242},"57e1a1ec-5e09-407b-8e1c-b5887752839d",1534,"Leitmotiv Shutterstock 2219032311 Web Besser.jpg","UYJt3U^*%1s.~9%1s+ofogbwM{RjS*WYaejb",{"page":244},{"id":245,"title":246,"article_date":247,"show_news":45,"show_industry":39,"tags":220,"body":248,"themes":435,"types":438,"downloads":439},1572,"EIC at FIDIC International Contract Users´ Conference 2020","2020-12-03T23:00:00",{"type":249,"content":250},"doc",[251,257,264,270,285,294,304,311,325,332,352,357,361,368,394,399,403,409,413,418,422,427,431],{"type":252,"content":253},"paragraph",[254],{"text":255,"type":256},"Experts from the EIC Working Group Contract Conditions shared their knowledge and expertise during this year‘s FIDIC International Contract Users´ Conference taking place from 01-02 December 2020 online. The annual conference in combination with pre-conference workshops offered in-depth guidance for practitioners on selecting, using and managing FIDIC contracts and provided best practice advice on leading major projects and resolving disputes. EIC was invited to participate in the conference with four Members of its Working Group Contract Conditions, including its Chairman, Mathias Fabich.","text",{"type":258,"attrs":259,"content":261},"heading",{"level":260},3,[262],{"text":263,"type":256},"KEY TOPICS",{"type":258,"attrs":265,"content":267},{"level":266},4,[268],{"text":269,"type":256},"FIDIC GOLDEN PRINCIPLES",{"type":252,"content":271},[272,274,283],{"text":273,"type":256},"Mathias Fabich and Stefan Ciufu-Hayward joined forces in the session titled „FIDIC Golden Principles – Turning Aspiration into Reality“ with representatives from FIDIC, the EBRD and EIC’s associated member firm, Pinsent Masons, to analyse how the market has adopted the ",{"text":275,"type":256,"marks":276},"FIDIC Golden Principles",[277],{"type":278,"attrs":279},"link",{"rel":280,"href":281,"class":220,"target":282},"noopener noreferrer nofollow","https:\u002F\u002Ffidic.org\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F_golden_principles_1_12.pdf","_blank",{"text":284,"type":256}," and what stakeholders can do individually and\u002For collectively to promote publicity and applicability of these highly useful guidelines. 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Experience based on Particular Conditions, prepared by public employers in selected Central Eastern European countries for the FIDIC 1999 “Red and Yellow Books”, showed that clients still were not sufficiently familiar with the FIDIC Golden Principles. EIC calls on all public financiers in the region, including the EU and the Multilateral Development Banks, to check whether the Particular Conditions are in compliance with the FIDIC Golden Principles.",{"type":258,"attrs":404,"content":405},{"level":287},[406],{"text":365,"type":256,"marks":407},[408],{"type":293},{"type":252,"content":410},[411],{"text":412,"type":256},"Please find a short summery of the presentation below this article.",{"type":258,"attrs":414,"content":415},{"level":260},[416],{"text":417,"type":256},"CONCLUSION",{"type":252,"content":419},[420],{"text":421,"type":256},"As usual, the FIDIC International Users’ Conference provided a dynamic platform for exchanging the latest news and experience in relation to the FIDIC standard forms of contract.",{"type":258,"attrs":423,"content":424},{"level":260},[425],{"text":426,"type":256},"FURTHER READING",{"type":252,"content":428},[429],{"text":430,"type":256},"EIC Contractor´s Guides and Publications >>",{"type":252,"content":432},[433],{"text":434,"type":256}," ",[436],{"themes_id":437},{"url":89,"title":87},[],[440],{"directus_files_id":441},{"id":442,"title":443},"6936cfba-44ea-41c2-ba6e-fadaee035cf2","Summery of Viliam Koprda´s Presentation: The FIDIC Golden Principles Case Studies",[445,459,469,480],{"title":446,"summary":447,"tags":448,"url":451,"article_date":452,"cover":453},"Strong EIC participation at FIDIC 2024 International Contract Users´ Conference","It was a great privilege for EIC to be invited to actively participate in three panels of the FIDIC 2024 International Contract Users´ Conference in London. 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