International office of the exposures

The International office of the exposures is the organization which recognizes the universal character of the exposures at the time of its general meetings.

Role

The International office of the Exposures was born from the will of its Member States to engage in the cultural, economic mission and policy of these single events for their scale, their force of innovation and their capacity of attraction which are the World Fairs.

History

The organization was created under the terms of a convention signed with Paris on November 22nd 1928 in order to supervise and regulate the World Fairs and International.

Since the beginning of its lawful activity in 1931, the BIE recorded more than 40 Expos which attracted more than 500 million visitors. The BIE currently counts 140 Member States.

The exposures are not recent invention. From time immemorial of significant markets organized themselves in the cities whose position of crossroads constituted an attraction and ensured prosperity. The crowd come sometimes from fort far visited these markets, remained on the spot, exchanged very diverse products. It resulted from them a confrontation from the knowledge to make and ideas of each one.

Thus, with the favor of these meetings a mutual comprehension of most useful developed and was outlined a bringing together between mentalities often very opposite the people frequently established under other climates. Lyon, Frankfurt and Leipzig in particular saw flowing commercial and customers of all Europe to the Middle Ages.

The commercial negociations thus have, in remote times, traced the way of the international exhibitions which we know today who have a role of teaching and contribute in the happiest way to a better comprehension between the people.

It is in London that the first “universal and international” exposure to the direction took place where currently hear we it.

London, metropolis of a vast empire, first industrial power enriched by prosperity by the time victorienne and free trade, knew in 1851 a bright success.

All the nations were invited to contribute and a summary of the whole of the human production was presented there. Paris took over and organized brilliant exposures into 1867,1878,1889 and 1900. Other large cities wanted on their side to accommodate craftsmen and manufacturers of the whole world and one will mention among the most succeeded the international exhibitions which took place in Vienna, in Amsterdam, in Brussels, in Barcelona, in Saint-Louis, in Turin and Philadelphia.

Inevitably these demonstrations caused many conflicts of interest and often revealed a regrettable disorder in their organization. This anarchy caused with the governments of serious difficulties and those felt the need to seek a regulation to avoid, on the one hand, the proliferation of these demonstrations and, on the other hand, to bring guarantees to the participants. As time developed the taste and the practice of the exposures, the experiment revealed that it was important to confront the points of view and to seek to solve a certain number of problems common to each one of them. An international agreement seemed necessary. Paris claimed it since 1907. In 1912 the German Government took the initiative to convene the interested governments in order to seek the bases of an agreement.

The governments hastened to answer and expressed the desire to lay down rules to improve, to cleanse the relationship between organizers and participants, inviting government and official or private exhibitors.

It is the Diplomatic Conference of Berlin which provided the foundations of an international convention intended to govern the international exhibitions, but the diplomatic act which resulted from it could not be ratified because of the war of 1914.

As of 1920 the governments took again the question, but it is only in 1928 qu' a new conference could gather in Paris the delegates of thirty and one country who signed the governing on November 22nd the first convention in a positive way, the organization of the international exhibitions.

The International convention of 1928 put order in the field of the exposures by regulating their frequency and by defining the rights and obligations of the exhibitors and the organizers. To take care of the application of this treaty it created the International office of the Exposures.

Thereafter two protocols, one in 1948 and the other in 1966, were to amend Convention in the essential field of the frequency of the exposures.

To take account of a jurisprudence resulting forty years of existence of the International office of the Exposures and also because of economic situation new (intensification of the rate/rhythm of progress, reduction of the deadlines to cross the distances, entered on the world scene of new countries) a major revision of Convention of 1928 was essential.

This revision was undertaken in 1965 and leads to the signature of the protocol of November 30th, 1972, come into effect on June 9th, 1980, which currently governs the organization of the international exhibitions.

The address of the seat is located at Paris, France, with the 34 Avenue of Iéna.

Objectives

" An Exposure is a demonstration which, whatever its denomination, has a principal goal of teaching for the public, making an inventory of the means available to the man to satisfy the needs for a civilization and emphasizing in one or more branches of the human activity made progress or the prospects for avenir" (Convention of Paris 1928)

See too

External bonds

Official site
Photographs of the assembly of the BIE on December 19th, 2006 on the expo 2012 and 2015

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