This legal Panel is the first of its kind on corporate complicity. It will help to clarify the practical content and limits of complicity - an area of uncertainty and confusion. The Panel will develop legal principles to explain when companies should be held liable in law for complicity in international crimes and, where the acts are not sufficient to attract legal liability, whether companies should nevertheless be considered responsible as a matter of international public policy.

The Panel will establish clear legal guidelines for businesses, NGOs, governments and the United Nations, thereby enabling them to identify when businesses have crossed the line and have become participants in international crimes.

For more information on the process see the June 2006 Update.