IN T E RV I E W A CLEAR COMMON GROUND TO RESOLVE DISPUTES FIDIs Professional Cooperation Guidelines Committee launched new Corporate Compliance & Ethics guidelines at the 2022 FIDI Conference in Cannes. FIDI Focus Editor Dominic Weaver spoke to three members of the committee that oversaw the guidelines development: Laura Busettini, VicePresident of FIDI Italy; Miguel Florez, LACMA and FIDI Latin America Past President; and Committee Chairman and FIDI UK President Nick Kerr FIDI FOCUS: Could you give a summary of what the PCGs are? Nick Kerr: The PCGs were launched as a standalone document in 2017. The professional cooperation rules, as it was originally, is not a new document. Its been around for many years you may recall the old FIDI yellow and blue manuals of many 68 FF306 June-August 22 pp68-69 PCG Interview.indd 68 years ago and as FAIM evolved over its first 10 years, many Affiliates and associations were calling for clarification of the professional relationships and behaviour during removal jobs between one firm and another. When we were asked by the FIDI Board to resurrect these rules and rewrite them, it gave us a tremendous opportunity to look at the whole international moving process from start to finish and put all the procedures, protocols, and ethical elements of the relationships together in a logical sequence. The PCGs were created with input from around 20 people from all over the world, WW W. F I D I FOC U S . OR G 07/06/2022 10:28