Definition of Chamber of Commerce

The camera of Commerceit is an organization made up of the owners of shops or businesses and companies, whose activity converges on a specific geographic region and whose objective is then to safeguard the interests that affect its heading. With the exceptions of the case, we could say that the chamber of commerce is equivalent to the typical workers' unions that protect the interests and rights of their members.

The directors that make up the aforementioned chamber are elected directly by the members of the organization, that is, they are the owners of businesses and companies who decide by the authorities who will be in charge of defending their interests when necessary. It should be noted that generally the elected authorities are also merchants or businessmen who have a long trajectory in the sector in question and therefore are highly suitable to carry out the task.

This type of entity is widespread worldwide and also as it happens with other organisms, both its action and functioning, are regulated by a rule specific.

Although there are many activities that they carry out, among the most outstanding they pursue are: promotion of clean trade in their geographical location; they fight before him government that corresponds to the achievement of benefits with regard to the regulation of the activity; they work in favor of the free competence; provide legal advice; gather information and statistics inherent to their industry to help their members maximize performance of their work and hold special seminars and conferences on some topics of interest related to their occupation.

Now doing a little history about the concept that concerns us, it has been verified from different data found, that the origin of this type of organization dates back to before Christ, in Middle East, for example, have been registered organizations commercials that had a sense similar to today's chambers of commerce.
Meanwhile, formally, the first to appear did so towards the end of the 16th century in Europe, more precisely in places like France, Marseille and Belgium, among other.