The International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), Abidjan/Ivory Coast, will in future have its Advisory Committee chaired by Germany. The International Cocoa Council elected Beate Weiskopf, Managing Director of the German Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa, as its new chair. Beate Weiskopf previously held the vice chairmanship of the committee. The declared aim of the two-year term of office, which is now beginning, is to help establish the Advisory Committee as an efficient advisory body for the International Cocoa Council.