ICC银行技术与惯例委员会以71票赞成0票反对，一致通过了其广受赞誉的出版物——审核跟单信用证项下单据的国际标准银行实务(ISBP)最新修订版。投票是2007年4月26日在新加坡召开的委员会会议中举行的。

ISBP 是一个供单据审核员在审核跟单信用证项下提交的单据时使用的审查项目（细节）清单。ISBP于2002年首次通过，作为国际商会（ICC）制定的应用广泛的关于跟单信用证的规则——跟单信用证统一惯例（UCP）的必不可少的补充，得到了（各界）广泛的接纳。

通过详细规定跟单信用证操作中的细节——比如如何签发海运提单，保险单据的关键特征，如何处理拼写和打印错误等，ISBP填补了概括性的UCP规则与信用证使用者日常操作之间的差距。

02版的ISBP 作为UCP 500的补充，在那时是广为人知的ICC规则，但UCP在2006年进行了修改，对ISBP进行更新，以便与新版的UCP（现在叫做UCP 600）配套，就显得很有必要了。UCP的修订本将在2007年7月1日生效。

2007年版本的ISBP保留了许多旧版的规定，但也作了一些调整。修改包括：

1删除了旧版ISBP中与UCP 600不相匹配的段落。

2在语法、标点等方面作了一定的技术性调整。

3修订了在新版UCP中不再有效的部分。

ICC 建议在UCP 600生效时，从业者手头有本新版的ISBP。ISBP最终修订版，ICC出版物681号将在几周后发布。

Banking Commission approves document on international standard banking practice

Singapore, 27 April 2007

By a unanimous vote of 71-0, the ICC Commission on Banking Technique and Practice approved an updated version of its widely acclaimed publication, International Standard Banking Practice for the Examination of Documents under Documentary Credits (ISBP). The voting took place at the commission’s meeting in Singapore yesterday.

The ISBP is a checklist of items document examiners need to check for in their review of documents presented under letters of credit.

First approved in 2002, the ISBP was welcomed as a crucial supplement to Uniform Customs and Practices (UCP), ICC’s universally-used rules on documentary credits. By detailing the specifics of documentary credit operations – such as how to sign bills of lading, the key features of insurance documents and how to handle misspellings or typing errors – the ISBP filled a gap between the general rules of the UCP and the daily job of the letter of credit practitioner.

The 2002 version of the ISBP supplemented UCP 500, as the ICC rules were known at that time. But when the UCP was revised in 2006, it became necessary to update the ISBP to align it with the new rules, now called UCP 600. The revised UCP will enter into force on 1 July 2007.

Though much of the ISBP remains unchanged, certain adjustments have been made in the 2007 version. Amendments include:

removing paragraphs of the former ISBP that have now been incorporated into UCP 600;

making certain technical adjustments in grammar, punctuation, etc.; and

revising sections of the ISBP that were no longer valid in the new UCP.

ICC advises practitioners to have the updated ISBP at hand when UCP 600 comes into effect.

The final version of the revised ISBP, ICC Publication 681, is scheduled for release in the next several weeks.