ITALY Lorenzo de Martinis, Silvia Picchetti and Gaetano Iorio Fiorelli A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation Arbitration in Italy continues to be governed by articles 806 to 840 of the Italian Code of Civil Procedure (ICCP), which has been significantly impacted and amended by the reform enacted with Law No. 80/2005 and Legislative Decree No. 50/2005.[1] Specifically, domestic and international arbitration are governed by articles 806 to 832 ICCP, while the enforcement of foreign awards…
UNITED KINGDOM Kate Corby, Judith Mulholland and Katia Contos A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation International arbitration in…
HUNGARY Artúr Tamási, Daniella Karacs and Clio Mordivoglia A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation Arbitration continues to be…
SPAIN Enrique Silvente and Isabel Pasquau A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Approval of Royal Decree-Law 17/2019, dated 22 November, which adopts urgent measures for the necessary adaptation of remuneration parameters affecting the electricity system and addresses the process to cease thermal generation plant businesses. By means of the aforementioned Royal Decree-Law, Spain aims to settle the investment arbitrations that have already been brought before ICSID by several energy companies, as well as to avoid the…
GERMANY Ragnar Harbst, Jürgen Mark A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation International arbitration in Germany continues to be…
SWEDEN Magnus Stålmarker A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation Sweden has a long tradition of arbitration and as…
FRANCE Eric Borysewicz and Karim Boulmelh A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation A new Decree no. 2019-1089 on the Certification of Online Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration services, dated 25 October 2019 (“Decree”),[1] has been issued and aims at implementing article 4 of the Act on Programming and Reforming of the Justice (“Statute”).[2] Article 4 offers online platforms supplying conciliation, mediation and arbitration services the possibility to obtain a certification by a specific organism. Under the…
CZECH REPUBLIC Martin Hrodek and Martina Závodná A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation International arbitration in the Czech…
POLAND Aleksandra Żanowska, and Łukasz Zbyszyński A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation The Act of 17 November 1964…
KYRGYZSTAN Alexander Korobeinikov and Alissa Inshakova A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation International arbitration in Kyrgyzstan continues to be governed by the Law on Arbitration Courts (“Law”), as enacted on 30 July 2002, and to which no amendments have been made since 2004. The Law is mostly based on the UNCITRAL Model Law. Provisions of the Law were challenged several times based on arguments that the Law and the main principles of arbitration proceedings contradicted…