(superseded) International Chamber ofCommerce, Rules of Conciliation andArbitration - (Old) Conciliation and

amended Arbitration Rules in force asfrom January 1, 1988 until December

31, 1997

International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

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(superseded) International Chamber of Commerce, Rules of Conciliation andArbitration(Old) Conciliation and amended Arbitration Rules in force as from January1, 1988 until December 31, 1997 1Standard ICC Arbitration Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Rules of Optional Conciliation 1

Preamble 1[Preamble] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Article 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Article 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Article 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Article 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Article 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Article 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Article 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Article 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Article 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Article 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Rules of Arbitration 4Article 1 - International Court Of Arbitration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Article 2 - The Arbitral Tribunal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Article 3 - Request for Arbitration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Article 4 - Answer to the Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Article 5 - Counter-claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Article 6 - Pleadings and Written Statements, Notifications or Communications 8Article 7 - Absence of Agreement to Arbitrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Article 8 - Effect of the Agreement to Arbitrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Article 9 - Advance to Cover Costs of Arbitration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Article 10 - Transmission Of the File to the Arbitrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Article 11 - Rules Governing the Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Article 12 - Place Of Arbitration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Article 13 - Terms of Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Article 14 - The Arbitral Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Article 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Article 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Article 17 - Award by Consent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Article 18 - Time-limit for Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Article 19 - Award by Three Arbitrators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Article 20 - Decision as to Costs of Arbitration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Article 21 - Scrutiny of Award by the Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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Article 22 - Making of Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Article 23 - Notification of Award to Parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Article 24 - Finality and Enforceability Of Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Article 25 - Deposit Of Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Article 26 - General Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Appendix I - Statutes of the International Court of Arbitration 14Article 1 - Appointment Of Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Article 2 - Composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Article 3 - Function and Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Article 4 - Deliberations and Quorum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Appendix II - Internal Rules of the International Court of Arbitration 15Role of the international Court of Arbitration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Confidential Character of the Work of the international Court Of Arbitration . . 16Participation of Members Of the international Court of Arbitration in ICC Arbi-

tration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Relations between the Members of the Court and the ICC National Committees 17Committee of the Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Absence Of an Arbitration Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Joinder of Claims in Arbitration Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Advances to Cover Costs of Arbitration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Arbitral awards: form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Arbitrators' fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Appendix III - Schedule of Conciliation and Arbitration Costs 191. Costs of conciliation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192. Costs of arbitration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193. Advance on administration expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204. Appointment of arbitrators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205. Scales of administrative expenses and of arbitrator's fees . . . . . . . . . 20

Metadata 22SiSU Metadata, document information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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(superseded) International Chamber of Commerce, Rules of Conciliation and Arbitration - (Old)Conciliation and amended Arbitration Rules in force as from January 1, 1988 until December 31, 1997

(superseded) International Chamber of Commerce, Rules of 1Conciliation and Arbitration(Old) Conciliation and amended Arbitration Rules in force as fromJanuary 1, 1988 until December 31, 1997

Standard ICC Arbitration Clause 2

The ICC recommends that all parties wishing to make reference to ICC arbitration in 3their contracts use the following standard clause:

English 4

All disputes arising in connection with the present contract shall be finally set- 5tled under the Rules of Conciliation and Arbitration of the International Chamberof Commerce by one or more arbitrators appointed in accordance with the saidRules.

Parties are reminded that it may be desirable for them to stipulate in the arbitration 6clause itself the law governing the contract, the number of arbitrators and the place andlanguage of the arbitration. The parties' free choice of the law governing the contractand of the place and language of the arbitration is not limited by the ICC Rules ofArbitration.

Attention is called to the fact that the laws of certain countries require that parties to 7contracts expressly accept arbitration clauses, sometimes in a precise and particularmanner.

Rules of Optional Conciliation 8

Preamble 9

[Preamble]

Settlement is a desirable solution for business disputes of an international charac- 10ter.

The International Chamber of Commerce therefore sets out these Rules of Optional 11Conciliation in order to facilitate the amicable settlement of such disputes.

Article 1 12

All business disputes of an international character may be submitted to conciliation by 13a sole conciliator appointed by the International Chamber of Commerce.

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Article 2 14

The party requesting conciliation shall apply to the Secretariat of the International Court 15of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce setting out succinctly the pur-pose of the request and accompanying it with the fee required to open the file, as setout in Appendix III hereto.

Article 3 16

The Secretariat of the International Court of Arbitration shall, as soon as possible, inform 17the other party of the request for conciliation. That party will be given a period of 15days to inform the Secretariat whether it agrees or declines to participate in the attemptto conciliate.

If the other party agrees to participate in the attempt to conciliate it shall so inform the 18Secretariat within such period.

In the absence of any reply within such period or in the case of a negative reply the 19request for conciliation shall be deemed to have been declined. The Secretariat shall,as soon as possible, so inform the party which had requested conciliation.

Article 4 20

Upon receipt of an agreement to attempt conciliation, the Secretary General of the 21International Court of Arbitration shall appoint a conciliator as soon as possible. Theconciliator shall in form the parties of h is appointment and set a time-limit for the partiesto present their respective arguments to him.

Article 5 22

The conciliator shall conduct the conciliation process as he thin