DIS AdjR DIS Adjudication Rules (2010)
DIS AdjR
DIS Adjudication Rules (2010)
6.1 As soon as the DAB is constituted, the parties shall ensure that each adjudicator is provided with a complete text of the Main Contract, as well as further information about the project, where applicable. Each adjudicator shall familiarize himself therewith. The parties and the adjudicators shall provide each other with their respectively binding contact details (including email addresses) within a week after the constitution of the DAB.
6.2 Without undue delay after fulfillment of the requirements set out in subsection 1, the adjudicators and the parties shall agree on a meeting to enable the adjudicators to obtain detailed knowledge of the project and to determine issues relevant for the adjudicators’ activity.
6.3 The parties shall regularly provide, unless agreed otherwise, on a monthly basis each adjudicator with written reports on the progress of the project. The adjudicators may request additional information with respect to the project-accompanying adjudication from the parties at any time.
6.4 Correspondence between the adjudicators and the parties shall be conveyed to each adjudicator and each party and may be conducted by email.
6.5 The adjudicators and the parties shall agree on regular meetings; these meetings shall be held at the site or sites of the project execution, if possible. Unless agreed otherwise or is necessary, these regular meetings shall take place every six months. The parties shall ensure that adequate rooms for these meetings are available.
6.6 The chairman of the DAB shall jointly agree on a meeting agenda with all participants in advance of the meeting and shall send the agenda to the participants in due time prior to the meeting.
6.7 At the meetings, the parties shall inform the adjudicators about the progress of the project and about existing differences and problems, as the case may be. If desired by one of the parties or upon its own initiative, the DAB may work towards an amicable settlement of differences between the parties. In the event of subsequent dispute-related adjudication proceedings, the DAB is not bound by any preliminary view which it may have expressed in order to settle differences.
6.8 The chairman of the DAB chairs the meetings and determines the keeper of the record. The chairman shall ensure the dispatch of the record to the parties and to the other adjudicators within one week after the meeting. Each adjudicator and each party may raise objections to points contained in the record within one week after receipt thereof. Otherwise, the content of the record is deemed to provide a proper account of the meeting.
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