DIS UNCITRAL UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules administered by DIS (2012)
DIS UNCITRAL
UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules administered by DIS (2012)
Founded in 1992, the German Institution of Arbitration (Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit e.V., DIS) promotes arbitration and provides a uniform service for all arbitration-related matters across Germany. Since that time, the DIS has provided the DIS Arbitration Rules for the resolution of disputes. The current DIS Arbitration Rules entered into force in 1998 and the DIS has gained great experience in the administration of national and international arbitral proceedings alike. In addition, the DIS promotes academic research on arbitration and alternative dispute resolution and provides information and advice on all aspects of arbitration to businesses, the legal profession, government bodies and arbitration organizations abroad.
The Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations by Resolution No. 31/98 on December 15, 1976, a revised version of which was adopted by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on June 25, 2010 (UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules) are a comprehensive, internationally accepted set of arbitration rules which parties may adopt for the resolution of disputes arising under their contract. The UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, however, essentially provide for a noninstitutional form of arbitration. Yet in practice, UNCITRAL encourages arbitral institutions and other interested bodies to offer administrative services and to act as appointing authority in order to facilitate arbitral proceedings conducted under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.1
With the following UNCITRAL-Arbitration Rules administered by the DIS, the DIS provides a set of rules which allows the parties to benefit fully from the advantages of institutional arbitration whilst applying the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. Amendments to the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules were only made to allow for the administration of the arbitral proceedings by the DIS. As a result, parties and legal counsel who have gained familiarity with and confidence in the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules may rely on the uniform and full application of those rules and at the same time enjoy the benefits of arbitral proceedings under the auspices of an experienced arbitral institution.
Cologne, May 1, 2012
1Cf. “Recommendations to assist arbitral institutions and other interested bodies with regard to arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules”, Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its fifteenth session (New York, 26 July — 6 August 1982), Official Records of the General Assembly, thirty-seventh session, Supplement No. 1 (A/37/17) (19 August 1982).
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