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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…

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…

BELGIUM Koen De Winter, Michaël De Vroey and Margo Allaerts A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation Domestic and international arbitration in Belgium continues to be governed by Part VI of the Judicial Code (articles 1676-1722), which is largely based on the UNCITRAL Model Law. This legislation entered into force on 1 September 2013 and was amended by the Act of 25 December 2016. Belgian arbitration legislation is mostly of a supplemental nature, allowing parties to…

RUSSIA Irinia Varyushina A. LEGISLATION AND RULES A.1 Legislation International arbitration in Russia continues to be governed by Law on International Commercial Arbitration[1]. Certain issues concerning international commercial arbitration such as requirements to arbitral institutions for administering disputes in Russia, resolving corporate disputes, are governed by the Law on Arbitration in Russia (“Law on Domestic Arbitration.”)[2] In March 2019 certain important changes to the Law on Domestic Arbitration, which also apply to international commercial arbitration…