| Official name |
International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber
of Commerce |
| Address |
38, Cours Albert Ier |
| City |
Paris |
| Country |
France |
| Telephone |
(33) 1 49 53 28 28 |
| Fax |
(33) 1 49 53 29 33 |
| URL |
http://www.iccwbo.org/index_court.asp |
| Email |
arb@iccwbo.org |
| Presentation |
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) was founded in
1919 with an overriding aim that remains unchanged: to serve world
business by promoting trade and investment, open markets for goods
and services, and the free flow of capital. To reach this goal, it
offers a vast range of services, including its International Court
of Arbitration, established in 1923. While most arbitration
institutions are regional or national in scope, the ICC Court is
truly international. Thus, the dispute resolution mechanisms
developed by ICC have been conceived specifically for business
disputes in an international context. Therefore, its Court has
administered well over 12 000 international arbitration cases
involving parties and arbitrators from more than 170 countries and
territories.
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| Functions |
As the ICC arbitration body, the Court ensures the application
of its Rules, namely: the Rules of Arbitration of the ICC, the ICC
ADR, the ICC's Rules for Expertise, and the ICC rules for
Documentary Instrument Dispute Resolution Expertise (DOCDEX). Its
members do not decide the matters submitted to ICC arbitration -
this is the task of the arbitrators appointed under the ICC Rules.
The Court oversees the ICC arbitration process and, among other
things, is responsible for: appointing arbitrators; confirming, as
the case may be, arbitrators nominated by the parties; deciding
upon challenges of arbitrators; scrutinizing and approving all
arbitral awards; and fixing the arbitrators' fees.
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| Services |
Apart from its support to arbitral proceedings, the ICC
publishes information, such as ICC International Court of
Arbitration Bulletin and various books on international commercial
arbitration distributed by ICC Publishing. More over, electronic
publication services are available on its web site: the arbitration
costs calculator, and the ICC award search function. Finally, it
organises seminars and conferences through its Institute of World
Business Law, which pursues as its main objectives research and
training and the dissemination of information among practitioners
and scholars in the field of international business law, including,
of course, international arbitration.
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