Center of Arbitration and Mediation at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation

The Center’s Duties and Aims

• promoting arbitration and mediation procedures in every way it can, including holding conferences and workshops, publishing materials of court practice, and compiling and disseminating informational and advertising materials;
• arranging and holding arrangements to improve and develop activities of the CCI’s arbitration institutions and Panel of Mediators and cooperation among them in the field of international arbitration, arbitration, mediation, and the Association of Average Adjusters, and to help arbitrators to upgrade their skills;
• studying and summarizing  experience in practical work and dispute resolution by foreign arbitration centers and arbitration courts in CIS member countries, and also organization and maintenance of activities on summarizing and publishing practical dispute settlement cases of the arbitration institutions of the CCI;
• handling of legal proceedings documents connected with disputes brought to the ICAC, MAC, the Court of Arbitration for Resolution of Economic Disputes, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the Panel of Mediators, and the Association of Average Adjusters operating at the CCI, each under its own Rules, regulations, guidance and instructions, using customized computer software and hardware;
• arranging for meetings of panels of arbitrators and mediators to discuss selected cases, coordination of hearing dates, replacing of arbitrators, reporters, and mediators, where required by respective rules of procedure, and  planning of schedules of hearings. Assistance to ad hoc arbitration;
• drawing up development plans and holding events aiming to improve the performance of the Chamber’s arbitration institutions and Panel of Mediators, and to adopt new organizational and technological methods for use in hearings, including those based on specialized hardware and software;
• undertaking efforts to enhance the image of the Chamber’s arbitration institutions and the Panel of Mediators in the business community, including, holding conferences and workshops devoted to international commercial and maritime arbitration, arbitration and mediation;
• analyzing and reviewing practices of dispute resolution, compiling and disseminating in the media, including the Internet, informational, analytical, statistical, and advertising materials on the Chamber’s arbitration institutions and Panel of Mediators;
• interaction with the media on arbitration and mediation;
• working out and perfectioning of the Rules of Procedure and also of regulations applying to the financial aspects of dispute settlement;