Arbitration Rules:: The Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA)

Introduction
: 1-The Cairo Centre applies the Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations by resolution No. 31/98 on December 15, 1976 (UNCITRAL Rules). The Cairo Centre adopted these Rules since its establishment with minor amendments required to adapt the UNCITRAL Rules to institutional arbitration and to satisfy the needs and desires of practitioners, including disputants, arbitrators, lawyers and businessmen, as well as to cope with modern practice, recent developments and comparative law in the field of international commercial arbitration 1 .

In fact, after putting arbitration and other Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) techniques in actual practice in the years following the Centre’s inception, the need pressed for improving the Rules of the Centre. This need arose in view of the new developments of improving the laws of different states. Moreover, the world wide acceptance of arbitration as a popular and normal means getting more momentum in settling international commercial disputes and the rapid globalization of the world economy were important elements that pressed for adaptation of the Rules to the changing economic relations. Also, the removal of many old and traditional barriers that were set up by national systems in international trade resulted in the substantial increase and complexity of commercial disputes that required new amendments in the institutional rules.

Hence, new amendments were included in the UNCITRAL Rules applied by the Centre to guarantee rapidity, flexibility, neutrality and efficacy.

2- In order to ensure the administration and the conduct of arbitral proceedings subject to the Rules of Arbitration of the Cairo Centre, three High Legal Committees were constituted and composed from among the members of the Center's Board of Trustees (hereinafter the "High Legal Committee(s)"), any of which shall have the power to provide a reasoned opinion by majority vote in the matters that should be referred to it under articles 7 (bis) and 12 (bis) of these Rules, in addition to the other matters referred to it by the Director of the Centre.

Following are the Rules of Arbitration of the Cairo Centre in English amd Arabic:

For English :

For Arabic :

1 These amendments were made in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2006. They became effective as of January 1st, 1998, October 1st, 2000, November 21st, 2002 and October 2006, respectively.