Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber Fast arbitration: The experience of Piedmont Arbitration Chamber Wien, june 16 th, 2007 IDI Conference 2007

Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber Need for arbitration?  Is arbitration a tool only for big business?  Does arbitration always cost too much?  Is arbitration an alternative to court justice?

Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber The answer: Institutional arbitration  The arbitration is governed by a public or private institution  Advantages:  Settled Rules of proceedings: possibility to control deadlines and steps of the proceeding  Cost control : table of fees  Assistance during the proceedings  Quality control (arbitrators independence and competence)

Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber The Chambers of Commerce:  Scope of Market protection  Not in competition with the judicial system, but...  Their approach is service oriented, by means of cost limitation and speed  Public – institutional approach

Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber Civil justice in Italy  Pending proceedings before civil courts in 2005:  New proceedings introduced in 2006: 4.3 mln  Duration:  Courts (1° instance) 4 years  Court of Appeal: over 2 years = Total: 2607 days  Supreme Court: 3 years

Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber Arbitration before Italian Chambers of commerce (2004):  Duration of arbitral proceedings: 135 days  N. of arbitration proceedings before Chambers of commerce (2006): 487

Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber Arbitration cases in 53 Chambers of Commerce

Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber Arbitration chambers annexed to Chambers of commerce  103 chambers of commerce  69 arbitration chambers  103 mediation centers (the most well-known are probably Milan, Treviso, Piedmont and Rome)

Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber Piedmont Arbitration Chamber  Founded in 1995, is the only regional chamber in Italy, with a spread presence through a network of offices in all the 8 provinces of Piedmont.  Dating 2004 the organizations of lawyers, accountants and notaries, have entered with a representative into the Chamber governing bodies.

Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber “need for justice” for small value disputes spread of arbitration also for SME Cost limitation + fast resolution of the dispute Reasons for Fast Arbitration

Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber Fast Arbitration  Duration: two months after the hearing  Costs: 500 to 1500 Euros each party (depending on the value of the dispute)  Availability: for disputes up to € ( for international disputes)  Hearing: in general one (oral) hearing shall be sufficient  Decision: ritual (same value as a decision by the judge) and ex bono et aequo

Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber Fast arbitration Fees DOMESTIC Sum in disputeFees up to INTERNATIONAL Sum in disputeFees Up to above

Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber A. The instruments/tools  sole arbitrator  oral hearing  ex bono et aequo decision  foreclosures  concentration  models and forms Fast Arbitration

Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber B. The different style of the fast arbitrator  Not linked to ordinary civil process restrictions and limits  Limited only by principle of cross- examination  Can be more creative (can ask for evidences, can dispose cross- examination etc.. )  Concentration (oral hearing…) Fast arbitration

Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber C. The proceeding  value limits: up to € (art. 19)  particular system for appointment of the arbitrator (preferences of the parties within a list of names of prospectives arbitrators) (art. 23)  an oral hearing, decisions within 2 months (art. 24)  registered verbalisation and use of forms  forfetary costs (art. 26) Fast arbitration

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N. of cases (B2B)

Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber Typology of arbitral procedure

Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber A European Fast Arbitration Network  The ENDR : a EEIG founded by a group of regional Arbitration Centers in different european countries, to spread low cost arbitration for PME in transnational business

Daniela Cena – Piedmont Arbitration Chamber  Bordeaux  Lille  Lyon  Paris  Toulouse  Bilbao  Turin  Trieste  Munchen  Amsterdam