ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin
Volume 14/ No. 2

The latest issue of the ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin, now available, gives special focus to EC competition law. On 1 May 2004, the implementation of competition law in the European Union will become subject to new rules, which will have considerable practical consequences for arbitration.

To mark this event, the ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin has published extracts from five ICC arbitral awards from the period 1995-2001, containing detailed discussions on European Community competition law. These extracts provide concrete illustrations of cases in which arbitrators have been required to consider the validity of agreements and non-compete clauses in the light of EC antitrust law.

In the same issue, competition law specialists Maurits Dolmans and Jacob Grierson examine the principal issues relating to the application of EC antitrust rules by arbitral tribunals and consider the practical consequences for arbitration of the recent reform of these rules.

In keeping with the international scope of the Bulletin, Vol. 14/No. 2 also contains articles by Borham Atallah on Egyptian arbitration law during the ten years since the adoption of the 1994 arbitration statute, and by Shishir Dholakia on the enforcement of arbitral agreements and foreign awards under Indian law. Both articles provide an up-to-date assessment of the state of the law with respect to arbitration in these two countries.

The combination of arbitration with conciliation or mediation, a technique increasingly used in the Asia/Oceania region, is the subject of a further article by Toshio Sawada, Japanese arbitrator and professor, and Vice-Chairman of the ICC International Court of Arbitration.

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