Sunday, November 18, 2012

20th Croatian Arbitration Days


OD 06.12.2012 DO 07.12.2012
PRIJAVE DO: 04.12.2012

Permanent Arbitration Courtat the Croatian Chamber of Economy cordially invites you to attend the jubilee conference “20th Croatian Arbitration Days”.

The conference shall take place in Zagrebon 6th and 7th December 2012 in the premises of the Croatian Chamber of Economy, Rooseveltov trg 2.
The conference will be devoted to three major topics: Investment arbitration in Eastern and Central Europe, Arbitration and Corruption and Arbitration in Central and Eastern Europe. The last topic shall further consider two additional subtopics: Amendments to the Croatian Law on Arbitration – Selected Issues and Enforcement of Awards in Local Courts – overview of five jurisdictions. In addition to the speakers at the conference, prominent experts and practitioners from the country and abroad, on the occasion of the 20th conference anniversary, as special guests the audience shall be addressed by, on the first day, Pierre A. Karrer (Switzerland) on the subject of Backstage at Arbitral Tribunals, and on the second day by Werner Melis (Austria) on the subject of Arbitration in Central and Eastern Europe – 20 years of changes.
We will also present the 19th volume of the Croatian Arbitration Yearbook (2012) in which current articles in the field of arbitration and mediation are to be published.
The speakers at this years’ conference shall once again be eminent foreign and domestic experts, theoreticians and practitioners in the field of arbitration.
The conference shall take place in Croatian and English, with professional simultaneous translation.

20th CROATIAN ARBITRATION DAYS
InternationaI Conference
Zagreb, 6th & 7th December 2012
Croatian Chamber of Economy
 Rooseveltov trg 2, Zagreb

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Thursday, 6th December 2012
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8:00 ~ 9:00          Registration

9:00 ~ 9:30          Opening of the Conference
                                  
9:30 - 13:00         Part I – Investment arbitrations in Central and Eastern Europe
– Moderator: Renaud Sorieul, Secretary of UNCITRAL, Vienna
                             
9:30 ~ 11:00        Jeffrey Sullivan, Allen & Overy LLP, London
„The UNCITRAL Rules and investment treaty arbitration: comparison and contrast to ICSID Convention disputes, procedures, annulment, enforcement“
Philippe Pinsolle, Shearman & Sterling LLP, Paris
„Damages in investment arbitration: are the standards different?“
James Castello, King & Spalding, Paris
„UNCITRAL Rules on transparency in treaty-based investor State arbitration“
Q & A

11:00 ~ 11:30      Coffee Break

11:30 ~ 13:00      Erhard Böhm, SpechtBöhm, Vienna
Irina Nazarova, Engarde Attorneys, Kyiv
                                               „The EU External Investment Policy and Intra-Europe BIT arbitrations“
                                               Florian Haugeneder, Wolf Theiss, Vienna
„Public policy and enforceability in Central and Eastern European investment arbitration disputes: emerging trends or simply sui generis?“
Federica Meijer Dusman, Deputy State Attorney of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb
„BIT – Accession of the Republic Croatia to the European Union”
Q & A

13:00 ~ 13:15      Presentation of the Croatian Arbitration Yearbook Vol. 19
                            Hrvoje Sikirić, Editor CAY

13:15 ~ 14:30      Buffet lunch

14:30 ~ 16:15      Part II – Arbitration and corruption
– Moderator: Richard Kreindler, Shearman & Sterling LLP, Frankfurt


Carolyn B. Lamm, White & Case LLP, Washington
„Corruption issues and Central and Eastern European investment arbitration disputes: emerging trends or simply sui generis?
Hilmar Raeschke-Kessler, Attorney at the Supreme Court, Karlsruhe-Ettlingen
"Allegation of corruption before an arbitral tribunal"
Christian Tietje, Martin-Luther-University, Faculty of Law, Halle-Wittenberg
Corruption by and towards States: Applicable Law concerning Attributing Corrupt Actions”
Ana Stanič, E&A Law Ltd., London
“UK Perspective on Corruption and Arbitration: From Westacre v. Jugoexport case to UK Bribery Act 2011
Q & A

16:15 ~ 16:30      Coffee break

16,30 ~ 17,00      Special guest speaker
                            Pierre A. Karrer, Attorney at Law, Zurich
                            „Backstage at Arbitral Tribunals“

End of first day

Friday,  7th december 2012
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8:30 ~ 14:00        Part III – Arbitration in Central and Eastern Europe

8:30 ~ 10:30        Law on Arbitration – Time for amendments?
                            Moderator: Krešimir Sajko, Member of the Presidency of the Permanent Arbitration Court at the Croatian Chamber of Economy, Zagreb
Mihajlo Dika, President of the Permanent Arbitration Court at the Croatian Chamber of Economy, Zagreb
„The court's role during the course of the arbitral proceedings“
                            Alan Uzelac, Faculty of Law, Zagreb
                            „Arbitration agreement“
                            Davor Babić, Faculty of Law, Zagreb
                            „Arbitrability“
                            Boris Porobija, Porobija & Porobija, Zagreb
                            „Decisions of the arbitral tribunal“
                            Jasnica Garašić, Faculty of Law, Zagreb
                            „Recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards“
                            Q & A

10:30 ~ 11:00      Coffee Break

11:00 ~ 13:00      Enforcement of arbitral awards by local courts in Central and Eastern Europe
                            Moderator: Jens Bredow, General Secretary of German Institution of Arbitration, Cologne

Aleš Galič, Faculty of Law, Ljubljana
Gašo Knežević, President of the Foreign Trade Arbitration Court attached to the Serbian Chamber of Economy, Belgrade
Andreas Reiner, Reiner & Partner, Vienna
Laszlo Kecskes, President of the Arbitration Court attached to the Hungarian Chamber of Economy and Industry, Budapest
Piotr Nowaczyk, Salans, Warsaw
Q & A

13:00 ~ 13:10      Break

13:10 ~ 13:40      Special guest speaker

DDr. Werner Melis, Vienna
„Arbitration in Central and Eastern Europe – 20 years of changes“

13:40 ~ 13:45      Closing of the Conference

End of the Conference



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