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EVROPSKI CENTER ZA REŠEVANJE SPOROV S POMEMBNIM PRIZNANJEM EVROPSKEGA PRAVNEGA INŠTITUTA

Številne aktivnosti za spodbujanje vključevanja alternativnih načinov reševanja sporov na sodišča

Generalna sekretarka Evropskega pravnega instituta (European Law Institute - ELI) dr. Vanessa Vilcox je Evropskemu centru za reševanje sporov (ECDR) izrekla priznanje za obsežne aktivnosti, ki jih je slednji v preteklem letu izvajal tako v Sloveniji kot v celotni Evropi.

ECDR, ki vse od leta 2014 deluje kot ELI hub za Slovenijo, je prejel pomembno priznanje za izvedene aktivnosti, med katerimi izstopajo prispevki slovenskih strokovnjakov pri razvoju evropskih standardov na področju ilegalnih migracij in azila ter na področju vključevanja reševanja sporov z mediacijo, arbitražo in zgodnjo nevtralno oceno spora v delo sodišč.

”Ponosni smo, da smo del evropske pravne stroke in da ELI prepozna naš trud. Ves čas aktivno sodelujemo tako z domačimi kot tujimi strokovnjaki ter spodbujamo alternativno reševanje sporov na vseh ravneh,” poudarja  predsednik ECDR Aleš Zalar. 

Spodbujanje mediacije v Srbiji

Med aktualnimi aktivnostmi ECDR, ki jo je izpostavil tudi ELI, je majska mednarodna konferenca o mediaciji v Srbiji, kjer je na pobudo ECDR Gospodarska zbornica Srbije slovesno podpisala posebno javno izjavo, s katero se je zavezala k podpori in promociji mediacije v srbskem gospodarstvu.

Prvo srečanje v Ljubljani

ECDR nadaljuje s svojimi aktivnostmi koordinacije ELI huba v Sloveniji tudi v prihodnje. Tako že septembra v Ljubljani napoveduje prvo skupno srečanje predstavnikov ELI hubov iz Slovenije, Francije in Italije. Na njem bo kot osrednji govorec prisoten tudi lord Jonathan Mance, namestnik predsednika vrhovnega sodišča Združenega kraljestva.

Aktvnosti, ki jih je v preteklem letu izvedel ECDR, so podrobneje opisane v letnem poročilu, dostopnem na naslednji povezavi.

 

O Evropskem pravnem inštitutu

Evropski pravni inštitut (European Law Institute - ELI) je bil ustanovljen v Parizu leta 2011. Gre za mednarodno neprofitno organizacijo, ustanovljeno na podlagi belgijskega prava, pisarna sekretariata ELI pa ima sedež na Dunaju, kjer potekajo tudi sestanki raznih odborov ELI, vključno z izvršnim odborom.

V letu 2014 je tudi Ljubljana postala center aktivnosti ELI-ja, in sicer so jo izbrali za predstavništvo Jugovzhodne Evrope, Slovenija pa je s tem dobila večji vpliv na zakonodajno urejanje v EU. Sedež ELI-ja v Ljubljani je tako na Evropskem centru za reševanje sporov, ki mu predsedujeta Katarina Kresal in Aleš Zalar.

Temeljni cilji ELI-ja so proučevanje in spodbujanje evropskega pravnega razvoja. Je posvetovalno telo Evropske komisije, saj slednja znotraj njega testira pomembna pravna vprašanja ter pripravlja osnutke za reforme in zakone. ELI deluje preko različnih strokovnih organizacij, med njimi je torej tudi Evropski center za reševanje sporov.

 

 

 

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POSLOVNA STRATEGIJA – REŠEVANJE SPOROV

Spor ponavadi roma v pravni oddelek ali k izbranemu odvetniku in konča na sodišču, kjer čaka na rešitev nadaljnjih nekaj let. Kakšen bo na koncu rezultat, ne ve nihče. Pa je vprašanje načina reševanja sporov res izključna domena pravnikov?

V letu 2003 je bila izvedena obširna raziskava o gospodarskih sporih in njihovih učinkih na podjetja, ki je pokazala, da podjetja zaradi zapletanja v spore v 87 % prizadene ekstremna poraba časa, v 70 % jih zaradi tega doletijo finančne izgube, v 41 % ne dosežejo poslovnih ciljev. Tako posledično trpi morala zaposlenih in poslovni ugled podjetja.

 

Strategija reševanja sporov

Ne glede na negativne vplive, ki jih spori imajo na podjetja, pa se naša podjetja večinoma ne ukvarjajo z vprašanjem reševanja sporov kot s poslovno kategorijo; za reševanje sporov pravzaprav nimajo pripravljene posebne strategije. Kako pa se lotiti takšne strategije? Učinkovite rešitve vam lahko prinesejo že naslednji štirje koraki.

 

Več o načinih reševanja sporov lahko preberete na: http://novipodjetnik.si/katarina-kresal-resevanje-sporov/ 

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Podjetja lahko pri sporih prihranijo veliko časa in denarja

 

Pri sporih podjetja v 80 % najbolj prizadane izguba časa in denarja. Zaradi zapletanja v spore velikokrat izgubijo fokus in posledično ne dosegajo poslovnih ciljev. Zato je prav, da se podjetja zavedajo, da je reševanje sporov poslovno vprašanje, ki zahteva sprejem ustrezne strategije. 

 

Za revijo Direktor je alternativne oblike reševanja sporov predstavila predsednica ECDR Katarina Kresal. Preberite intervju na: 

http://www.revija-direktor.si/21/mobile/index.html#p=13

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PROJEKT »ŠOLSKA IN VRSTNIŠKA MEDIACIJA V BOSNI IN HERCEGOVINI 2019-2020« ZA KREPITEV ODNOSOV MED UČITELJI IN UČENCI 

Zavedanje, da je pogovor in dogovarjanje ključno pri preprečevanju in reševanju konfliktov, je zelo dolgo prisotno tudi v vzgojno izobraževalnih ustanovah. Mediacija kot oblika konstruktivnega reševanja vsakodnevnih konfliktov pa prodira v šolsko okolje v zadnjem poldrugem desetletju. Medtem, ko jo Slovenija uspešno uporablja že skoraj 15 let, se v Bosni in Hercegovini prav sedaj odvijajo njeni začetki.

Po uspešnem zaključku pilotnega projekta »ŠOLSKA IN VRSTNIŠKA MEDIACIJA V BOSNI IN HERCEGOVINI« v šolskem letu 2017/2018 z vključenimi tremi šolami in nadaljevanju v šolskem letu 2018/2019 (druga faza) z vključenimi devetimi šolami ter dodatno podporo Koreje, se je 14. avgusta 2019 v Gračanici v Bosni in Hercegovini pričela tretja faza projekta. Osrednje projektne aktivnosti, v katere bo vključenih skupno 23 osnovnih šol iz Federacije BiH (Gračanica), Republike Srbske (Doboj) in okrožja Brčko, bodo potekale v času 14. avgust 2019 do junija 2020. 

Projekt financira Ministrstvo za zunanje zadeve Republike Slovenije (MZZ). Projektni partner je ITF Ustanova za krepitev človekove varnosti (ITF), treninge šolske mediacije za učitelje in trenerje izvaja Concordia. Kot tretji partner z nalogo priprave priporočila za integracijo mediacije v šolskem sistemu  pa je vključen tudi Evropski center za reševanje sporov (ECDR).

 

OSNOVNI CILJ PROJEKTA JE PRENOS ZNANJA S PODROČJA MEDIACIJSKIH METOD, ki se lahko uporabljajo pri reševanju vsakodnevnih konfliktnih situacij med učenci in učitelji. 

Sodelujoči se bodo naučili komunikacijskih veščin, ki jih bodo lahko koristno uporabili tudi v življenju nasploh. Poseben poudarek projekta je tudi na VRSTNIŠKI MEDIACIJI, ki podpira reševanje sporov med učenci, izboljšuje vzdušje v šoli in preprečuje nastajanje večjih konfliktov v prihodnosti. 

Projekt šolske in vrstniške mediacije je v BiH še posebno pomemben, saj se z reševanjem konfliktov na konstruktiven in miroljuben način POMEMBNO KREPITA MEDETNIČNA IN MEDKULTURNA STRPNOST, ENAKOPRAVNOST TER DIALOG ZA TRAJNOSTNI MIR V POKONFLIKTNIH IN TRANZICIJSKIH DRUŽBAH.

Izvedba treh načrtovanih projektnih aktivnosti – osvežitveni tečaj (Gračanica), usposabljanje za trenerje mediatorje – prvi del (Gračanica) in usposabljanje za šolske mediatorje (Brčko) je bila uspešna.

NADALJNJE PROJEKTNE AKTIVNOSTI so: usposabljanje za šolske mediatorje (Doboj), usposabljanje za šolske mediatorje (Gračanica) ter usposabljanje za trenerje mediatorje – drugi del (Gračanica), ki bodo potekale v septembru 2019, usposabljanje za šolske mediatorje (Mostar), predvideno za december 2019 ter izvajanje supervizije dela šolskih mediatorjev na šolah. 

Načrtovane so tudi aktivnosti, ki imajo predvidoma POMEMBEN DOPRINOS H KREPITVI MEDKULTURNEGA DIALOGA IN IZMENJAVO DOBRIH PRAKS. S tem namenom se načrtuje ekskurzija za otroke v BiH in strokovna ekskurzija za učitelje v Sloveniji.

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Arbitraže posebne vrste

Ste se kdaj, ujeti v neskončno sodno pravdanje, spraševali, kaj vam je tega treba? Če vas zanima, kako dokončno rešiti spor, ne da bi prestopili prag sodišča, preberite sledeči članek - Arbitraže posebne vrste. 

 

Vir: https://novipodjetnik.si/

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 IZJAVA ZA JAVNOST

 

Evropski center za reševanje sporov prvi registriran ponudnik izvensodnega reševanja potrošniških sporov v Sloveniji

 

Ljubljana, 23. februar - Novembra 2015 je začel veljati Zakon o izvensodnem reševanju potrošniških sporov, ki potrošnikom omogoča hitro, poceni, enostavno in učinkovito reševanje sporov, ne da bi jim bilo za to treba na sodišče. Izvajalci postopkov reševanja potrošniških sporov morajo biti po novem registrirani priMinistrstvu za gospodarski razvoj in tehnologijo, ki je pristojno tudi za nadzor nad njihovim delovanjem. Prvi registriran ponudnik izvensodnega reševanja potrošniških sporov v Sloveniji je postal Evropski center za reševanje sporov (ECDR).   

Za podjetja, ki delujejo na področjih telekomunikacij, pošte, energetike, transporta, bančništva, zavarovalništva ter drugih finančnih storitev, je sodelovanje v izvensodnih postopkih za reševanje potrošniških sporov po zakonu obvezno, zato soglasja potrošniku za tak način reševanja spora ne morejo odreči. Za ostala podjetja je izbira teh postopkov prostovoljna, razlog za njihovo uporabo pa je v konkurenčni prednosti, ki jo podjetja s tako dodatno ponudbo za potrošnike pridobijo v razmerju do konkurentov na trgu. Podjetja morajo svoje poslovanje uskladiti z določbami zakona v roku 6 mesecev odkar je zakon stopil v veljavo.

ECDR ponuja tri različne vrste postopkov reševanja potrošniških sporov in sicer mediacijo, kombinirani postopek mediacije in pospešene arbitraže (med-arb) in pogojno zavezujočo pospešeno arbitražo. Vsi trije postopki so enostavni, zaključijo se v roku 30 dni in so za potrošnika brezplačni. Postopke vodijo izkušeni akreditirani mediatorji oziroma arbitri. Več o vrsti postopkov, strokovnjakih in tarifi za reševanje potrošniških sporov, ki velja za podjetja, lahko preberete na www.ecdr.si.

 

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KAJ NOVI ZAKON O IZVENSODNEM REŠEVANJU POTROŠNIŠKIH SPOROV PRINAŠA POTROŠNIKOM?

Izvensodno reševanje sporov potrošnikom prinaša veliko več možnosti kot reševanje sporov na sodiščih, kjer so potrošniki praviloma šibkejši od ponudnikov, je prepričana Katarina Kresal.

V Sloveniji premalo poznamo prednosti izvensodnega reševanja potrošniških sporov in zaradi tega se, v nekaterih primerih pa tudi zaradi preračunljivosti, raje odločamo za preobremenjena sodišča, nam je v pogovoru pojasnila predsednica Evropskega centra za reševanje sporov (ECDR) Katarina Kresal.

Zakon o izvensodnem reševanju potrošniških sporov (ZIsRPS), ki je začel veljati 14. novembra lani, potrošnikom prinaša pomembne novosti in pravice. Ker pri nas še niso razvite dobre prakse izvensodnega reševanja potrošniških sporov, je ECDR v sodelovanju z državnim svetom in Evropskim pravnim inštitutom organiziral strokovni posvet na temo novega zakona, ki bo potekal danes. Udeleženci bodo lahko opozorili na bistvene dileme, na podlagi razprave pa bodo lahko oblikovali priporočila, ki bodo pomagala pri izvajanju določb novega zakona.

Vabljeni k branju pogovora z Katarino Kresal, predsednico ECDR na naslednji povezavi: http://www.siol.net/novice/gospodarstvo/2016/02/zakon_o_izvensodnem_resevanju_potrosniskih_sporov.aspx

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Izobraževanje: Kako bo po novem potekalo reševanje sporov potrošnikov

Sredi novembra je začel veljati novi Zakon o izvensodnem reševanju potrošniških sporov, ZIzRPS, Uradni list RS, št. 81/2015.

 Zakon se uporablja tako za domače kot za čezmejne potrošniške spore, ki se rešujejo s posredovanjem izvajalca IRPS, kadar spor izhaja iz prodajne pogodbe ali pogodbe o opravljanju storitev, sklenjene med podjetjem, ki ima sedež v Evropski uniji, in potrošnikom s prebivališčem v Evropski uniji.

Z zakonom bo potrošnikom in ponudnikom na vseh gospodarskih področjih zagotovljena možnosthitrega, cenovno dostopnega, enostavnega in učinkovitega izvensodnega reševanja sporov v klasični in spletni trgovini. 

Z vzpostavitvijo ustrezne infrastrukture za IRPS (izvensodno reševanje potrošniških sporov) se bo povečala pravna varnost ponudnikov in potrošnikov. S tem bo potrošnikom omogočena večjadostopnost do pravnega varstva, ob zavezanosti ponudnikov k IRPS pa se po eni strani sicer lahko povečajo njihovi stroški poslovanja, hkrati pa se po drugi strani krepi zaupanje potrošnikov in v povezavi s tem tudi njihovo povpraševanje po izdelkih in storitvah, vse to pa ponudnikom prinaša primerjalne prednosti na trgu.

Predavatelja:

• Katarina Kresal, predsednica Evropskega centra za reševanje sporov (ECDR)
• Aleš Zalar, predsednik Evropskega centra za reševanje sporov (ECDR)

 

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JAVNA RAZPRAVA O AKTUALNIH VPRAŠANJIH ALTERNATIVNEGA REŠEVANJA SPOROV

Evropska pravna fakulteta ter Fakulteta za državne in evropske študije organizirata predavanje gostujočega profesorja dr. Oliverja C. Ruppla ter javno razpravo o aktualnih vprašanjih teorije in prakse alternativnega reševanja sporov, ki jo bo moderirala Katarina Kresal, ustanoviteljica Evropskega centra za reševanje sporov.

 

Dogodek bo potekal od 2. 11. do 4. 11. 2015 v prostorih Evropske pravne fakultete (Cankarjevo nabrežje 11). Program sledi.

 

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Annual Hub and Special Interest Group (SIG) Evaluation

 

Hub/SIG Name:                 ELI hub for Slovenia                                                                                                                                                               

Date of Establishment:    14.4.2014

 Coordinators:                   European Centre for Dispute Resolution (ECDR)

 

 

Active Members/Participants

Membership of the Slovenian hub is not formally registered. Any interested individual or institution is welcomed to participate in the hub. Events, organized in the past, brought together several hundreds of active participants from the judiciary, the parliament, the government and other state bodies, law practice, universities etc.

                                                                                                                                   

Report on Activities

Representative of the hub Mr. Aleš Zalar, as a member of the ELI’s Project Group, contributed to the development and adoption of the ELI/ENCJ Statement on Relationship between Formal and Informal Justice: Courts and ADR (2016-2018).

Draft Statement was presented by Mr. Aleš Zalar at the 2nd meeting of the South-East Europe (SEE) Network of Association of Mediators, organized by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) in Zagreb (Croatia) on 24-25 October 2017.

Upon proposal of the representatives of the ELI Slovenia’s hub, RCC decided to commission a checklist/guidelines study with recommendations on court-related ADR, based upon ELI/ENCJ Statement on Courts and ADR (RCC Report from 30th October 2017).

ELI Statement on Courts and ADR was presented by Mr. Aleš Zalar at the international conference on mediation as primary dispute resolution option, which took place from 10th-11th May 2018 in Belgrade.

Upon invitation of the Secretariat, Mr. Aleš Zalar will be among speakers at the ERA’s conference in Trier in November 2018 where ELI’s Statement on Courts and ADR will be further presented and promoted.

Upon the proposal of the European Commission, expert consultation of representatives of ELI hub for Slovenia with the representative of the European Commission took place in Ljubljana in April 2017 concerning dispute system design options to be proposed by the European Commission to the EU Member States when drafting bilateral investment treaties (BIT’s) and amending existing ones.

Referring to the recent landmark decision of the CJEU in a case Achmea BV (Case C-284/16) and taking into account pending arbitration in Vattenfall case (ICSID ARB 12/12), the public expert discussion on the future of State-Investor arbitration and mediation in the EU is planned to be organized by the ELI’S hub for Slovenia in the following month.

Representatives of the ELI’S hubs from Slovenia, France and Italy met in Vienna (during ELI’S annual meeting) and decided to organize first joint meeting of three hubs in Ljubljana in a year 2018. Among selected topics, implications of Brexit where identified as of highest priority therefore as a keynote speaker Honorable Justice Lord Jonathan Mance (UK) kindly accepted to join that meeting, which will be organized in early September 2018. The public part of this event will be promoted among domestic stakeholders.

Upon proposal of ELI’S hub for Slovenia the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia included mediation as one of key topics of the Bled Strategic Forum, which brings together more than 1000 diplomats, politicians and legal experts from all five continents and will take place on 10th-11th September 2018. Representative of the hub Mrs. Katarina Kresal, former minister of home affairs as a panelist, will present also the activities of ELI in this field.

Outstanding contribution to ELI’s activities was performed by member of ELI’S hub for Slovenia Mr. Boštjan Zalar, who coordinated the ELI’s project on Detention of Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants and the Rule of Law:

Kiev, 20-21 April 2017: Asylum Systems Quality Initiative in Eastern Europe and South Caucasus, phase II (UNHCR, workshop for judges), presentation of selected topics including ELI project on detention.

Ljubljana, 8-9 May 2017, Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, ACTIONES seminar for judges and lawyers organised by the European University Institute (Florence), Judicial Training centre and Faculty of Law; presentation of the selected topics including: “Project of the European Law Institute: Detention of Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants and the Rule of Law.”

Belgrade, 4-5 July 2017: “Judicial Aspects of European Asylum Law: Introduction to the CEAS”, training event organised by EASO for judges of Serbia; presentation of the selected topics, including the ELI project on detention.

Trento, University of Trento, 2-3 October 2017: Re-jus Transnational Training Workshop: Towards Effective Justice in the Fields of Asylum and Immigration; presentation of the topic: “The role of the Charter rights to good administration, fair trial, effective remedy and general principles of EU law in the field of asylum and immigration” and “Check-lists and other instruments for a more effective judicial practice in the field of asylum and immigration detention.”

Brussels, 23-24 October 2017, Final Conference of the ACTIONES project (EUI, Florence); Active Charter Training through Interaction of National Experiences; presentation of the topic: “The Road to Luxembourg through Preliminary Ruling” (including discussion on ELI project on detention).

Chisinau, 30-31 October 2017: Asylum Systems Quality Initiative, Regional Conference for Legal Aid Providers on Providing Legal Assistance to Asylum Seekers and Refugees; presentation of the topics: “Building Legal Aid System for Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Europe: The Experiences of Slovenia” and “Selection of 12 Basic European Standards/Criteria for Effective Judicial Protection in Disputes on International Protection” and “Quality Standards and Tools: Judicial Perspective” (including presentation of Eli project on detention).

Stockholm, 2-3 November 2017, EJTN Administrative Law Project: Judicial Training on EU Asylum Law (transnational workshop for judges); presentation of the topic: “Overview of Milestones in (Legislation and) Case Law of the CJEU” (including ELI project on detention).

Malta, 20-21 November 2017, EASO Professional development workshop on the Common European Asylum System; moderation of the workshop and presentation of the selected topics, including ELI project on detention.

Ljubljana 15-16 March 2018: moderation of the seminar for newly appointed refugee counsellors; presentations of selected topics, including ELI project on detention.

Forthcoming events where the ELI project on detention will be promoted in discussions are:

Catania, Sicily, 12-14 September 2018, Joint International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges (IARMJ-Europe) and Scuola Superiore della Magistratura Conference. “The Right to Effective Judicial Protection under EU Asylum Law” (parallel session 2: legal issues surrounding detention)

CJEU, Luxembourg, 22-23 November 2018, EASO High Level Judicial Roundtable with CJEU, ECtHR and IARLJ-Europe.

                                               

Report on Governance

There is no formal organization of the hub in forms of governing bodies and there is also no need to introduce it. The hub is operating as a network of individuals and institutions, interested in the EU legal issues to which everyone could contribute.

Channels of communications and dialogue within this network are opened and transparent. Activities are announced and promoted via web site of ECDR, articles in professional magazines, press releases, personal or institutional invitations etc. Any ELI member is more than welcomed to propose or initiate activity which is in the interest of ELI.

Nevertheless, it is important that ELI’S hub for Slovenia can rely on professional management and administration structure, excellent space facilities as well as funding, provided by the ECDR as a private, non-profit institute.

   

Report on Funding

The ELI’S hub for Slovenia ensures main funding for its ‘activities through on-going financial contributions of ECDR and occasionally through contributions of respective institutions when an event is co-organized, for example by the Parliament. A lot of pro-bono activities of individual experts were registered as well.

Additional Comments

In order to increase the relevance of hubs and provide sustainability of their operations, it is recommended to provide hubs with certain financial support from the budget of ELI upon justified demand, issued by a hub. Standards of such justification should be elaborated.

 

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Pogovor s Katarino Kresal gostjo oddaje Na Tretjem, gostitelj Boštjan Veselič

Predsednica ECDR Katarina Kresal je v tokratni oddaji, ki je bila na sporedu 10.5., spregovorila o prednostih reševanja sporov na miren način, o možnostih in prednostih, ki jih ponuja zgodnja nevtralna ocena spora, o postopkih in orodjih za učinkovitejše insolvenčne postopke ter ostalih storitvah ECDR, ki svojim strankam olajšajo, skrajšajo ter pocenijo pravdo. Z gostiteljem pa se nista izognila oceni stanja slovenskega pravosodja ter stanja v slovenski politiki.

 

Pogovor si lahko ogledate na spletni povezavi http://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/na-tretjem/174335080

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TOREK OB 17.00 Z IZAKOM KOŠIRJEM, 7. 4. 2015

»Na enem mestu ponujamo vse vrste alternativnih postopkov, tudi najbolj moderne, kot so na primer hibridni postopki ali zgodnja nevtralna ocena. Poleg tega pa nudimo tudi specializirana izobraževanja in strokovno svetovanje s področja reševanja sporov, oblikovanja sistemov pravosodja in notranjih zadev ter priprave regulatornega okvirja, in to tako doma kot v tujini,« je v intervjuju z Izakom Koširjem dejala Katarina Kresal.

 

Njen celoten intervju si lahko preberete na:http://torekobpetih.si/intervju/slovenija-nujno-potrebuje-pravo-liberalno-stranko/

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BREZ STRAHU IN DOLGIH ČAKALNIH VRST

Katarina Kresal je 17. marca gostovala na štajerskem radiu Slovenske gorice, kjer se je v oddaji Pod zvezdami pogovarjala z voditeljema Romano Drumlič in Maksom Kurbusom. Kot ugotavljata slednja, lahko večje spore rešimo tudi drugače kot le na sodišču, pri čemer je strah pred velikimi stroški in dolgimi čakalnimi vrstami povsem odveč.

 

Prisluhnite zanimivemu pogovoru: http://www.rsg.si/?page_id=4218

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Katarina Kresal,predsednica ECDR, na »Zajtrku PR' Andreji«.

Predsednica ECDR, Katarina Kresal je bila v sredo 19. 11. gostja druženje na »Zajtrku PR' Andreji«. Z gostiteljico Andrejo Jernejčič sta se pogovarjali o načinih alternativnega reševanja sporov. Posnetek pogovora, ki ga je predvajala televizija Vaš Kanal, si lahko ogledate na povezavi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNmDhcDgGAI 

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SPOROČILO ZA JAVNOST O MEDIACIJI V SPORU MED DRŽAVO IN LADISLAVOM TROHO

Na podlagi pooblastila mediatorjev, Andreja Razdriha in Anke Stojan, Evropski center za reševanje sporov (ECDR), zaradi številnih vprašanj medijev o poteku postopka mediacije v sporu med Republiko Slovenijo in gospodom Ladislavom Troho sporoča, da sta se mediatorja na podlagi 13. člena Zakona o mediaciji v civilnih in gospodarskih zadevah odločila zaključiti postopek mediacije. Kljub zelo intenzivnim prizadevanjem obeh mediatorjev za posredovanje v tem sporu in pomembnim popuščanjem obeh strank v sporu, so razlike med strankama v sporu ostale nepremostljive, zato stranki nista dosegli sporazumne rešitve spora. Sta pa stranki vzpostavili korektno medsebojno komunikacijo, ki jima, v kolikor bosta to želeli, omogoča nadaljnja iskanja možnosti za dogovor v okviru neposrednih pogajanj ali na drug ustrezen način.

Oba mediatorja sta ECDR obvestila, da se odpovedujeta nagradi za njuno posredovanje, ECDR pa je že pred začetkom postopka mediacije sporočil, da ne bo obračunal administrativnega stroška za organizacijo postopka.

Aleš Zalar, predsednik ECDR

 

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Evropski pravni inštitut ELI

ECDR v sodelovanju z Državnim svetom RS pripravlja konferenco ob začetku delovanja Evropskega pravnega inštituta v Sloveniji. Konferenca, na kateri bo predstavljen inštitut, njegovo delo in projekti, bo potekala v ponedeljek, 14. aprila, ob 15. uri, v dvorani Državnega sveta Republike Slovenije, Šubičeva 4, Ljubljana. Več o njej si lahko preberete na povezavi: http://www.ds-rs.si/?q=dogodki/otvoritvena-konferenca-evropskega-pravnega-instituta-eli-v-sloveniji

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JE TREBA NUJNO NA SODIŠČE, ČE STE V SPORU?

Na Radiu Univox je Katarina Kresal spregovorila o prijaznejšem načinu reševanja sporov. Predstavila je postopke izvensodnega reševanja sporov, njihove prednosti in način delovanja Evropskega centra za reševanje sporov.

 Celoten pogovor lahko poslušate na sledeči povezavi:

 https://soundcloud.com/ecdr/katarina-kresal-11-02-2014

 

Vir: Radio Univox

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V STUDIU OB 17. STA DNE 7.3.2014 SODELOVALA TUDI PREDSEDNIKA ECDR, KATARINA KRESAL IN ALEŠ ZALAR

 Ste se kdaj vprašali kakšna sta uporabnost in doprinos alternativnih oblik reševanja sporov? Vas zanima kako jih lahko uporabljate tudi sami?

 

Alternativne oblike reševanja sporov so v tujini že običajna praksa. V civilnih in gospodarskih zadevah uporabo alternativnih oblik spodbuja tudi direktiva Evropske unije. Kako vplivajo na zmanjševanje sodnih zaostankov na slovenskih sodiščih? Kaj o alternativnih postopkih menijo odvetniki? Katere so prednosti in koristi takšnih postopkov za uporabnike? Kakšne so dozdajšnje izkušnje s temi postopki pri nas? To so samo nekatera vprašanja na katera so odgovarjali gostje Studia ob 17.

Vabljenji k poslušanju oddaje na spodnji povezavi.

http://radioprvi.rtvslo.si/prispevek/14458

 

 

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POSEBNOSTI MEDIACIJE V SPORIH S ČEZMEJNIM ELEMENTOM V EU

Specializirano usposabljanje je namenjeno mediatorjem v programih sodišč in mediatorjem z drugih različnih področij javnega in zasebnega sektorja, ki želijo pridobiti dodatna teoretična in praktična znanja o mediaciji v sporih s čezmejnim elementom v EU. Več podrobnejših informacij o konferenci je dostopnih na povezavi.

 

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POTROŠNIŠKI SPORI IN MEDIACIJA

V oddaji Dobra ura z Jasno na prvem programu TV SLO je ga. Kresal predstavila postopke, ki jih ECDR vodi v zvezi s potrošniškimi spori. Izpostavila je tudi prednosti mediacije. 

Vabimo vas kl ogledu oddaje (3. 12.): http://www.rtvslo.si/dobraura/arhiv

Vir: TV SLO 1 

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PRAVI KLJUČI: ZGODNJA NEVTRALNA OCENA SPORA

V oddaji Pravi ključi na Vašem Kanalu sta Katarina Kresal in dr. Janez Čebulj govorila o zgodnji nevtralni oceni spora.

Vabimo vas k ogledu oddaje: http://bit.ly/17ZXATo

Vir: Vaš kanal

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“Praktično ni področja, s katerega ne bi bil spor”

Aleš Zalar, predsednik Evropskega centra za reševanje sporov (ECDR), pravi: “Alternativni postopki so običajno nekajkrat cenejši od sodnih postopkov. Raziskava Evropske Komisije je na primer ugotovila, da samo z mediacijo lahko stranke v povprečju prihranijo 13.000 EUR stroškov in 400 dni časa.” Celoten intervju z g. Zalarjem preberite na: http://bit.ly/1cPG2xI

Vir: Revija Kapital

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Ali se spor sploh splača

ECDR nudi trenutno 12 različnih postopkov reševanja sporov, narava katerih je zelo različna. V postopku zgodnje nevtralne ocene lahko na primer posamezna stranka dobi objektivno oceno nekdanjega sodnika, kako ji kaže, če bo spor prišel na sodišče, in se na podlagi tega odloči, kako ga bo reševala. Celoten članek preberite na sledeči povezavi: http://bit.ly/175lq3x

Vir: Revija Kapital

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MEDNARODNA KONFERENCA "DRŽAVA, PRAVOSODJE IN MEDIACIJA"

5. oktobra 2013 bo v Romuniji potekala mednarodna konferenca GEMMA - sekcije Romunija, kjer bodo predstavljeni vidiki dobrih praks vključevanja mediacije v sodni sistem. Konference se bodo udeležili tudi predstavniki ECDR. Več o konferenci lahko preberete na sledeči povezavi http://www.gemme.eu/nation/romania/news/the-annual-conference-2013-of-the-romanian-section-of-gemme.

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Pravi ključi: Alternativni postopki reševanja sporov

V oddaji Pravi ključi na Vašem Kanalu sta Katarina Kresal in Aleš Zalar govorila o alternativnih postopkih reševanja sporov.

Vabimo vas k ogledu oddaje: http://bit.ly/1gOpNAT

Vir: Vaš kanal

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Evropski center za reševanje sporov spodbuja mediacijo v srbskem gospodarstvu

 

Evropski center za reševanje sporov (ECDR) je 10. in 11. maja 2018 v okviru projekta »Gospodarska mediacija v Srbiji« ob podpori Evropske banke za obnovo in razvoj (EBRD) in v sodelovanju z Gospodarsko zbornico Srbije v Beogradu izvedel zaključno konferenco o mediaciji kot primarnemu načinu reševanja gospodarskih sporov.

 

Konference se je udeležilo več kot 100 poslovnežev, odvetnikov, sodnikov in mediatorjev iz Srbije, pa tudi slovenski veleposlanik v Srbiji, gospod Vladimir Gašparič. Otvorili so jo visoki predstavniki srbske gospodarske zbornice, ministrstva za pravosodje, vrhovnega kasacijskega sodišča, pravosodne akademije in EBRD.

 

Mediacija v Srbiji tudi s pomočjo omenjenega projekta doživlja preporod ob polni podpori politike in stroke. Udeleženci konference so izkazali veliko zanimanje za izmenjavo izkušenj in dobrih praks pri izvajanju mediacije v Sloveniji, ki so jim jih predstavili strokovnjaki ECDR, Katarina Kresal, Maša Kociper in Aleš Zalar. Na pobudo ECDR je na konferenci Gospodarska zbornica Srbije slovesno podpisala tudi posebno javno izjavo, s katero se je zavezala k podpori in promociji mediacije v srbskem gospodarstvu.

 

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Amerike verjetno ne bomo ujeli

Pogovor s Katarino Kresal, predsednico Evropskega centra za reševanje sporov, o alterinativnih postopkih reševanja sporov. Celoten intervju preberite na naslednji povezavi: http://bit.ly/12GmHvP

Vir: Revija Kapital

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Kako rešiti spor brez sodišča?

Alternativno reševanje sporov je v svetu stalna praksa podjetij, s katerimi se ognejo dolgotrajnim, dragim in psiho-fizično izčrpajočim sodnim sporom. V ZDA na sodiščih rešujejo manj kot 2 % gospodarskih sporov. Tukaj predstavljamo, kako lahko morebitne nevšečnosti rešite drugače. Celoten članek preberite na: http://bit.ly/12GmN6F

Vir: Revija Kapital

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VABILO

Evropski pravni inštitut (ELI) hub v Sloveniji in Evropski center za reševanje sporov (ECDR) vabita vse člane ELI, sodnike in ostale zainteresirane pravnike na

POSVET

o predlaganih ustavnih spremembah v poglavju o sodstvu z vidika standardov Sveta Evrope in Evropske Unije o neodvisnosti sodstva

Posvet bo potekal v prostorih ECDR, Tomšičeva 6, v Ljubljani v sredo, 17. 5. 2023 s pričetkom ob 17 uri.

 

Zaradi prostorskih omejitev je potrebna predhodna prijava udeležencev na elektronski naslov info@ecdr.si.

Spremljanje posveta bo omogočeno tudi preko spletne zoom povezave. Obvestilo o povezavi bodo udeleženci prejeli po potrditvi prijave udeležbe.

 

Program posveta:

 

17.00-17.05
Uvodni nagovor organizatorja posveta (Katarina Kresal, predsednica ECDR in so-predsedujoča ELI hub-u v Sloveniji)

 

17.05-17.25
Predstavitev mnenja in stališč Strokovne skupine Ustavne komisije Državnega zbora o osnutku Ustavnega zakona EPA 299-IX

(Aleš Zalar, poročevalec Strokovne skupine Ustavne komisije in član Sveta ELI)

 

17.25-17.45
Predstavitev osnutka ELI Mount Scopus evropskih standardov neodvisnosti sodstva

(izr. prof. dr. Boštjan Zalar, višji sodnik-svetnik, član Posvetovalnega odbora v projektu ELI-Mount Scopus European Standards of Judicial Independence)

 

17.45-18.30
Razprava udeležencev posveta

Vljudno vabljeni!

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ITF, ECDR IN OSTALI PARTNERJI Z DONACIJO MINISTRSTVA ZA ZUNANJE ZADEVE RS IZVAJAJO PROJEKT ŠOLSKE IN VRSTNIŠKE MEDIACIJE V BOSNI IN HERCEGOVINI

Cilj projekta je opolnomočiti učitelje in vrstnike, da medsebojno samostojno rešujejo konfliktne situacije ter s tem krepijo strpnost, dialog in enakopravnost.

  

Na področju Brčkega, Doboja in Gračanice v Bosni in Hercegovini (BiH) se je pričel izvajati projekt "Šolska in vrstniška mediacija v Bosni in Hercegovini 2019/2020" v sodelovanju z osnovnimi šolami. Projekt financira Ministrstvo za zunanje zadeve Republike Slovenije (MZZ), izvajata pa ga ITF Ustanova za krepitev človekove varnosti (ITF) in Evropski center za reševanje sporov (ECDR). Osrednje projektne aktivnosti, bodo potekale od julija 2019 do februarja 2020. Osnovni cilj projekta je prenos znanja in izvajanja mediacijskih metod, ki se lahko uporabljajo pri reševanju vsakodnevnih konfliktnih situacij, ki se pojavljajo med učenci in učitelji, kot tudi med vrstniki samimi. Sodelujoči se bodo naučili komunikacijskih veščin, ki jih bodo lahko koristno uporabili tudi v nadaljnjem življenju. Projekt šolske in vrstniške mediacije je v BiH še posej pomemben, saj se z reševanjem konfliktov na konstruktiven in miroljuben način pomembno krepi medetnična in medkulturna strpnost ter dialog za izgradnjo trajnostnega miru v pokonfliktnih in tranzicijskih družbah.

 

ITF in ECDR bosta v sklopu projekta šolske in vrstniške mediacije učitelje z interaktivnimi metodami in praktičnim znanjem usposobila za šolske mediatorje, kar bodo lahko pričeli takoj izvajati v izobraževalnih ustanovah, kjer delujejo. Alternativni način razmišljanja in aktivacija učencev imata pozitiven vpliv na vzgojno dinamiko in na šolsko klimo, saj na tak način šola spodbuja in razvija sposobnosti strpnega razreševanja konfliktov. Pri vrstniški mediaciji gre za proces, v katerem sta udeležena vsaj dva učenca, med katerima je prišlo do nesoglasja ali spora. Obe strani se naučita, da nastalo situacijo obravnavata na miren, strpen in produktiven način, ki lahko pripelje do konkretne prostovoljno in dogovorno dosežene rešitve. Reševanje spora velja za uspešno, če sta učenca preko komunikacije spor obvladala, če ob koncu nad rešitvijo čutita zadovoljstvo in če sta se iz nastale situacije naučila kaj uporabnega za svoje življenje. Pri doseganju tega cilja jima pomagata eden ali dva vrstnika, ki sta usposobljena za izvajanje vrstniške mediacije.

 

ECDR je tokrat zadolžen za sistemsko implementacijo zakonskih določil v vzgoji in izobraževanju, analizo pravilnikov v vzgoji in izobraževanju ter pripravo predloga za umestitev mediacije v VIZ.

 

 

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 OKROGLA MIZA O STALIŠČU EVROPSKE UNIJE O SINGAPURSKI KONVENCIJI O MEDIACIJI

 

 

 

ELI hub Slovenija, ki deluje v okviru Evropskega centra za reševanje sporov (ECDR) je bil soorganizator pomembnega Mednarodnega posveta »Okrogla miza o stališču Evropske unije o Singapurski konvenciji o mediaciji«, ki je potekala 18.6.2021

Singapurska konvencija vzpostavlja enotna pravila glede izvrševanja sporazumov o poravnavah sklenjenih v mednarodnih trgovinskih mediacijah.

Na okrogli mizi so sodelovali mnogi ugledni mednarodni strokovnjaki s področja mediacije. Zbrane poslušalce je uvodoma nagovorila ga. Katarina Kresal, sopredsedujoča ELI HUB Slovenija, g. Aleš Zalar, prav tako sopredsedujoč ELI HUB Slovenija, pa je okroglo mizo moderiral.

V kolikor se vam ni uspelo udeležiti »Okrogle mize o stališču Evropske unije o Singapurski konvenciji o mediaciji«, ki je potekala 18.6., si lahko na preberete poročilo z le te.

 

 

6 March 2022

 

Dr. Herman Verbist ()

 

Report on “Roundtable on the Position of the European Union on the Singapore Convention on Mediation” organized on 18 June 2021 by the European Law Institute (ELI) Slovenian hub and the Forum for International Concilation and Arbitration (FICA)

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On 18 June 2021, a “Roundtable on the Position of the European Union on the Singapore Convention on Mediation” was organized by the European Law Institute (ELI) Slovenian hub () and the Forum for International Concilation and Arbitration (FICA) (). The roundtable was organized online with the technical assistance of the Institute of Small and Micro States (ISMS) of Victoria University of Wellington.

 

 

i)            Introduction - Background

 

The United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements resulting from Mediation (the “Singapore Convention”) was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 20 December 2018 and opened for signature in Singapore on 7 August 2019 (). Forty-six countries signed the Convention on 7 August 2019 in Singapore, on the day it opened for signatures (). On the day of the roundtable, 18 June 2021, 54 countries had signed the Convention () and 6 countries had ratified the Convention (). Meanwhile, 55 countries have signed the Convention and 9 countries have ratified the Convention (). Pursuant to Article 14, the Singapore Convention shall enter into force six months after the deposit of the third instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval, or accession. Following the deposit of the instrument of ratification by Qatar on 12 March 2020, the Singapore Convention has entered into force on 12 September 2020 (). Until now, the Singapore Convention on Mediation has not been signed by any of the Memer States of the European Union.

 

The Roundtable organized by the ELI Slovenian hub and FICA on 18 June 2021 wished to hear from several experts in the field what keeps the European Union or its member states from signing the Singapore Convention on Mediation.

 

Moderators of the webinar were Ales Zalar, former Minister of Justice of Slovenia and co-chairman of the Slovenian hub of the European Law Institute, and Herman Verbist, co-chair of the Forum for International Conciliation and Arbitration.

 

The webinar was attended by 87 persons residing in many different countries in the world.

 

Welcome words were expressed by Sir Michael Burton, President of FICA, and Ms. Katarina Kresal, co-chair of the ELI hub in Slovenia.

 

ii)            Statement of Portuguese Minister for Justice as President-in-Office of EU Council in area of Justice

 

Thereupon, a message of the Portuguese Minister for Justice, as President-in-Office of the EU Council in the area of Justice, was read. The Portuguese Minister for Justice had been invited to participate in the roundtable discussion. In the message, with which she declined the invitation, the Portuguese Minister for Justice indicated that the Singapore Convention has not been signed until now by any of the EU Member States and that there have been no discussions at a technical level as to decide whether this is a legal instrument of exclusive competence of the Union or whether there is shared competence of the EU with its Member States. In addition, a discussion should also be promoted in the EU to assess the interest and opportunity of accession to the said Convention. The Portuguese Minister for Justice pointed out, furthermore, that no discussion had so far taken place within the Council at Ministers of Justice level, meaning that she was not in a position to express any official position of the Council at the round table.

 

The roundtable was divided in two parts of one hour each with the following experts participating :

 

i)    In the first part of the roundtable with the topic “The reflection process of the European Commission”, the following experts participated :  

 

• Dr. Norel Rosner, Legal and Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission;
• Ms Corinne Montineri, Legal Officer in the International Trade Law Office of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL);     
• Ms Natalie Morris-Sharma, former chair of UNCITRAL Working Group II which drafted the Singapore Convention, and Deputy Senior State Counsel, International Affairs Division, Attorney-General’s Chambers, Singapore;
• Ms Diana Wallis, Former Vice-President of the European Parliament, Former President of the European Law Institute, senior lecturer at the University of Hull;
• Dr Rimantas Simaitis, Chairman of the CEPEJ-GT-MED of the Council of Europe;              

 

In this first part of the roundtable, the following questions were discussed :

• Is the accession to the Singapore Convention an exclusive jurisdiction of the EU or is it a shared competence of the EU and Member States?
• To what extent would the Singapore Convention benefit EU stakeholders?
• Developing mediation policies and practices in Europe.
• The views of States that signed the Singapore Convention.

 

ii)  In the second part of the roundtable with the topic “What is the impact of the Singapore Convention on the EU laws and policies?”, the following experts participated :  

 

• Dr Cathérine Kessedjian, former Deputy Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law; Professor emerita, University Panthéon-Assas Paris II ;
• Dr Nadja Alexander, Professor at Singapore Management University;        
• Dr Dr hc Thomas Pfeiffer, Professor at Heidelberg University, president of the European Law Institute Special Interest Group on Dispute Resolution;           
• Mr Gordon Humphreys, Chairperson at the European Union Intellectual Property Office’s Board of  Appeal, and Mediator in the EUIPO’s ADR service;     
• Dr. Norel Rosner, Legal and Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission;

 

In this second part of the roundtable, the following questions were discussed :

• Does the Singapore Convention interfere with the EU internal regulatory framework (as REIO)?
• The role of the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements 2005 or the Hague Judgments Convention 2019.

 

iii)            Dr Norel Rosner on the EU Position on the Singapore Convention on Mediation

 

Dr. Norel Rosner (Legal and Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission) started the roundtable discussion by pointing out that since the discussion on the Singapore Convention on Mediation had started in 2015, the European Union has been sceptical about the added value of this project. He explained that this was not because the European Union did not believe in ADR but, on the contrary, because the EU believes in ADR. He thereby referred to the Directive on Mediation which the EU had adopted in 2008 () and added that other examples could be mentioned, in the area of consumer litgation, showing that the EU is at the forefront of ADR. The reasons why the EU is sceptical about the Singapore Convention is because of the special place which settlement agreements have in many legal systems of the EU Member States. He stressed that in many legal systems of the EU Member States a settlement agreement is regarded as a contract and is enforceable as a contract. It is based on the will of the parties like any contract and a failure to enforce it means that the will of the parties to engage in such a contractual relationship does not exist. Also, in some legal systems of the EU Members States, settlement agreements can ony be enforced after they have been validated by national courts. Because of this specifical situation, the EU thought that an instrument like the Singapore Convention is in fact not needed. However, the EU participated constructively in the discussion on the elaboration of the Convention in UNCITRAL Working Group II. The EU agreed on a dual track approach which consisted in preparing concurrently a Convention on International Settlement Agreements resulting from Mediation and an amendment to the Model Law on International Commercial Conciliation and was intended to accommodate the different levels of experience with mediation in different jurisdictions and to provide States with consistent standards on the cross-border enforcement of international settlement agreements resulting from mediation, without creating any expectation that interested States may adopt either instrument. This dual track approach was also enshrined in the UN Resolution of 20 December 2018 that adopted the Convention ().

 

Now that there is a Convention in place the question has to be answered whether the position taken thus far by the EU has to be changed. The EU therefore intends to engage in discussions with stakeholders to see where they stand on the question whether either the Convention or the Model Law can be beneficial. Moreover, there is the question of competence. As the letter of the Portuguese Minister for Justice has set out, there have been no discussions at a technical level as to decide whether this is a legal instrument of exclusive competence of the Union or whether there is shared competence of the EU with its Member States. The EU Commission has made its internal analysis and believes that it has competence, but it must still be decided whether this competence is exclusive. If necessary, the European Court of Justice will have to decide this, if it is asked to do so, as happened already a few times in the past. This is based on Article 3(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ()  and it has to do with the overlap in the scope of application between the EU Directive of 2008 and the Singapore Convention on Mediaton.

 

Furthermore, some specific points can be mentioned. Article 6 of the European Mediation Directive speaks about enforcement only with the agreement of both parties (). So, there is no unilateral enforcement foreseen. But the Singapore Convention goes a step further and allows enforcement at the request of one party alone. Article 5 of the European Mediation Directive deals with applicable law (). In fact, the freedom of the parties to choose the applicable law in the EU is not unlimited. There are certain limitations for certain types of contracts (). Finally, it must be observed that the Singapore Convention does not contain a reciprocity reservation. It is unusual for an international instrument in civil justice not to address the issue of reciprocity. It is understandable in the given circumstances that it may be difficult to pinpoint physically to a location where a settlement agreement is coming from. In this way, somehow, the Singapore Convention looks into the future, but it is unusal not to have reciprocity, even as a reservation. Article 8(1) of the Singapore Convention provides the only two reservations which States can make when signing and ratifying the Singapore Convention, one of which being that the Convention will only apply on the basis of party autonomy ().

 

iv)            Corinne Montineri on the motivation of States having signed the Singapore Convention on Mediation

 

Corinne Montineri (Legal Officer in the International Trade Law Office of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)) explained the motivation of the States having signed the Singapore Convention on Mediation. UNCITRAL observed that the decisions by States to adopt the Convention was motivated by considerations at different levels. The Convention applies to businesses and it has therefore been seen in different parts of the world that business organizations were asking the government to give consideration to adopt the Convention, because enforcement of a settlement agreement was the missing part of using mediation in an efficient manner to solve disputes. As mediation is really a means to solve disputes while also protecting the business relations, it contributes to producing savings in the administration of justice of states. Moreover, mediation is seen as contributing to the sustainable development goals and the UN General Assembly resolution on the Singapore Convention on Mediation expressed the conviction that the Convention will contribute to the development of harmonious international economic relations. In parallel to the Convention, also a new chapter of the Model Law dealing with the enforcement of settement agreements was prepared, because in many States there is legislation needed for implementing the Convention and for avoiding contradictions with existing legislation.

 

As regards the question of the absence of reciprocity in the Convention, this was discussed during the preparation of the Singapore Convention as the New York Convention does contain a reciprocity reservation (). In the context of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (“ISDS”), there is no exclusion of settlement agreements unless the States when signing and ratifying the Convention make a reservation pursuant to Article 8(1) excluding the Convention to States or governmental agencies or persons acting on behalf of a governmental agency. Sofar, Belarus, Iran and Saudi Arabia have made this reservation (). A lot of countries in many parts of the world have already signed the Convention including the United States of America and China. Many countries which are partners of the European Union already signed the Convention. It could be beneficial for the European businesses in the U.S. if the EU would also join the Convention. The very active role of the EU delegation during the preparation of the Convention has been much appreciated and there are many provisions in the Convention that reflect really the input by the EU and its Member States.  

 

v)            Natalie Morris-Sharma on the challenges encoutered during the discussion on the Singapore Convention in UNCITRAL Working Group II

 

Ms. Natalie Morris-Sharma (former chair of UNCITRAL Working Group II which drafted the Singapore Convention, and Deputy Senior State Counsel, International Affairs Division, Attorney-General’s Chambers, Singapore) explains that the Singapore Convention is a product of multilateral negotiations between more than 150 persons in the room with different legal, cultural, linguistic and professional backgrounds, who had to deal with delicate issues. She sets out that five issues were the most difficult, and they were dealt with in an eventual compromise package that allowed the delegations to arrive at an overall agreement.

 

The first difficulty was that the issue of legal effect of the term recognition is understood differently across various jurisdictions internationally. While the term recognition is familiar in the context of the New York Convention, just like the term enforcement, the question arose how to deal with the term recognition in the context of the Singapore Convention without using the term. In the Singapore Convention a descriptive approach was taken, to capture how the obligations contained in the settlement agreement can be invoked as a shield to prove that the matter has already been resolved (in additon to functioning as a sword in the event of enforcement).

The second issue was the treatment of judgments and arbitral awards. In order to avoid mutiple bites of the cherry, the Singapore Convention excludes from its scope of application the settlements contained in judgments or in arbitral awards that meet certain criteria. As there were concerns that there might be overlaps between the Singapore Convention and the Hague Judgments Convention or the New York Convention, the drafting of the Convention had to avoid overlaps while not creating gaps.           

A third issue concerned the misconduct of the mediator (). The fourth issue concerned a possible reservation that the Convention would only be applicable if the parties consent thereto. And the fifth difficulty concerned the form of the instrument. Accordingly, the Working Group elaborated in parallel a Convention and a new Chapter for the Model Law on Mediation.

 

The Convention also addressed the specific interests of regional economic integration organizations (REIOs). The inclusion of Article 12 in the Singapore Convention will facilitate the EU and its Member States to become a party to the Convention. It expressly permits REIOs signing and ratifying the Convention to make a declaration specifying the matters of competence that have been transferred. Subsequent changes to the distribution of competence must also be promptly notified. Crucially, there is one paragraph in this provision for two scenarios in case there are conflicting rules of the REIO. A first scenario concerns a situation where relief is sought under the Singapore Convention in a state of an REIO, and where in that context there are no factors qualifying the mediated settlement agreement as “international”, as there is no connection to a state outside the REIO. If the REIO has conflicting rules that would apply in such scenario, then the Singapore Convention will not apply. A second scenario concerns the recognition of foreign judgments between Member States of an REIO and so, for instance, if a Court of an EU Member State renders a judgment granting or denying relief, then other Member States would be obliged to recognize the judgment, rather than applying the regime of the Singapore Convention ().   

 

Regarding the need for the Singapore Convention, prior to the Singapore Convention there were problems with respect to enforcement of international settlement agreements in some jurisdictions. For example, within the EU there were problems with having notary deeds enforced using normal procedures. To enable the enforcement of mediated settlement agreements, sometimes execution proceedings were used. The systems are different across jurisdictions and this makes it very complex, particularly in today’s complicated world of cross border commercial relationship. For European companies it is not just important to consider enforcement within the EU, but also enforcement outside the EU. Difficulties with cross border enforcement have been cited in many surveys as a primary reason for reticence over the use of mediation to resolve disputes in the first place. There is still a pre-existing desire to have international settlement agreements enforced in a crossborder context and even without the Singapore Convention. Parties have relied on multiple vehicles, including vehicles such as an award by consent so that they can rely on the network provided by the New York Convention on the enforcement and recognition of foreign arbitral awards. But there are inherent uncertainties with this approach. Some of the major economies in the world have meanwhile signed the Singapore Convention. With the signature of the Convention by Brazil, a total number of 54 states have thus far signed the Convention (). Ms. Morris-Sharma concluded by expressing the hope that the European Union as a major capital exporter would sign on to the Convention in the interest of promoting certainty for the use of mediation on the international stage.

 

vi)            Diana Wallis on the challenge to put the Singapore Convention on the political agenda in the European Union

 

Ms Diana Wallis (Former Vice-President of the European Parliament, Former President of the European Law Institute, senior lecturer at the University of Hull) explained how members of the European Parliament can put the Singapore Convention on Mediation on the political agenda. First of all, as was set out by Norel Rosner, the initiative to sign on to an international Convention must be taken by the European Commission. But, since the Lisbon Treaty, the European Parliament has the right to be informed during negotiatons and to be consulted or to consent on international agreements. The whole area of mediation is one that is very attractive to the European Parliament and very attractive to individual Members of Parliament given all the issues that will need to be addressed post-pandemic. Moreover, mediation helps to increase international trade sustainability. There is no reason why this should not find resonance with the European Parliament. The Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament has always shown readiness to hold hearings and to push the idea of mediation. Looking at the study made by Giuseppe de Palo and his team (), the European Parliament has always been very active in wanting to hear about how mediation is fairing following on the Mediation Directive itself and seeing what might come next. A hearing could be organized so that the matter is discussed within the Parliament. It is also possible for a Committee to decide to make a so called own initiative report on a subject. This can result in a Committee report, which then goes to the Plenary session of the Parliament, where it is voted, and which could in theory ask the Commission to act. The European Commission would then have to respond and take action or give reasons why it would not take action. The European Parliament does not have a right of initiative technically, but this own initiative report is a very strong “weapon” nevertheless. There also ways and means of tabling written questions to the European Commission, and indeed to the Council. Also oral questions can be asked at the Question Time, which likewise require an answer. So there are plenty of opportunities to have the issue discussed within the European Parliament.      

 

vii)            Dr Rimantas Simaitis on the perspective of the Council of Europe on the Singapore Convention on Mediation

 

Dr Rimantas Simaitis (Chairman of the Council of Europe European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice Working Group on Mediation (CEPEJ-GT-MED)) gave some personal insights from the perspective of the Council of Europe on the Singapore Convention on mediation. The Council of Europe has three main pilllars: human rights, democracy and rule of law. Mediation is mainly related to the efficiency of human rights into the protection and efficiency of the rule of law. For this reason, the subject of mediation is mainly addresses by the Commission for the Efficiency of Justice. The Council of Europe has no plan to launch and design a hard law instrument in the field of mediation, such as a Convention. In the last 20 years, however, the Council of Europe has developed soft law instruments in the field of mediation. In 2002, the Committee of Ministers issued a recommendation to the Member States in order to facilitate mediation in civil matters whenever appropriate (). Guiding principles concerning mediation in civil matters were published in order to promote mediation in civil and commercial matters (). One of the last instruments of CEPEJ, which directly refers to the Singapore Convention on Mediation, is an instrument on lawmaking issues called European Handbook for Mediation Lawmaking, which was adopted by CEPEJ on 14 June 2019 (). The Handbook expresses a very optimistic and positive view on the Singapore Convention and on the UNCITRAL Model law on Mediation and took this position in order to promote a high degree of harmonization among the domestic laws on mediation.  

 

There is a problem, however, with regard to of the European Union and its Member States in the field of mediation. The European Union has the Mediation Directive, which is not a regulatory instrument. The European Union is in discussion about what to do in that context.  Some Member States show that they retain their individual competencies. They accept that the European Union makes recommendations and provides a soft law approach, but these States wish their own decisions. Dr. Simaitis is of the opinion that this discussion is more of a technical nature and about sharing competencies, but he has not heard any bad remarks about the content of the Singapore Convention on Mediation. He hopes and believes that in a couple of years all the European Member States will ratify the Convention or that the European Union will do so.

 

viii)         Questions from the audience

 

The persons attending the webinar could make comments or raise questions in the chat. A first comment was made by a person having participated in the work of UNCITRAL  Working Group II who said that the text of the Convention, including Article 5, had been drafted very carefully, sometimes intentionally using ambiguous terms to allow for diverse interpretations by domestic courts, similar to what happens today in practice with the New York Convention. The question was raised whether this should not address potential concerns, as Article 5 would allow flexibility for courts in EU Member States in applying the Singapore Convention. Another comment in the chat was that the Convention does not provide for reciprocity.

 

Dr. Norel Rosner of the European Commission did not wish to add anything to what he had said about the issue of reciprocity. As regards the comment made on Article 5 of the Convention, Dr. Rosner responded that the discussions in UNCITRAL Working Group II were in the beginning much more fundamental before they became more technical on Article 5 (). It is basically a fundamental question of policy, whether Article 5 is something beneficial. He thinks in this context that the language of Article 5 is indeed a bit ambiguous and that this is, as it is called in Europe, constructive and greedy. This means that it can be used either way by either camp, meaning by those opposing the Convention and by those who are in favour of the Convention. Some would say you get more legal certainty with this Convention and some would say the opposite. This provision would allow different interpretations.

                

ix)                         Prof. Cathérine Kessedjian on the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements and the Hague Judgments Convention  

 

Prof. Cathérine Kessedjian (former Deputy Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law; Professor emerita, University Panthéon-Assas Paris II) started the second part of the roundtable by pointing out that there is absolutely no overlap between the Singapore Convention on Mediation and the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements of 2005 () or the Hague Judgments Convention of 2019 (). As she had attended the session of UNCITRAL Working Group II as an observer, she stressed that the negotiators of the Singapore Convention on Mediation have been very careful in order not to encroach into the scope of the Hague Conventions. During the negotiation of the Singapore Convention, the Hague Judgments Convention 2019 was still a work in progress, but there was already experience with the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements 2005. The provisions on mediation in the Hague Convention of Choice of Court Agreements 2005 () and in the Hague Judgments Convention 2019 () are similar. The Hague Conventions are only interested in what is going on in courts and are not interested in what conventional mediation is doing. Conventional mediation is a completely different animal. The Hague Conventions do not provide any rule for conventional mediation. The Singapore Convention deals with this type of mediation. Judicial settlements which are dealt with in the Hague Conventions are settlements obtained while the proceedings were pending before a court. Such settlements are embodied in judgments rendered by courts. This is not at all what the Singapore Convention is looking at. Therefore, there is no overlap. Another situation is where the parties reached a settlement in a conventional mediation and ask the court to transform it into a judgment. In such case, because it is the will of the parties, it is not a settlement, but a judgment. It does not really matter thereby whether the judgment was actually based on the settlement. Article 12 of the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements 2005 and Article 11 of the Hague Judgments Convention 2019 provide a confirmation thereof, because both these provisions on judicial settlements must have the effect akin to a judgment.

 

However, there is a problem or a gap, namely one aspect that has not been dealt with neither in the Singapore Convention nor in the Hague Convention, and which has not been seen or, if it was seen, may have been put under the carpet. This concerns a situation where, in spite of a mediation agreement between the parties, one of the parties or both parties have gone to a court and the court has rendered the “judgment” in violation of the mediation agreement. Prof. Kessedjian considers that in such case the parties have changed their agreement and the later will of the parties has substituted their earlier will and, therefore, the judgment can be enforced. Prof. Kessedjian still sees a gap, if one of the parties in such case would raise a plea before the court invoking the agreement to mediate and if the court would render a judgment in such case. She would have preferred that the Hague Judgments Convention 2019 would have provided that the party who wanted to go to mediation and who was not successful in the court procedure could file an opposition and that this would be a ground for the enforcing court not to enforce the judgment that was rendered in violation of the mediation agreement. This problem also exists with the New York Convention on Arbitration and European Law. This is a very difficult problem, and she therefore understands why this was not really raised.         

 

x)                         Prof. Nadja Alexander on the use of mediation in international dispute resolution and the differences between the Singapore Convention on Mediation and the New York Convention on Arbitration  

 

Prof. Nadja Alexander (Singapore Management University) pointed out that it results from surveys on international commercial dispute resolution () she has done with SIDRA () that arbitration remains the dispute resolution mechanism of choice among the respondent users (87%), followed by litigation (58%), hybrid dispute resolution (30%), mediation (27%) and others (neutral evaluation, adjudication)(14%). She explained that when  hybrid dispute resolution, which includes mediation, is added together with mediation as dispute resolution method, mediation is used about as much as litigation by companies in order to settle disputes. It therefore matters to focus not only on mediation as a stand alone method but also on mixed mode dispute resolution in order to assess the importance of mediation in the international space with respect to the Singapore Convention. There is a group of users who currently use primarily arbitration or a mixed mode dispute resolution method because of the lack of a mechanism like the Singapore Convention. It will be interesting to see in the coming years whether there will be a shift in the use of stand alone mediation as a consequence of the Singapore Convention.    

 

The Singapore Convention contains no provision on the enforcement of mediation agreements or agreements to mediate, whereas the New York Convention on the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards deals with arbitration agreements as well. This is not surprising because there is no concept of seat of mediation in the sense as there is a seat of the arbitration. It is not always easy to pinpoint where the mediation takes place. It can take place in a number of jurisdictions and it can also take place online. Also the place where the mediation is signed off may have implications for reciprocity. As a result, there is no single court having exclusive jurisdiction to set aside, for example, or invalidate an international mediated settlement agreement.  So, a mediated settlement agreement under the Convention can be enforced in a state that is a contracting party to the Convention, irrespective of where it was signed. There is no concept of state of origin in that sense, which is quite different from the New York Convention. The Singapore Convention provides under Article 5(1)(d) that a ground for refusal can relate to the terms of the mediated settlement agreement in the sense that enforcement would be inconsisent with the terms of the agreement (). This allows parties to opt out and this enhances party autonomy. An opt out regime is not foreseen under the New York Convention. Under the Singpore Convention two reservations can be made by contracting Parties() and can be withdrawn at any time. One of the reservations allows contracting Parties when adhering to the Convention to declare that the Convention will operate as an opt in regime. This means that parties to a mediation would have to write in their mediated settlement agreement that they want the Singapore Convention to apply. If that would have been the default regime, one would get lost. Therefore, the direct enforcement regime has been foreseen in the Convention. The EU Directive on Mediation does not offer a direct enforcement mechanism and does not harmonize the enforcement of mediated settlement agreements. The Singapore Convention can offer this. The EU Medation Directive deals with a couple of other points, such as confidentiality to some extent.

 

xi)                         Prof. Thomas Pfeiffer on the compentence of the EU in the field of mediation and on the relationship between the EU Mediation Directive and the Singapore Convention

 

Prof. Thomas Pfeiffer (Heidelberg University; president of the European Law Institute Special Interest Group on Dispute Resolution) points out that the competence of the European Union in the field of mediation is based on Article 81(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (). However, this provision almost seems to indicate that there is no alternative dispute resolution in the European Union. This could be broadened and the Europe Union should take more action to promote ADR.

 

The EU Mediation Directive 2008 contains in Article 6 a provision on the recogniton of the negotiated settlement (). However, this is a Directive and not a Regulation of the European Union, and that makes a big difference. The question is what the relationship is between Article 6 of the EU Mediation Directive, on the one hand, and the Singapore Convention if the EU would acceed to it, on the other hand. From a conflicts of law perspective, in case there are different jurisdictional regimes, it is broadly recognized – and that is a matter of legal logic – that it is possible to have either this regime or the other. If two regimes apply at the same time, this raises conflict difficulties of all kinds. However, this is very different when it comes to mutual recognition, because in mutual recognition there are usually many conquering regimes and usually all instruments contain a clause stating that there must be recognition if the requirements are met under one regime and that there is no objection against recognition under another instrumental regime. The same applies to both instruments here. Article 7 of the Singapore Convention provides that it does not want to interfere with any other recognition regime () and the same is true for Article 6(4) of the EU Mediation Directive ().  The EU Mediation Directive does not bar any recognition under any other regime. So, technically it would very well be possible to have both. Prof. Pfeiffer submits that changing the EU Mediation Directive might be a good idea, but he does not see technically that this is a must. Moreover, there is an interplay with other aspects of European law, such as the Rome I Regulation on the choice of law regime (). The European Union made no reservation on the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements. This was so in the old regime. It is not appropriate to go back to this. He observes that the solutions may be different with respect to the Rome I Regulation, but he thinks that Article 5 of the Singapore Convention provides an appropriate answer. More importantly, even if there would be a difference as regards the standards applied so far, this would not bar the European Union from acceeding to the Singapore Convention on Mediation. As regards the question of competence for signing the Singapore Convention, Prof. Pfeiffer considers that it is still an open question whether the competence of the European Union is an exclusive competence under Article 3(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union () or a shared competence under Article 4 of the Treaty ().     

 

xii)                         Mr. Gordon Humphreys on mediations conducted by the European Union Intellectual Property Office and the significance of the Singapore Convention  

 

Mr. Gordon Humphreys (Chairperson at the European Union Intellectual Property Office’s Board of  Appeal, and Mediator in the EUIPO’s ADR service) set out that the European Union Intellectual Property office is based in Alicante, Spain and that it is the largest of the 34 decentralized agencies of the European Union. Under the umbrella of the World Intellectual Property Office, it is part of the international registration system both for trademarks and for designs as well as the sole entity responsible for the registration of EU trademarks and designs. Stakeholders are, purely speaking, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the intellectual property offices of all the EU Member States, all of which sit in the management board of the European Union Intellectual Property Office. The users are individuals or companies from the European Union or from anywhere else in the world. In 2020, the EUIPO received a total of 177.000 trademark applications and 116.000 design applications (). Most applications were filed by China (with nearly 29.000 trade mark applications), followed by Germany, then the United States (with 13.000 applications), the United Kingdom (11.000 applications) and Switzerland (4.000 applications). These figures alone indicate that nearly 40% of all applications came from outside the European Union, without even accounting for  applications from countries like Brazil. There is a similar picture for applications for designs. The conclusion is therefore that China and the United States of Amercia are major users of the EUIPO system in the field of trademarks and designs. This will still increase with all the Free Trade Agreements that the EU has been signing with third countries, including the United States and China and which contain important intellectual property provisions.

 

Since 2011, the EUIPO has been offering mediation to parties engaging in appeal proceedings, because of the large volume of disputes it has to handle. With a combined figure of nearly 300.000 trademark and design applications per annum at the EUIPO, it is inevitable that some of these applications will conflict with earlier similar intellectual property rights – be they earlier trademarks, designs or copyrights that exist in the European Union. As regards designs, the earlier right can even be an earlier design disclosed anywhere in the world, provided that it would be known to the trade circles based in the European Union. In reality, the EU trade circles are deemed to know everything that goes on worldwide if prior art is published in the official publication of an IP office somewhere in the world. So, arguing that publication made, for example, in the Mongolian trademark and design bulletin of a particular design of a toothbrush would not be known to the relevant EU trade circles, is unlikely to be accepted as an argument for non disclosure of an earlier design. There are a lot of cases that are decided at the first instance by the EUIPO  from the conflicts that are generated by all these applications and these decisions can be appealed to the Board of Appeal, where Mr. Humphreys is working. The decisions of the EUIPO Board of Appeal can in turn be appealed to the General Court of the European Union. Such appeals constitute about one third of all cases now handled by the General Court (). In exceptional cases, the appeals can even be submitted to the Court of Justice of the European Union. Such proceedings can take a long time. In 2020, more than 22.000 trademark disputes were initiated. Many of them were solved by negotiations conducted between the lawyers. However, there were 8.000 trademark disputes going through the EUIPO first instance, and then 2.500 disputes were submitted to the EUIPO Board of Appeal and more than 320 were submitted to the General Court of the European Union. That means that there are potentially three levels of decision-making and demonstrates that there is thus an enormous volume of work that has not yet gone to mediation. The EUIPO has been really working on making mediation as attractive as possible as, commercially-speaking, it is not acceptable to spend about three to four years going through all these proceedings. In the worst case scenario, there have been cases ongoing for 25 years. This is not beneficial for business. The advantage of mediation is that it can combine all disputes between the same parties wheresoever they occur into one process, provided at least one of the disputed rights is the subject matter of proceedings before the EUIPO. This can even include infringement proceedings between the same parties before national courts or intellectual property offices anywhere in the world and involving any IP right that can all be brought together and solved through a mediated settlement at the offices of the EUIPO or elsewhere. The legal certainty and the huge saving of time and costs brought by a mediated settlement agreement is phenomenal. The more enforcement of the mediated settlement agreement is facilitated, the more attractive it becomes, as there is still a perception problem. Users are concerned that it will be very complicated to enforce a mediated agreement against a Chinese party or against an American party. Given that the United States and China are both signatories to the Singapore Convention and major users of the EU trademark and design systems, it makes a lot of sense for the European Union to join, because in the proceedings before the EUIPO there will be very often a EU based company on the one side and a Chinese or American one on the other side. Enforcement will be an issue, in particular, if the third country party’s assets are situated outside the European Union. The EU Mediation Directive is great, but it is only helpful on a regional level. Moreover, there are neighbouring countries like Georgia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine and Turkey, where business is also done by EU-based companies and from where applications are filed before the EUIPO. IP and other commercial disputes can and will inevitably arise in this context. Direct enforcement as foreseen in the Singapore Convention is obviously a benefit. The EUIPO has organized a conference on mediation earlier this year in order to promote mediation () and intends to do so every other year. Mediation is extremely beneficial to SMEs in the EU. Those SMEs engage in import and export all over the world and will have disputes with their trading partners involving IP and other commercial matters. To encourage settlement by mediation, enforceability outside the EU must be addressed. Without it, long drawn-out proceedings and considerable legal uncertainty are likely to be the norm.

 

xiii)                         Dr Norel Rosner on further plans of the European Commission on the Singapore Convention on Mediation

 

Dr. Norel Rosner (Legal and Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission) was given the opportunity to react to the different presentations made by the members of the second panel and to give an indication as to how the European Commission plans the reflection process. Dr. Rosner replied that he was very impressed about the numbers of cases of the EUIPO in Alicante. As regards the internal regulatory framework, he underscored that the Singapore Convention addresses this issue in Article 12(4). It contains what is called a disconnection clause, in the sense that it allows an unhindered application of conflicting European rules, but there are two conditions (), namely that the competent authority is in the EU and that both parties to the settlement agreement are within the EU. Moreover, there is the question whether internal EU law should be revisited, in case the EU would take action with regard to the Singapore Convention. This is a political question. Dr. Rosner pointed out that the EU Mediation Directive that was adopted in 2008 was the smallest common denominator among the EU Member States and this explains why Article 6 of the Directive speaks about the agreement of both parties to ask for enforcement. The entry into force of the Singapore Convention brings us one step further. What the Singapore Convention will do in many Member States is that it will make it easier to enforce settlement agreements coming from outside the EU than the enforcement of settlement agreements coming from within the EU. Basically, the situation will then be that, on the one hand, in case there is a settlement agreement between a party from within the EU and a party from outside the EU, the disconnection clause will not apply and, therefore, the Singapore Convention will apply and there will be a unilateral recognition. On the other hand, when the mediated settlement agreement is between parties from the EU, the disconnection clause applies and thus the EU Directive on Mediation will apply and it will be more difficult to enforce the mediated settlement agreement.  

 

In response to the observations made by Professor Pfeiffer on applicable law, Dr. Rosner clarified that nobody is talking about a choice of law clause as a ground of refusal, as this is outdated. When a foreign settlement agreement is submitted for enforcement to a court in the EU, many courts in the EU consider it as a contract and hold that they cannot look at it because it does not come from another EU court and because it was a choice made by the parties. This is wrong without looking at the Rome I Regulation, because arbitration agreements and agreements on the choice of court are excluded from the Rome I Regulation (). There is not a big problem as regards the direct enforcement. The EU participated in the negotiations of the Singapore Convention and, whatever is agreed, there is something that the EU could live with and the Convention does not speak of courts but of competent auhority ().

 

The European Commission has started consultation activities on the Singapore Convention on Mediation, not only with stakeholders but also with the EU Member States. The Commission had several technical discussions with the Member States in this respect. But the Commission wishes to have a full picture and therefore intends to engage ideally before the end of the year 2021 into consultation activities with the broader stakeholders community. This will of course include the mediation community but also, beyond that, the lawyers community, the judges, the business community and possibly also other types of stakholders.

 

 

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On 16 December 2021, the European Commission (Directorate General for Justice and Consumers, Civil Justice Unit) organized an online workshop with experts from EU Member States, the European Parliament and stakeholders from the mediation and legal sectors, the business world as well as the academia. During this workshop, the EU Commission wished to hear the views of the experts and stakeholders on the following questions : i) whether the EU should take action in regard to the Singapore Convention; ii) whether they favour the accession to the Singapore Convention by the European Union; iii) whether they favour an authorisation to be given by the Council following a proposal from the Commission for individual Member States to sign/ratify/accede to the Singapore Convention; iv) whether the adoption of the UNCITRAL model law on mediation by the interested Member States can be an appopriate way forward in this respect. The EU Member States do not all share the same view on acceding to the Singapore Convention. Therefore, the EU Commission will conduct further consultations before deciding whether or not to take further steps.

  

The United Kingdom launched an open consultation on the Singapore Convention on mediation on 2 February 2022 and seeks comments until 1 April 2022 ().

 

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Šola pogajanj bo potekala 4. in 5. marca 2013, v prostorih ECDR, Tomšičeva 6, Ljubljana.

Usposabljanje bo potekalo v angleškem jeziku (brez prevajanja).

Udeleženci usposabljanja bodo prejeli potrdilo o usposabljanju s področja Harvardske šole pogajanj.

Usposabljanje je namenjeno odvetnikom, mediatorjem, pravnikom v gospodarskih družbah in državnih organih, vodilnim delavcem v gospodarskih družbah in ostalim, ki želijo:

- optimizirati možnosti za sklepanje poslov oziroma dogovorov,

- izogniti se nepotrebnim, dragim in zamudnim konfliktom,

- doseči najboljšo možno rešitev kadar se pogajajo.

Cena udeležbe na usposabljanju je 600 EUR. DDV v ceno ni vključen.

Prijave sprejemamo na elektronski naslov info@ecdr.si ali na telefonsko št. 08 205 65 90.

Program | Thierry Garby (CV)

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30. NOVEMBER 2012 – MEDNARODNA KONFERENCA «VZPOSTAVLJANJE USTANOVE ZA MEDIACIJO V REPUBLIKI KAZAHSTAN»

Predstavniki ECDR se bodo 30. novembra 2012 udeležili mednarodne konference z naslovom “Vzpostavljanje institucije za mediacijo v Kazahstanu”, ki bo potekala v Republiki Kazahstan, kjer bomo sodelovali s prispevkoma »Spori in mediacija: Ali in kdaj?«  in »Kdo nosi odgovornost za mediacijska izobraževanja in pripravo mediacijskih trenerjev?«. Namen konference je izmenjava dobrih praks ter njihova morebitna umestitev v institucijo Republike Kazahstan, ki bo skrbela za promocijo in izvajanje mediacije.

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19. NOVEMBER 2012 – AkademYa

Predstavniki ECDR se bodo 19. novembra 2012 ob 18 uri na Pravni Fakulteti v Ljubljani udeležili AkademYe v organizaciji Zavoda Ypsilon. S prispevkom »Prihodnost reševanje sporov pripada alternativnim postopkom« bo ECDR predstavil, kaj povzroča spore na različnih področjih, zakaj sprte strani v sodnih postopkih spora ne morejo rešiti, kakšni so moderni pristopi in postopki reševanja sporov, kateri kriteriji so odločilni pri izbiri ustreznega postopka, kakšne so temeljne razlike med svetovalnimi, posredovalnimi in razsojevalnimi alternativnimi postopki ter kakšen bo v prihodnosti optimalni model reševanje sporov. Predstavitev bo izpostavila tudi primerjave med različnimi sistemi, zlasti pa med ZDA in Evropo.

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1.-2. november 2012 – Mednarodna konferenca “ Evropska mreža mediacij”

Predstavniki ECDR se bodo 1.- 2. novembra udeležili mednarodne konference z naslovom “Evropska mreža mediacij”, ki bo potekala  v Bolgariji. Cilj konference stremi k vzpostavitvi evropske mreže mediatorjev in organizacij, ki se ukvarjajo z mediacijo, z namenom sodelovanja v mednarodnih civilnih postopkih kot tudi izboljšanje dostopov do postopkov alternativnega reševanje sporov. Več podrobnosti o konferenci je dostopnih na spletni strani: http://mediation-net.eu/index.php?lang=en.

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5. in 6. 10. 2012 – UIA svetovni forum mediacijskih centrov

Predstavniki Evropskega centra za reševanje sporov se bodo udeležili Konference svetovnih mediacijskih centrov UIA, ki se bo odvijala 5. in 6. oktobra 2012 v Zagrebu. Z namenom učinkovitejšega reševanja vse pogostejših potrošniških sporov, bomo širši strokovni javnosti predstaviti model reševanja tovrstnih sporov, ki ga izvaja ECDR in temelji na kombiniranem postopku mediacije in arbitraže (med-arb). Na konferenci bodo predstavljene uporabne prednosti tega postopka in razlogi zakaj tovrsten način reševanja sporov za podjetja predstavlja tudi konkurenčno prednost.

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04.10.2012 - MEDIACIJSKI KOKTAJL S COLINOM WALLOM

V prostorih ECDR bo dne 4. oktobra 2012, od 15.00 do 17.00 ure, potekalo predavanje z naslovom: “Mediacijski koktajl s Colinom Wallom”. Colin J. Wall je mediator in trener v Hong Kongu, izvršni direktor Global Mediation Service Ltd. in sopredsednik mednarodnega združenja mediacijskih centrov. Na predavanju nam bo predstavil potencial, ki ga ima mediacija pri sklepanju poslov in izvajanju investicijskih projektov. Pogovor bo potekal v angleškem jeziku, brez prevajanja. Po predavanju pa bomo z gostom tudi sproščeno poklepetali. Kotizacije ni. Udeležbo je potrebno potrditi do ponedeljka, 01. oktobra 2012, na elektronski naslov: info@ecdr.si.

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29. 9. 2012 – MEDNARODNA MEDIACIJSKA KONFERENCA V GORICI

V Gorici (Kinemax, Sala 1, Piazza Vittoria 41, Gorica-Italija) bo 29. septembra 2012 potekala mednarodna mediacijska konferenca: »Čezmejna mediacija v Italiji, Avstriji in Sloveniji«.
Predstavniki ECDR bodo na konferenci sodelovali s prispevkom “Mediation in Slovenia: legal framework and developments”.
Udeležba na konferenci je brez stroškov prijavnine, udeležencem pa bo izdano potrdilo o udeležbi, potekala bo v italijanskem in angleškem jeziku.
Svoje prijave lahko posredujete na elektronski naslov info@mediacija.si.

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24. 9. 2012 - AmCham strokovni posvet o alternativnem reševanju sporov

V sodelovanju z AmCham Slovenija za 24.9.2012 napovedujemo strokovni posvet, na katerem bodo predstavniki Evropskega centra za reševanje sporov govorili o tem, kako učinkovito upravljati s spori in riziki povezanimi z njimi. Na poslovnem kosilu bo kot poseben gost sodeloval tudi Michael McIlwrath, pravni svetovalec pri GE Oil & Gas, ki zastopa podjetje v postopkih reševanja sporov po celem svetu, pa tudi v postopkih pogajanj, mediacije in arbitraže. Je tudi član uprave in bivši predsednik International Mediation Institute (IMI), neprofitne organizacije, ki ima sedež v Haagu in v svetu promovira razvoj mediacije kot poklica. Michael McIlwrath bo predstavil politiko upravljanja, preprečevanja in reševanja sporov pri GE Oil & Gas – zakaj in kako spore rešujejo v alternativnih postopkih in kaj so glavne prednosti takšnega reševanja, še posebej v primerjavi s sodnimi postopki.

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13.9.2012 – 8. interdisciplinarna konferenca Informatika in pravo INPRO 2012

V septembru bo na Pravni fakulteti v Mariboru potekala že 8. Konferenca Informatika in pravo INPRO 2012, ki se jo bodo udeležili tudi predstavniki Evropskega centra za reševanje sporov. Ni naključje, da informatika in pravo postajata iz dneva v dan bolj prepletena v iskanju rešitev, kako z modernimi informacijskimi sistemi omogočiti družbi enostavnejši pristop do pravnih postopkov in učinkovitejšem reševanju le-teh. V prispevku z naslovom »Zakaj, kako, in kdaj izbrati primeren postopek reševanja spora pri ECDR?" bo ECDR predstavil sodobne in inovativne oblike alternativnih postopkov reševanje sporov, ki jih v okviru svoje dejavnosti že izvaja.

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Vabilo na Harvardsko šolo pogajanj

Program usposabljanja o pogajanjih glede interesnih vprašanj ali sporov bo izvajal priznani mednarodni strokovnjak, odvetnik, mediator in predsednik Svetovnega foruma mediacijskih centrov, g. Thierry GARBY.

Šola pogajanj bo potekala 11. in 12. junija 2012, v prostorih ECDR, Tomšičeva 6, Ljubljana.

Usposabljanje bo potekalo v angleškem jeziku (brez prevajanja).

Udeleženci usposabljanja bodo prejeli potrdilo o usposabljanju s področja Harvardske šole pogajanj.

Usposabljanje je namenjeno odvetnikom, mediatorjem, pravnikom v gospodarskih družbah in državnih organih, vodilnim delavcem v gospodarskih družbah in ostalim, ki želijo:

-       optimizirati možnosti za sklepanje poslov oziroma dogovorov,

-       izogniti se nepotrebnim, dragim in zamudnim konfliktom,

-       doseči najboljšo možno rešitev kadar se pogajajo.

Cena udeležbe na usposabljanju je 600 EUR. DDV v ceno ni vključen.

Prijave sprejemamo na elektronski naslov info@ecdr.si ali na telefonsko št. 08 205 65 90.

Usposabljanje bo potekalo v obliki delavnice, zato je število udeležencev omejeno na 20. Prijave bomo prenehali sprejemati, ko bo doseženo polno število udeležencev. Rok za prijavo je 31.5.2012.

 

Program usposabljanja

 

First day: Understanding the mechanisms of negotiations*
Morning: determine your negotiation strategy
08:30 - 10:00	Presentation of the trainers and of the trainees - Their respective experience of conflicts. Introduction to the program,
	Determine your negotiation goal. Understanding what negotiations are and the five different ways they can be resolved. Choose the best solution for your case.
10:00 - 10:15	Coffee break
10:15 - 11:30	How to reach your goal
	Understanding and overcoming the obstacles to an agreement.
	Obstacles to the existence of a negotiation
	Bad relationship: how to restore communication
	Lack of information: how to give/obtain/replace missing information
	Obstacles to the agreement
	Structural obstacles: how to overcome them
	Conflicting interests: how to deal with them - Principled negotiation
	Conflicting values: how to reconcile them - Unprincipled negotiation
11:30 - 13:00	Lunch  Afternoon: Getting ready to negotiate
13:00 - 14:30	Case study: analysis of the case, determination of the negotiation strategy
	Preparing and offering negotiation, Why, when and how to accept or refuse an offer to negotiate, Negotiating the negotiation.
14:30 - 14:45	Coffee break
14:45 - 16:30	Mock negotiation
Second day: At the negotiation table*
08:30 - 10:00	The role of emotions in negotiation.
	Emotional intelligence: how our brain processes emotions and logic. The role of emotions in our behavior in negotiation.
	The three levels of communication. The need for in-depth communication, Exercises
10:00 - 10:15	Coffee break
10:15 - 11:30	How to communicate in negotiation
	Empathic active listening. Exercises.
	Nonviolent communication. Exercises.
11:30 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 14:30	Mock negotiation
14:30 - 14:45	Coffee break
14:45 - 16:30	How to generate positive emotions and control negative emotions
	Mock negotiation
	General debriefing

*Organizator si pridržuje pravico morebitnih sprememb v urniku programa

 

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