Representation of companies by lawyer at the IAC at BelCCI
Our legal office is authorized to represent the interests of residents and foreign customers in the International Arbitration Court (IAC) at the BelCCI (Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry) in Belarus. The lawyers of our company will accompany you at all procedural stages: drafting a statement of action; representation of interests in court in the course of proceedings; enforcement of the IAC decisions in Belarus and abroad.
There are several key advantages. Firstly, the procedural basis for the IAC proceedings is its Regulation; in this connection, a dispute is considered in a more flexible form, at absence of any rigid procedural overregulation.
Secondly, disputing parties will be entitled to choose judges from the recommended list at their own discretion. Judges of the IAC at the BelCCI are reputable lawyers and scientists having large practical experience. All disputes are considered based on the principle of arbitrator’s independence that would exclude any biased attitude on the part of judges towards one of the parties.
Any company (both resident and non-resident) may file an action against its counteragents to the IAC at the BelCCI if a dispute between them has arisen based on a foreign economic contract or any other type of economic relations and, at least, one of the counteragents is located outside Belarus. In the IAC at the BelCCI, non-residents may litigate between themselves; also, domestic companies against each other if they have agreed to choose the Arbitration Court as a judicial authority (arbitration clause).
A decision on a dispute where, at least, one of the parties is a foreign company (non-resident) shall be made within 6 months. If subjects to the proceedings are Belarusian companies, then a decision shall be made within 3 months.
Court sessions in the IAC at the BelCCI are held in the Russian language. If any of the parties does not know Russian, then the court will provide it with the interpreter services.
Documents (written evidence) on the case shall be submitted to the court in the original language without translation. The court will be entitled, on its own initiative or on the initiative of the opposing party, to demand their translation into the Russian language.
The Arbitration Court of Belarus considers disputes according to the standard or simplified procedure. The standard procedure is similar to litigation at the economic courts of Belarus and is performed with participation of disputing parties and application of all ‘procedural tools’. The simplified procedure is similar to writ proceedings with dispute consideration without calling the parties to the court based on written evidence. The simplified procedure is applied exclusively to proceedings between residents with an amount of demands up to 10,000 basic values (approx. equal to $123,188).
Based on a decision of the IAC at the BelCCI in relation to a Belarusian company (resident), the Economic Court issues the court order which, in its turn, will be enforced directly via Enforcement Department at the principal place of business of the debtor or its property, according to the provisions of the Law on Enforcement Proceedings.
It is far easier to enforce the IAC decision in relation to a foreign company (non-resident) than the Economic Court decision because the majority of the developed countries of the world have signed the New York Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, thus, establishing the uniform rules for enforcement of decisions of international arbitration courts in the territory of any state being signatory to the Convention.
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