CRCICA launches its new Arbitration Rules 2024

The Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration is pleased to announce that its new CRCICA Arbitration Rules shall enter into force as from 15 January 2024 (“CRCICA Arbitration Rules 2024”).

Last updated in 2011, the CRCICA Arbitration Rules are amended to meet the needs of users and evolving dispute resolution and trade landscapes. The CRCICA Arbitration Rules 2024 has effectively been adopted by CRCICA’s Board of Trustees on 20 December 2023.

The new CRCICA Arbitration Rules 2024 are still within the spirit of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.  However, the new 2024 Rules include provisions previously undealt with issues, namely online arbitration filing, remote hearings, the law applicable to the arbitration agreement, consolidation of arbitrations, early dismissal of claims, multiple contracts, third party funding, Emergency Arbitrator Rules and Expedited Arbitration Rules, amongst others.

Finally, the Tables of the Administrative Fees and the Fees of the Arbitral Tribunal in Annex 1 to the Rules have been modified to respond to a decade of economic developments, taking into consideration the importance of striking a balance between cost effectiveness and maintaining high quality services to best serve the interests of users.

The CRCICA Arbitration Rules 2024 are available for download in English and Arabic as follows:

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Comparison between the 2011 and 2024 CRCICA Arbitration Rules

For ease of convenience to the arbitration community in showing the new changes applied, CRCICA has prepared an extremely comprehensive comparison between its existing 2011 arbitration Rules and the new 2024 arbitration Rules. The methodology of the comparison is explained in the first comment of the first page of each document in its designated language.

The comparison between the 2011 and 2024 Arbitration Rules are available for download in English and Arabic as follows:

 

Launch events and discussions of the new CRCICA Arbitration Rules 2024 are expected to take place starting from January 2024.