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As part of its services to ICSID Member States and the public, the Secretariat seeks to promote greater awareness of the ICSID dispute process and the development of international law on foreign investment.

The ICSID rules and regulations are the most commonly used procedural rules in investor-State dispute settlement. 

In addition to the arbitration, conciliation and fact-finding procedures provided by the ICSID Convention and Rules, disputing parties may select other alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, such as early neutral evaluation, facilitated negotiation and/or mediation. Although these other…

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ICSID has a full-service hearing centre in Washington, D.C. with three large hearing rooms and six breakout and deliberation rooms.   Features of the hearing centre include:     State-of-the-art video-conferencing, projection, interpretation, recording, sound, and webcasting equipment Large…

  The ICSID Convention entitles each Member State to designate up to four persons to the Panel of Arbitrators and up to four persons to the Panel of Conciliators (Article 12 to 16 of the ICSID Convention). In addition, the Chairman of the Administrative Council of ICSID may designate up to ten…

The Commission must be constituted as soon as possible after registration of a request for conciliation. It is constituted on the date the Secretary-General notifies the parties that all conciliators have accepted their appointments (Article 13 of the Conciliation (Additional Facility) Rules). The…

In conciliation  proceedings, the fees and expenses of conciliators and the administrative charges relating to the use of ICSID’s facilities are borne equally by the parties. Each party bears its own expenses incurred in connection with the conciliation proceedings, including its legal costs (…

The ICSID Fact-Finding (Additional Facility) Rules offer parties the opportunity to constitute a Committee to inquire into and report on relevant circumstances in the pre-dispute phase. Their intent is to avoid legal disputes by providing an impartial assessment of facts arising in a contractual or…