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The Permanent Court of Arbitration: Current Developments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2009

Bette E. Shifman
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This contribution is intended to update the author's recent contribution to this Journal concerning current developments at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA). Developments since the publication of that article primarily concern the PCA Financial Assistance Fund and the work of the Steering Committee. In addition, the International Bureau is currently serving as Registrar in three arbitrations initiated pursuant to the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, and has assumed a pivotal role in fostering contact and an exchange of views among international lawyers and jurists in The Netherlands.

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Permanent Court of Arbitration
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , Autumn 1995 , pp. 433 - 438
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Copyright © Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law 1995

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References

1. Shifman, B.E., Vie Permanent Court of Arbitration: Recent Developments, 8 LJIL 193 (1995).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2. Id., at 196 and 197.

3. Id., at 197, 200, and 201.

4. The International Bureau is headed by the Secretary-General. It has custody of the archives, conducts all of the Court's day-to-day administrative business, and serves as registry for the PCA. It has its offices at the Peace Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands.

5. UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, adopted 28 April 1976. See Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the Work of its Ninth Session, 31 UN GAOR Supp. (No. 17), at paras. 56–57, UN Doc. A/31/17 (1976), reproduced in 15ILM 701 (1976).

6. The Administrative Council is the governing body of the PCA. It is composed of the diplomatic representatives accredited to The Hague of the 80 Contracting Powers. Its president is ex officio the Netherlands Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Council decides any questions of administration that may arise with regard to the operations of the Court and oversees the functioning of the International Bureau.

7. See Permanent Court of Arbitration Financial Assistance Fund: Terms of Reference and Guidelines, reproduced in 94 PCA Annual Report 63 (1994).

8. E.g., good offices, commissions of inquiry (fact-finding), mediation, and conciliation.

9. See PCA Annual Report, supra note 7, at 63 (para. 5). DAC stands for Development Assistance Company.

10. Id., at 65 (para. 11).

11. Shifman, supra note 1, at 196.

12. Resolution II, paragraph 2, of the Conference of Members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration held in The Hague in September 1993.

13. Records of these meetings have not been published.

14. Id.

15. See, e.g., PCA Annual Report, supra note 7, at 15 (1994).

16. UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, supra note 5, Arts. 6 and 7,38 and 39. See, generally, H. Jonkman, The Role of the Secretary-General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration Under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, 8 LJIL 185 (1995).

17. See, e.g., PCA Annual Report, supra note 7, at 13.

18. A second such reception was organized on 12 September 1995 at the Peace Palace in The Hague.Prof. Dr P.H. Kooijmans spoke on the topic ‘The Future of Peacekeeping’.