جمعية المجمع العربي للوساطة والتحكيم في الملكية الفكرية

• The term “Arbitration agreement” means the agreement of the two parties to subject all conflicts initiated or might be initiated, or some of these conflicts to arbitration. The agreement may be in the form of a provision in a contract, or in an independent contract.
  
  
• The word “Plaintiff” refers to the party initiating the arbitration motion.
  
  
• The term “defendant” refers to the party targeted with the arbitration motion.
  
  
• The term “Arbitration Committee” includes an independent arbitrator or all the arbitrators in case more than one is delegated, and the word “Center” refers to the Arab Center for Mediation and Arbitration in Intellectual Property.
  
  
• The words used in the singular and dual modes mean the plural and vice versa, in accordance with the context.

• Arbitration is subject to these rules unless contrary to the applicable law for arbitration, and which the two parties can not disregard, and in this case preponderance is for the provision of law.
  
  
• The applicable law shall be defined in accordance with the provisions of Article (58) (B) of arbitration rules.

• Any warning or contact permissible by these rules shall be in writing and delivered via express mail or e-mail or any modern means of contact that can be substantiated.
  
  
• The Last place of residence or known business address of the party shall be considered the right address to send warnings or any other contact, unless the party sends a modification of address. In any case, sending warnings to the other party is permissible the way provided for in the agreement. In absence of this provision, warnings are sent in accordance with the practiced means of contact between the two parties.
  
  
• For the purposes of defining compliance with a period of grace, the warning is considered sent or transferred in case sent in accordance with paragraphs (A) and (B) of this Article prior to or on the day the end of the period of grace.
  
  
• For the purposes of computing a period of grace in accordance with these rules, the period validity begins as of the second day of receiving the warning or last contact. In case the last day in the period of grace is an official holiday day or a business holiday in the place of residence or the place of business of the receiver, the period of grace shall be extended until the first working day subsequent to the holiday. In computing, the period of grace includes official holidays and any other holidays.
  
  
• The two parties may agree to reduce the period of grace aforementioned in Articles (10), (15) (B), (16) (B), (17) (B), (18) (B), (19) (B/3), (40) (A), and (41) (A) of Arbitration rules.
  
  
• The Center may extend the period of grace aforementioned in Articles (10), (15) (B), (16) (B), (17) (B), (18) (B), (19) (B/3), (65) (D), (66)(H), (68) (H) of arbitration rules, in accordance with the request of one of the parties and upon its initiative.

• Each party presenting any written declaration to the Center in pursuant of Articles (6) and (36) of arbitration rules or permissible by these Articles, shall send a copy of it to the other party at the same time, until the Center delegates an Arbitration Committee.
  
  
• Each written declaration sent to the Center shall be sent this way with copy number adequate to provide each arbitrator and the Center with one bona fide copy.
  
  
• After the delegation of the Arbitration Committee by the Center, the parties shall any written information to the committee with one copy to the other party.
  
  
• The Arbitration Committee shall send a copy of all or any decision taken.

1. A motion to subject the conflict to arbitration in accordance with the rules and laws of the Center.
   
   
2. Names, addresses, telephone numbers, faxes, e-mails, or any other information allowing contact with the two parties.
   
   
3. A copy of the arbitration agreement and any independent provision regarding the applicable law, when necessary.
   
   
4. Brief description of the nature of conflict declaring the concerned funds the nature of any concerned technology.
   
   
5. A declaration, within possible limits, of the amounts claimed.
   
   
6. Any delegation of an arbitrator or arbitrators provided for by Articles from (14) to (20) of arbitration rules, or any notes the plaintiff considers useful and related to these Articles.

• The two parties may be represented by people of their own choice, regardless of their nationality or professional qualifications, and the Center, the other party, and the arbitration committee shall be informed of their names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mails, faxes, or any other information that allows contact with those representatives.
  
  
• Each party shall guarantee to allow its representatives the necessary time to enable the initiation of arbitration as soon as possible.
  
  
• The two parties may be assisted by people of their own choice.

• In case the two parties have not agreed upon the arbitrator or the arbitrators, contrary to the provisions of Articles from (16) to (20) of arbitration rules, that procedure shall be followed.
  
  
• In case the arbitration committee was not formed in accordance with that procedure within the period of grace agreed upon, or within (45) day as of the initiation of arbitration in case the two parties have not agreed on such a period of grace, the arbitration committee shall be formed or complemented according to case and in accordance with Article (19) of arbitration rules.

• In case of delegating one sole Arbitrator, the two parties together shall delegate the arbitrator.
  
  
• In case the delegation of the sole arbitrator during the period of grace agreed upon herein, or in (30) after the initiation of arbitration, in case the two parties have not agreed on such a period of grace, the delegation of the sole arbitrator shall be delegated in accordance with Article (19) of arbitration rules.

• In case the issue is regarding the delegation of three arbitrators and the two parties have not agreed upon the delegation procedures, the delegation of arbitrators shall be delegated in accordance with this Article.
  
  
• The plaintiff shall delegate an arbitrator in the arbitration motion. The defendant shall delegate an arbitrator in (30) days as of the day of receiving the arbitration motion. The two delegated arbitrators shall delegate a third in (20) days as of the delegation of the second arbitrator. The third arbitrator shall be the chairman of the arbitration committee.
  
  
• In case the delegation of one of the arbitrators in the period of grace aforementioned failed, the delegation of that arbitrator shall be done in accordance with Article (19) of Arbitration rules.

1. (A) the following Cases:
   
   1. When the issue is regarding the delegation of three arbitrators
      
      
   2. The two parties have not agreed upon the delegation procedure
      
      
   3. The arbitration motion mentioned more that one plaintiff; the defendants shall delegate an arbitrator in their arbitration motion. The second arbitrator and the arbitrator assuming chairman of the arbitration committee in accordance with Article (17) of arbitration rules by case with consideration to the provisions of Clause (B) of this Article.
      
2. (B) The following Cases :
   
   1. In case the issue was regarding the delegation of three arbitrators
      
      
   2. And the two parties have not agreed upon the delegation procedure
      
      
   3. The arbitration motion mentioned more than one defendant
      
      
      The defendants together shall delegate an arbitrator. In case they failed, for any reason, to delegate an arbitrator in 30 days as of the receiving the arbitration motion, any former delegation of arbitrators shall be null and void, and the Center shall delegate the two concerned arbitrators. The two delegated arbitrators, delegated accordingly, shall, in 30 days as of the delegation of the second arbitrator, delegate a third arbitrator as a chairman of the Arbitration Committee.
      
3. In the following Cases :
   1. In case the issue was regarding the delegation of three arbitrators
      
      
   2. And the two parties have not agreed upon the delegation procedure
      
      
   3. The arbitration motion mentioned more than one defendant or defendant

The two Clauses (A) and (B) of this Article shall be applied notwithstanding of Article (15) (A) of Arbitration and regardless of any contractual provisions mentioned in the arbitration agreement regarding the delegation procedures unless these provisions explicitly excluded the motion of this Article.

• (A) In case one party fails to delegate as provided for by Article (15), (17), and (18) of arbitration rules, the Center shall delegate, on behalf of that party, perform the delegation immediately.
  
  
• In case the delegation of the sole arbitrator, who shall preside the Arbitration Committee, fails, as provided for by Articles (15), (16), (17), and (18) of Arbitration rules, delegation shall be done in accordance with the following:

The Center shall send to each party a list of nominees. The list shall include at least the names of three nominees in alphabetical order. The list shall also include a declaration of each nominee’s qualifications or annexed with that declaration, and in case the two parties have agreed upon certain qualifications, the list shall include only the names of those nominees satisfying these qualifications.

Each party is entitled to exclude any name opposing his/her nomination, and shall number the remaining names according to preference.

Each party shall return the list to the Center in (2) days as of its reception. Each party failing to send the list to the Center after marking it in that period is considered approving all the nominees mentioned in the list.

The Center, upon reception of the two lists from the two parties, or the end of the period mentioned in the aforementioned Clause, shall summon one of the people mentioned in the list, as expedient as possible, to be the sole arbitrator, or the arbitrator being the chairman of the Arbitration Committee, with consideration to what the two parties have expressed of preference and objection.

In case the two lists returned to the Center fail to mention a person accepted by the two parties as an arbitrator, the Center shall delegate the arbitrator presiding the Arbitration Committee, and the Center shall perform that too in case a person fails to accept the Center’s nomination of the chairman of the Arbitration Committee, in case he/she did not wish to, or in case of other causes denying that person to be the sole Arbitrator or the arbitrator being the Chairman of the Arbitration Committee and the list fails to have any remaining names accepted by the two parties.

• (D) Notwithstanding of the provisions of Clause (B), the Center shall delegate the sole arbitrator or the arbitrator assuming the Chairman of the Arbitration Committee in case deemed, as it has jurisdiction over the subject matter, that the procedure detailed herein is not appropriate for the case.

• The arbitrator shall be non-biased and independent
  
  
• Each selected arbitrator shall disclose, prior to delegation, to the two parties, to the Center, and to any other arbitrator formerly delegated, any reasonably suspicious conditions regarding no-biasness and independence of the arbitrator, or proves, in writing, non-availability of such conditions.
  
  
• In case new conditions that may raise reasonable doubts regarding the biasness or the independence of any of the arbitrators arise at any stage of arbitration, the arbitrator shall disclose these conditions to the parties, the Center, and to the other arbitrators, without delay.

• (A) Each party may request to dismiss any of the arbitrators in case of conditions with reasonable doubt regarding the biasness or independence of the arbitrator
  
  
• (B) No party shall request to dismiss any arbitrator he/she nominated or contributed to his/her delegation except for reasons realized after delegation.

• (A) The Center shall decide the arbitration place Subject to conditions of arbitration and any observation from the parties, unless the parties come to an alternative agreement.
  
  
• The Arbitration Committee after consultation with the two parties shall hold hearings for in any place deemed appropriate, and shall initiate negotiation whenever deemed appropriate.
  
  
• The arbitration Decision is deemed taken in the place of arbitration.

• (A) The Arabic language shall be the language of the arbitration agreement unless provided for otherwise in the arbitration agreement.
  
  
• (B) The arbitration committee may issue demands for other documents presented to be in languages other than the Arabic language annexed with partial or complete translation to the language of arbitration.

(B) The initiatory pleading shall include a comprehensive declaration of the events and legal evidence supporting the pleading, including a display of the subject matter of the pleading.

(C) The initiatory pleading is attached with the maximum amount of evidence documents the plaintiff is supporting the case with, including a list of these documents. In case the evidence documents are so many, the plaintiff shall add a reference to the availability of more evidence documents he/she is willing to present.

• (A) The defendant shall send a pleading to the plaintiff and the Arbitration Committee in (3) days as of informing the Center of the establishment of the Arbitration Committee with consideration to the period terminating last.
  
  
• (B) The pleading of the defendant shall respond to the elements of the initiatory pleading provided for by Article (40) (B). The defendant pleading is attached the defendant’s evidence documents as provided for by Article (40) (C).
  
  
• The defendant shall present any defense and/or a clearance motion in the defense pleading, and shall, under some exceptional circumstances, do that at a later stage of the arbitration procedures in case the Arbitration Committee decides that. Each defense and/or a clearance motion shall include the same elements provided for Article (4) (B) and (C).

• (A) In case of presenting a counter pleading or a clearance motion, the plaintiff shall respond to the elements of that motion. Article (40) (A) and (B) is applied for that with the necessary replacement.
  
  
• (B) The Arbitration Committee may, as it has jurisdiction, allow the presentation of additional written information, or request that.

The Arbitration Committee may, upon the motion of one of the parties, order the other party to present a security, the form specified for the motion or the counter motion in order to cover all costs aforementioned in Article (69) of arbitration rules, in case of deeming exceptional circumstances.

Measure and precautions provided for herein may define the form of the temporary arbitration decision.

Any motion presented by one of the parties to a judicial authority to take temporary measures or to impose a security for the motion or the counter motion or to implement the measures and the orders the arbitration committee deemed, shall not be contrary to the arbitration agreement or waiving the right of holding to that agreement.

• (A) The Arbitration Committee shall decide the acceptance of the evidence and its relation to the subject matter, materiality, and power.
  
  
• (B) The Arbitration Committee may, upon the motion of one of the parties or in its own initiative, order one of the parties, at any time during arbitration, to present what is deemed appropriate of documents and other evidence, and may also order one of the parties to deposit under its disposition or under the disposition of an expert or the other party any document and/or evidence, and/or fund, possession or under disposition, for the purpose of examination or investigation.

For the purposes of this Article, the word “experiments” refers to the test and other investigation process.

1. A preliminary technical reference summarizing up the scientific background information or other specialized information necessary to thoroughly understand the issues subject matter of the conflict.
   
   
2. The models and drawings or other material needed for the Arbitration Committee or the two parties as a reference in one of the sessions.

• (A) For the purposes of this Article, secret information shall indicate any of the following kinds of information, regardless of the means used to express them:
  • Information possessed by one party.
  • Information not available for public.
  • Information with commercial, financial, or industrial value.
  • Any information the possessing party deems secret.
    
• (B) The party maintaining to the secrecy of any information and wishing to present or shall present this information during arbitration shall request the consideration of this information secret in accordance with a warning directed to the Arbitration Committee with a copy for the other party. The party shall explain in the warning the causes that entail considering the information secret without disclosing the content.
  
  
• (C) The Arbitration Committee shall decide in the matter of considering the information secret in case this information implies, regarding nature, the preponderance of grave damage to the party holding to its secrecy in case protective measures, especially during the arbitration procedures, have not been taken. In case the Arbitration Committee decided that, it shall define the circumstances whereof some or all of this information to be disclosed, and the people to whom this information shall be disclosed, and shall demand each person disclosed this information to sign a pledge of keeping the secrecy of the information.
  
  
• (D) In some exceptional circumstances and instead of the Arbitration Committee deciding the secrecy of the information and whether this information implies, regarding nature, grave damage to the party maintaining it in case the protective measure are not taken during arbitration, the Arbitration Committee shall, upon the motion of one of the parties or upon its own initiative and after consultation with the two parties, delegate a consultant for the secret issues deciding the matter of secrecy of the information and defining. In this case, the circumstances whereof some or all of this information shall be disclosed and the people to whom this information shall be disclosed, and the Committee shall request each consultant to sign a pledge of maintaining the secrecy of this information.
  
  
• (E) The Arbitration Committee may also, upon the motion of one of the parties or upon its own initiative, delegate a consultant for the secret issues as an expert in accordance with Article (54) of arbitration rules, provided that the consultant not disclose this information to the party not issuing the information, or to the Arbitration Committee on the basis of the secrecy of this information.

• (A) A session is convened for the Arbitration Committee to present evidence with the testimony of witnesses including expert witness or a verbal statement or both, and incase such a motion is not presented, the Arbitration Committee shall decide the necessity of convening such a session(s) in case one of the parties requested that. In case sessions are not convened, the procedures shall be initiated on the basis of the other documents.
  
  
• (B) In case the sessions are convened, the Arbitration Committee shall inform the two parties at a time early enough of the date, the time, and the place the session are convened.
  
  
• (C) All Arbitration sessions shall be secret.
  
  
• (D) The Arbitration Committee shall decide the issue of preparing minutes for any session and the form of those minutes in case decided its preparation.

• (A) The Arbitration Committee may request any party to present the identity of the witnesses wishing to summon and the subject matter of the testimony and his/her relation to the subject matter of the conflict.
  
  
• (B) The Arbitration Committee may, as it has jurisdiction, limit the presence of any witness, whether he/she is a witness of events or of expert, or reject his/her presence for justified causes.
  
  
• (C) Each party may cross-examine the witness presenting a verbal testimony. The Arbitration Committee may ask questions at any stage of hearing the witnesses’ testimony.
  
  
• (D) The witnesses’ testimony may be presented in writing, upon the choice of one of the parties or the recommendation of the Arbitration Committee, whether this was done in signed deposition, or affidavits or others. In this case, the Arbitration Committee may suspend the testimony providing the presence of the witnesses for verbal statement.
  
  
• (E) Each party shall be responsible for the operational organization of any witness subpoena, the cost of presence and the possibility of his/her presence.
  
  
• (F) The Arbitration Committee shall decide the necessity of withdrawal of any witness during any part of the procedures, especially other witnesses with their testimony.

• (A) The Arbitration Committee may, after consultation with the two parties, delegate an independent expert or more to present a report about certain issues defined. And the Arbitration Committee shall send to the two parties a copy of the reference of the expert delegated Subject to any notes presented by the parties, and each expert delegated this way shall be requested to sign a pledge of secrecy of information.
  
  
• (B) Subject to Article (51) of arbitration rules, the Arbitration Committee shall, upon the reception of expert’s report, send a copy of it to the two parties, allowing them the opportunity to express opinion of the report in writing, and each party may cross-examine any document the report depended on in the report.
  
  
• (C) Upon the request of one of the two parties, each party shall be allowed the opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses in one of the sessions. In this session, both parties may summon expert witnesses to present testimony about the issues subject matter of the conflict.
  
  
• (D) The opinion of any expert in the issue or the issues presented is subject to the authority of the Arbitration Committee.

• (A) In case the plaintiff fails to present his/her pleading in accordance with Article (40) of arbitration rules, without reasonable cause, the Arbitration Committee shall terminate the arbitration procedures.
  
  
• (B) In case the defendant fails to present his/her defense pleading in accordance with Article (41) of arbitration rules, without justifiable cause, the Arbitration Committee, regardless of that, shall continue the procedures of arbitration.
  
  
• (C) The Arbitration Committee may resume the arbitration procedures in case one of the parties fails to use the opportunity allowed to recount the case in the period the arbitration Committee defined without legitimate cause.
  
  
• (D) The arbitration Committee shall conclude whatever it deems appropriate in case one of the parties fails to comply with any ruling or condition in this system or to any regulation given by the arbitration Committee without legitimate cause.

• (A) The arbitration Committee shall declare the conclusion of the procedures upon the conviction that one of the two parties had an appropriate opportunity to present the written and the verbal information and the evidence.
  
  
• (B) The arbitration Committee shall decide, in exceptional circumstances, reopening the procedures concluded at any time prior to taking the decision of arbitration.

• (A) The Arbitration Committee shall apply, to the subject conflict, the legal rules agreed upon by the two parties, and in case they agree on the motion of a law of a certain country, the objective rule herein shall be applied without the special rules in case of law conflict.
  
  
• (B) In case the two parties fail to agree on the applicable legal rules to the subject conflict, the Arbitration Committee shall apply the objective arbitration rules that are deemed to be the closest to the conflict.
  
  
• (C) In all cases, the Arbitration Committee shall take into consideration, when resolving the subject conflict, the conditions of the contract of the subject conflict, the common practices in the kind of treatment, the practiced customs and the common practice between the two parties.
  
  
• (D) The Arbitration Committee may, in case the two parties explicitly agree to authorize it with the conciliation, resolve the conflict subject matter in accordance with the rules of justice and equity without being subject to the provisions of law.

• (A) The Arbitration may take preliminary, temporary, precautionary, partial or final decisions.
  
  
• (B) The arbitration decision shall be issued in writing including date of issuance, names of the parties, their representatives, names and titles of the arbitrators, in addition to the place of arbitration in accordance with Article (38) (A) of arbitration rules.
  
  
• (C) The arbitration decision shall show the cause based on, unless the two parties agree upon non-justifying it, and the applicable law fails to provide for the declaration of such causes.
  
  
• (D) The arbitrator(s) shall sign the decision, and the signature of the majority of arbitrators or the arbitrator assuming the chairman of the Arbitration Committee in the case mentioned in the second clause of Article (59) of arbitration rules. In case one of the arbitrators fails to sign, the cause shall be included in the arbitration decision.
  
  
• (E) The Arbitration Committee may consult the Center in the formal issues, especially for guaranteeing the possibility of implementing the arbitration decision.
  
  
• (F) The Arbitration Committee shall inform the Center of the decision with a number of original copies enough to provide one copy for each party and the arbitrator(s), or the Center. The Center shall officially inform each party and the arbitrator(s) of the arbitration decision with original copies.
  
  
• (G) Upon the request of one of the parties, the Center shall provide for that party a copy of the arbitration decision, approved by the Center, in return for the cost entailed. Each copy approved this way shall be satisfying to the provisions of Article (4) (1) and (A) New York Agreement regarding the acknowledgement and implementation of Foreign Arbitration Decisions, dated June 10, 1958.

• (A) The pleading and the declaration of concluding the procedures shall be conducted during the period not exceeding (9) months as of the reception of the defense pleading or the establishment of the Arbitration Committee, whichever happened later, whenever that is possible within reasonable limits. The arbitration decision shall be taken in the (3) succeeding months, whenever that is possible within reasonable limits.
  

• (A) The Arbitration Committee may suggest that the two parties consider settlement at any time deemed appropriate.
  
  
• (B) In case the two parties agree to settle the conflict before the arbitration decision is taken, the Arbitration Committee shall terminate arbitration, and shall confirm the settlement on the form of an arbitration decision with the agreement of the two parties in case they both requested so, and the Arbitration Committee does not have to justify an arbitration decision of this kind.
  
  
• (C) The arbitrator(s) shall sign the arbitration decision with the agreement of the two parties, or the order of the termination of arbitration in accordance with Article (60) of arbitration rules.
  
  
• (D)  The Arbitration Committee shall inform the Center of that decision with a number of copies enough to provide a copy for each party, arbitrator(s) and the Center. The Center shall send an original copy of the arbitration decision with the agreement of the parties or of the order to terminate the arbitration to each party, arbitrator(s).

• (A) Each party is entitled, within 30 days subsequent to the reception of the arbitration decision, to request from the Arbitration Committee, by a warning sent to the Committee and a copy to the Center and the other party, to amend any spelling or mathematical errors in the arbitration decision. In case the Arbitration Committee deems the motion justifiable, it shall conduct the amendment in (30) days subsequent to the reception of the motion. Each amendment shall take the form of a separate memo signed by the Arbitration Committee in accordance with Article (6) (B) of arbitration rules and this shall be part of the arbitration decision.
  
  
• (B) The Arbitration Committee is entitled to amend any error of the kind mentioned in Clause (A) upon its own initiative within (30) days subsequent to the issuance of the decision of the Arbitration Committee.
  
  
• (C) Each party is entitled, within 30 days subsequent to the reception of the arbitration decision, to request from the Committee, with a warning sent to the Committee and the Center, to take an additional decision regarding motions filed during the arbitration procedures but were not considered in the arbitration decision. Prior to ruling in that motion, the Arbitration Committee shall allow the opportunity for the two parties to present their say. In case the Committee deems the motion justifiable, it shall take an additional decision within (60) days as of the reception of the motion, whenever that was possible and within the reasonable limits.

• (A) The arbitration motion is subject to registration fees payable to the Center in accordance with the table of fees, charges and cost applicable up to the date of receiving the motion at the Center.
  
  
• (B) Registration fees shall not be reimbursed.
  
  
• (C) The Center shall not take any measures to the motion of arbitration until the registration fees are paid.
  
  
• (D) In case the plaintiff fails to pay the registration fees within (15) subsequent to reminding them in writing for the second time by the Center, he/she shall be considered withdrawing the motion for arbitration.

• (A) The Center shall define the amount of charges for arbitrators in light of the table of fees, charges, and cost applicable, and way and time of payment.
  
  
• (B) The arbitrators’ charges are defined within the limits of the minimum and the maximum charges stated in the table of fees and charges applicable at the time of initiating arbitration with consideration to the time decided necessary by the arbitrators for initiating arbitration, the amount subject of the conflict, the complexity of the conflict, the expeditious nature of the case, and any other condition concerning the case.

• (A) Upon the reception of the warning from the Center establishing the Arbitration Committee, the plaintiff and the defendant shall deposit two equal amounts defined by the Center as an advance to the arbitration charges mentioned in Article (69) of arbitration rules.
  
  
• (B) The Center shall demand the two parties to deposit an additional amount during arbitration.
  
  
• (C) In case the deposits demanded are not paid in full within (30) days as of the reception a warning, the Center shall inform the two parties of that in order for one of them to pay the required amount.
  
  
• (D) In case the amount of the counter motion exceeds the amount requested by the motion, or entails the investigation of some issues that are essentially different from the motion, or in the case of special conditions, the Center shall decide, as it has jurisdiction, two separate deposits for the motion and the counter motion. In case of deciding two separate deposits, the plaintiff shall pay the entire deposit for the motion and the defendant shall pay the amount for the counter motion.
  
  
• (E) In case one of the parties fails to deposit the amount required within (15) days subsequent to a second written reminder by the Center, he/she is considered withdrawing the motion or the counter motion.
  
  
• (F) Upon taking the Arbitration decision, the Center shall, in accordance with the arbitration decision, present an account statement to the parties for the deposits received, returning the balance not spent, and demanding any additional amount(s) due.

• (A) The Arbitration Committee shall define, in its decision, the arbitration charges, including the following:
  Arbitrators’ charges.
  
  Transportation, communication, and other allowances the arbitrators spent the appropriate way.
  Experience charges and other assistance the Arbitration Committee entails in accordance with these rules.
  Other direct and necessary expenses to initiate arbitration, such as the cost of conference and session rooms
  
  
• (B) The aforementioned costs shall be, as much as possible, covered by the deposits required in accordance with Article (68) of arbitration rules.
  
  
• (C) The Arbitration Committee shall distribute the arbitration charges and the registration and administration fees of the Center between the parties in light of all the circumstances and the result of arbitration, with consideration to any agreement between the parties.

1. Disclosure of what is admissible by law.
   
   
2. With the presentation of the disclosure and its causes to the Arbitration Committee and the other party, in case the disclosure is done during arbitration, or to the other party alone, in case the disclosure is done after the concluding arbitration.

• (A) Further to any specific measures admissible by Article (51) of arbitration rules, each written document presented or any other document presented by one of the parties or the witnesses during arbitration shall have a secret nature. Within the limits of information provided by that document, not included in the public property, any party reviewing the document by participating in arbitration shall not use this document or disclose it to a third party for any purpose without the prior consent of the other party or with a with competent jurisdiction court order.
  
  
• (B) For the purposes of this Article, the witness summoned by any of the parties shall not be a third party. Within the limits of the witness familiarization of evidence or other information during arbitration to prepare for testimony, the party summoning the witness shall be liable for his/her commitment to the secrecy necessary for that party.

1. The consent of two parties.
   
   
2. In case the arbitration decision is included in the public property as a result of a lawsuit in front of a national court or other socialized authority.
   
   
3. In case disclosure is subject to a legal condition imposed on one party, or to establish legal rights for one party against the other, or to protect these rights.

• (A) The Center and the arbitrator shall comply with the secrecy of arbitration and the arbitration decision and to the secrecy of any written or any other document disclosed during arbitration within the limits of that document regarding information not included in the public property, except what is necessary due to the connection to a lawsuit filed to the judiciary regarding the decision of arbitration or in accordance with the provisions of law in other cases, unless the two parties come to an alternative agreement.
  
  
• (B) Notwithstanding of Clause (A), the Center may include information regarding arbitration in comprehensive statistics published regarding activities, provided this information does not allow the identification of the two parties or the circumstances peculiar to the conflict.