Common use of Procedures of the Arbitration Panel Clause in Contracts

Procedures of the Arbitration Panel. 1. Unless otherwise specified in this Agreement or agreed between the Parties to the dispute, the procedures of the arbitration panel shall be governed by Model Rules of Procedures which shall be adopted by the Joint Committee within one year from the date of entry into force of this Agreement. 2. The arbitration panel shall examine the matter referred to it in the request for the establishment of an arbitration panel in light of the relevant provisions of this Agreement interpreted in accordance with rules of interpretation of public international law. 3. Unless the Parties to the dispute agree otherwise, the arbitration panel shall decide on the place of the hearings. The hearings of the arbitration panel shall be open to the public, unless the Parties to the dispute agree otherwise. 4. Decisions of the arbitration panel shall be taken by a majority of the members. Any member may furnish separate opinions on matters not unanimously agreed. The arbitration panel shall not disclose which members are associated with majority or minority opinions. 5. The arbitration panel may, at the request of any Party to the dispute, allow one or more Parties to be joined in the arbitration as a Party to the dispute, unless the arbitration panel finds, after giving all Parties, including the Party to be joined, the opportunity to be heard, that joinder should not be permitted because of prejudice to any of those Parties. The arbitration panel may give a single ruling or several rulings in respect of all Parties so involved in the arbitration.