OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration releases its Annual Report 2021

The OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration has published its annual report for the year 2021. The reports gives an overview of institutional matters and the activities undertaken throughout the year, with a glimpse on financial and administrative matters.

The highlights of last year’s activities  were the intervention of Emmanuel Decaux, President of the Court, and Erkki Kourula, Vice-President, at the 60th meeting of the Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law of the Council of Europe (CAHDI) in March 2021 as well as the seminar organized by the Swedish OSCE Chairpersonship in June 2021 on the opportunities offered by the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration in the realm of conflict resolution. 

The report also gives account of the second edition of the moot court organized by the Faculty of Law of the University in Ljubljana, where students and future jurists got familiarized with the arbitral proceedings as featured by the Convention on Conciliation and Arbitration.

The Court of Conciliation and Arbitration provides a set of mechanisms for the peaceful settlement of disputes between States. The Court was established by the Convention of Stockholm, which entered into force on 5 December 1994. To date, 34 States have ratified the Convention.