Panel of Mediators in Conciliation Proceedings at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation

The Panel of Mediators was instituted under the aegis of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in May, 2006, considering its above-mentioned functions and also in view of fact that it is an organization where the interests of all segments of the business community converge and which extends its influence across all areas of business.

Mediation is a procedure when the person or the panel of persons renders to the parties an independent and impartial assistance in their effort to achieve the peaceful arrangement of their dispute.

Although the mediation as well as the arbitration proceedings refers to the group of the alternative ways of the dispute settlement, the conciliation procedure is greatly different from the arbitral one as from the point of view of the grounds and procedures as the final result.

The agreement about the dispute settlement is made by consent and is not imposed by the mediator. It can consider different circumstances, not only connected with the  disputable contract, but also the new further cooperating obligations which would be more convenient for the parties and potentially executed by them.

The continuing legislation doesn’t hinder the leading of the conciliation procedures. Alongside with that the project of the Federal Law «About the conciliation procedures with the participation of the mediator “mediation”» by the working group was prepared at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the further legitimating of the mediation attempts. It is partly based on the model law of United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, recommended by the UN General assembly to the states-members of the UNO in 2002 as the sample for the adoption of the national laws on its bases.