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The development of alternative methods of dispute resolution is one of the priorities of our state, which derives from both the Government five-year programme and the strategy of reforming judicial and legal disputes. In this context, from the viewpoint of promoting the settlement of disputes through arbitration, it is important to review the legal regulations, to clarify some ambiguities in the current legislation. In this context, it is proposed to make amendments to the draft on Commercial Arbitration and to the RA Civil Procedure Code: the RA Deputy Minister of Justice Armenuhi Harutyunyan stated this, presenting the legislative package for debate in the first reading on March 22. The drafts propose to define the minimum grounds for challenging the arbitrator, the availability of an application for annulment of the arbitration award in the court when examining the application for issuing a writ of execution for the enforcement of the arbitration award. It is proposed to make corrections of some terms and clarifications of regulations in the draft law on Commercial Arbitration and the RA Civil Procedure Code.

The draft was debated in the NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs and was endorsed.

The legislative package was adopted in the first reading.

The bills debated the previous day were also passed.