Board Member of Commodity Exchange Arbitration Court

April 19, 2017 JUDr. Martin SvatosPosted in Nezařazené

Dr. Martin Svatoš, Ph.D. has been elected as one of the seven board members of the Arbitration Court of the Czech Moravian Commodity Exchange, while Dr. Vit Horacek has been appointed as the president of said arbitration court.

The Arbitration Court of the Czech Moravian Commodity Exchange Kladno was established on the 1st January 1996 by the Czech Moravian Commodity Exchange Kladno on the basis of the provisions of Act No. 216/1994 Coll. On Arbitration Proceedings and on Enforcement of Arbitral Awards and § 28 of Act No. 229/1992 Coll. On Commodity Exchanges.

The Czech Moravian Commodity Exchange Kladno (CMKBK) has been in operation for two decades in the Czech Republic as an organiser of Stock Markets for energy, industrial and agricultural commodities. It represents a central market place for trading in electricity and natural gas to end customers and as a central market place for trading in timber.

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Martin is one of the leading Czech mediators and arbitrators. He has acted in more than 200 both international and domestic cases in mediation (listed by the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic and by the Energy Community). His experiences in alternative dispute resolution were appreciated when he became the President of the Working group of the ICC Czech Republic for mediation. Martin has acted in several arbitrations both as chairman, member of the tribunal and of counsel (listed as arbitrator by the VIAC, Arbitration Court of the Czech Football Association, Czech Arbitration Court and Czech Commodity Exchange Arbitration Court). Martin lectures at the Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) and at the Seminar of European and Comparative Law in Urbino (Italy). He has been visiting professor at the University of the French West Indies in Guadeloupe. He also gave a course at the Faculté Libre de Droit Institut Catholique de Toulouse, at the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia), at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (both PRC), Georgetown University (USA) and many others. In 2016, he acted as a member of the Czech delegation to the UNCITRAL WG II. He publishes and gives speeches at international conferences on regular basis. He is one of the co-editors of the EU Mediation Handbook (Kluwer International, 2017). As a speaker, he attended many international conferences all around the globe (the UIA World Forum of Mediation Centres, the IBA Annual Conference, the German Arbitration Institute Annual Conference, the Conference of the Mediators’ Institute of Ireland (Dublin) and YIAG conferences (Istanbul, Warsaw)...