VIAC Handbook – Rules of Arbitration and Mediation: A Practitioners Guide, Third Edition

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Overview

VIAC Handbook – Rules of Arbitration and Mediation, currently in its Third Edition, is a book written by leading arbitration and mediation experts from Austria and beyond, many actively involved in the institution. It provides detailed commentary on each provision, focusing on its practical application. Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2025, the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC) continues to enhance its position as one of the leading arbitral institutions globally with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe.

What’s in this book:

This Third Edition addresses recent questions from practitioners and significant changes to the rules since the 2018 edition. Key updates include:

expansion of VIAC’s authority to administer investment proceedings pursuant to the new VIAC Investment Rules;
revision of the mediation rules;
new and revised provisions regarding third-party funding, disclosure, use of digital technology, and costs;
a new model arbitration clause for intra-corporate disputes; and
special provisions for succession-related disputes.

The book also incorporates the Explanatory Notes prepared by the VIAC Secretariat, along with insights into the Secretariat’s day-to-day practice.

How this will help you:

The book would be highly beneficial due to its great practical utility as a Handbook during actual arbitral proceedings under the Vienna Rules, and will be of great value to corporate counsel, international lawyers, and arbitrators working in either civil law or common law frameworks, as well as to academics concerned with dispute resolution.

VIAC: The Premier International Arbitration Institution in Central and Eastern Europe

List of Abbreviations

Preface to the Third Edition of the VIAC Handbook

PART I

VIAC Rules of Arbitration

General Provisions

ARTICLE 1

VIAC and the Applicable Version of the Vienna Rules

Niamh Leinwather / Nikolaus Pitkowitz

ARTICLE 2

Board

Anton Baier / Lucia Raimanová

ARTICLE 3

Advisory Boards

Erich Schwarzenbacher

ARTICLE 4

Secretary General, Deputy Secretary General and Secretariat

Niamh Leinwather / Anna Förstel-Cherng / Elisabeth Vanas-Metzler

ARTICLE 5

Languages of Correspondence

Anna Förstel-Cherng / Klaudia Sood / Vladyslava Donchyk

ARTICLE 6

Definitions

Erich Schwarzenbacher

Commencement of the Arbitration

ARTICLE 7

Statement of Claim

Michael Hofstätter / Sarah Böck

ARTICLE 8

Answer to the Statement of Claim

Nikolaus Pitkowitz / Klaudia Sood

ARTICLE 9

Counterclaim

Nikolaus Pitkowitz / Sophie Tesarik

ARTICLE 10

Registration Fee

Niamh Leinwather / Nazli Morali

ARTICLE 11

Transmission of File

Wulf Gordian Hauser

ARTICLE 12

Written Communications, Time Limits and Disposal of File

Ulrike Gantenberg / Sophie Tesarik

ARTICLE 13

Representatives

Ulrike Gantenberg / Hanna Shalbanava

ARTICLE 13A

Third-Party Funding

Stavros Brekoulakis / Alice Fremuth-Wolf / Stefan Kröll / Stefan Riegler

Joinder of Third Parties and Consolidation

ARTICLE 14

Joinder of Third Parties

Paul Oberhammer / Christian Koller

ARTICLE 15

Consolidation

Paul Oberhammer / Christian Koller

Arbitral Tribunal

ARTICLE 16

General Provisions

Stefan Riegler / Filip Boras

ARTICLE 17

Constitution of the Arbitral Tribunal

Stefan Riegler / Filip Boras

ARTICLE 18

Constitution of the Arbitral Tribunal in Multi-Party Proceedings

Stefan Riegler / Filip Boras

ARTICLE 19

Confirmation of the Nomination

Stefan Riegler / Alexander Petsche

ARTICLE 20

Challenge of Arbitrators

Günther Horvath / Eliane Fischer / Désirée Prantl / Stephanie Rohmann

ARTICLE 21

Premature Termination of the Arbitrator’s Mandate

Günther Horvath / Eliane Fischer / Désirée Prantl / Stephanie Rohmann

ARTICLE 22

Effects of the Premature Termination of the Arbitrator’s Mandate

Günther Horvath / Eliane Fischer / Désirée Prantl / Stephanie Rohmann

Challenge of Experts

ARTICLE 23

Challenge of Experts

Thomas Klötzel / Karl Pörnbacher

Jurisdiction of the Arbitral Tribunal

ARTICLE 24

Jurisdiction of the Arbitral Tribunal

Gunnar Pickl

The Proceedings Before the Arbitral Tribunal

ARTICLE 25

Place of Arbitration

Lucia Raimanová / Zuzana Morhácová

ARTICLE 26

Language of the Proceedings

Veronika Korom

ARTICLE 27

Applicable Law, Amiable Compositeur

Daniel Busse

ARTICLE 28

Conduct of the Arbitration

Florian Haugeneder / Patrizia Netal

ARTICLE 29

Establishing the Facts of the Case

Florian Haugeneder / Patrizia Netal

ARTICLE 30

Oral Hearing

Franz T. Schwarz

ARTICLE 31

Duty to Object

Thomas Klötzel / Karl Pörnbacher

ARTICLE 32

Closure of the Proceedings and Time Limit for Rendering the Award