Conference on Online Dispute
Resolution (ODR) for
Cross-Border E-Commerce Transactions
The Association for International Arbitration (AIA)
invite you to attend their conference on the 18th of September at
the Institute for European Studies, “Rome Room” located in Pleinlaan 5, 1050,
Brussels, Belgium. Speakers from the Commission, the European Parliament
and BEUC (the consumer’s organisation) will be present and will take the floor.
The driving force for the creation and development of
ODR (Online Dispute Resolution) schemes has always been commerce. The Internet
has been recognized worldwide as a commercial trading platform where people
increasingly conduct their commercial transactions.
The discussion will include a compendious, yet
essential reference to e-commerce issues. The rapid expansion of e-commerce has
led private and public institutions and corporations to deploy their
initiatives, aimed at providing specialised redress to both consumers and
businesses, in situations where disputes arise out of online transactions.
More specifically, EU legislation will constitute an
essential element of this analysis; the new Regulation No 524/2013
of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on online
dispute resolution for consumer disputes and the new Directive 2013/11/EU of
the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on alternative
dispute resolution for consumer disputes and the respective changes in ODR will
be addressed. These legal instruments aim at ensuring that consumers can
recourse to a simple, expeditious and low-cost online dispute resolution
method.
The
UNCITRAL’s draft procedural rules for online dispute resolution for
cross-border electronic transactions will also be discussed. According to the Report of the UNCITRAL’s Working Group III concerning ODR,
the Rules will mainly aim at disputes arising out of
consumer-to-consumer transactions. It is disputed whether an arbitration stage
will be included in ODR schemes or not.
Furthermore,
a thorough analysis will be conducted, concerning the consumer’s point of view
and perspective and the respective implications of the above-mentioned
legislation upon the e-commerce transactions.
For more
information please visit the AIA website and fill in their registration form
