Presidium

The Presidium of the Arbitration Court consists of: a President, up to three vice-chairmen and up to four members. The Presidium has a mandate of five years.

Composition of the Presidium:

Aneta Antonova - President

Alexander Katzarsky - Vice-president

Ivaylo Dermendjiev - Vice-president

Georgi Atanassov - Member of the Presidium

Emanuela Balevska - Member of the Presidium

Tania Bouzeva - Member of the Presidium

Oleg Temnikov - Member of the Presidium

President of AC

The President represents the Court in the country and abroad, summons the sessions of the Presidium of the AC and of the Arbitration College, reports on the activities of the Court to the arbitration panel and the Board of the BCCI and executes the decisions of the Presidium.

Arbitrators

The arbitrators are enrolled and stroked off the list of arbitrators by a decision of the Presidium of the AC. A list for disputes between parties domiciled or seated in Bulgaria (internal disputes) is kept separately from the list for disputes between parties at least one of them being domiciled or seated abroad (international disputes).

Law graduates with no criminal record and have extensive professional experience in the field of domestic and international trade and business relations and the law governing them, are enrolled as arbitrators. Non-Bulgarian citizens may be arbitrators as well.

The arbitrators form an Arbitration College which:

• makes decisions on organisational matters of the court;
• discusses the President's report for the previous year and takes a decision on it;
• discusses the practice of the Court on the application of normative acts, common to domestic and international cases, with a view to its unification, and the decisions on this matter are binding for the arbitrators, if more than half of the arbitrators included in the list of arbitrators in domestic cases, are voted.

The AC settles the disputes submitted to it by an arbitral tribunal which consists either of three arbitrators or of one. Their rights and duties are equal.

The arbitrators on any dispute sign an affidavit of impartiality and independence which is sent to the parties to the dispute.

Secretariat

The secretaries of the AC have to be graduated in law, fluent in English, as well as one of the most widely spoken European languages. The secretaries organise the files of the cases, run the correspondence of the AC and perform those proceeding which are entrusted to them according to the Rules.